Little is known about incidents of bias specific to college classrooms or how they are handled by instructors. To learn more about this subject, professors, graduate instructors, and undergraduates (N ! 2,523) completed surveys assessing perceptions of classroom bias. Results indicated that about a quarter of instructors and half of students perceived an incident of bias in a classroom in the l...

This article presents a social and collaborative model for content enrichment in Ubiquitous Learning Environments. Designed as a loosely coupled software architecture, the proposed model was implemented and integrated into the Classroom eXperience, a multimedia capture platform for educational environments. After automatically recording a lecture in instrumented classrooms, students and instruc...

Grounded in the dimensional model of national culture, the purpose of this literature review was to investigate (a) the cultural impact of globalization on online instruction (in particular Eastern and Western beliefs and values), (b) the knowledge needed by curriculum developers (i.e., instructional designers and online instructors) to create multicultural appropriate content, (c) the identifi...

The aims of this study were to assess agreement among instructors in scoring preclinical dental procedures, the effect of this agreement on grades, and factors associated with agreement and grades differences. Twenty-six instructors from five clinical specialties participated in a scoring exercise at the College of Dentistry, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in January 2015. Instructors blin...

introduction. evaluation is one of the characteristic issues of education process and help us to assess deficiency and powerty of education programs and solve the problems of education. methods. in this study a proper questionnaire was distributed and answered by instructors. then information was analyzed by spss software. results. in this study 72.5% of instructors used formative evaluation an...

Knowledge surveys provide a means to assess changes in specific content learning and intellectual development. More importantly, they promote student learning by improving course organization and planning. For instructors, the tool establishes a high degree of instructional alignment, and, if properly used, can insure employment of all seven ―best practices‖ during the enactment of the course. ...

ARCADE is a distance learning platform based on international standards and specifications in the areas of e-learning, object-oriented development, reusable knowledge and information exchange. The Unified Software Development Process and UML were consistently applied in the project. ARCADE was developed in two stages – the courseware delivery features were implemented first, and then, in a seco...

a. Cleavage In vertebrates, cell division is radial and indeterminate. The first mitotic cell divisions that follow fertilization occur rapidly and are not accompanied by cell growth. The In many animals (mammals are an exception), the zygote has a definite polarity. As a result, the cleavage divisions create cells that differ in their cytoplasmic contents (e.g., cytoplasmic determinants: mRNAs...

Higher education instructors tried to find best teaching ways during the pandemic. Instructors who were faced with emergency situations used various technologies deliver their courses. In this study, an online survey was ask about experiences regarding development of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) remote (ERT); 231 responses received from faculties education. The a five-poi...