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Evolution is a core concept of biology, and yet many college biology students do not accept evolution because of their religious beliefs. However, we do not currently know how instructors perceive their role in helping students accept evolution or how they address the perceived conflict between religion and evolution when they teach evolution. This study explores instructor practices and belief...

INTRODUCTION Professional values are standards of behavior for performance that provide a framework for appraising beliefs and attitudes that influence behavior. Development of professional values has been a continuous and long process and it is influenced by different factors. The aim of this study is "assessing different factors influencing development of professional values among nursing stu...

1 Kurt Gramoll, University of Oklahoma, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Norman, OK 73019 [email protected] Abstract A scalable Internet portal to assist teaching statics and dynamics is presented (www.ecourses.ou.edu). Each instructor can set up their own Internet class where students can view lectures, review course material, complete homework, access examples, post questions and complete t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore students’ perceptions and views of the instructors, in relation to information and communications technology (ICT) education in library and information science (LIS) programs. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was carried out among students from the two LIS departments in Kuwait. A focus group was conducted with faculty member...

Biological problems in the twenty-first century are complex and require mathematical insight, often resulting in mathematical models of biological systems. Building mathematical-biological models requires cooperation among biologists and mathematicians, and mastery of building models. A new course in mathematical modeling presented the opportunity to build both content and process learning of m...

Abstract Date Presented 04/01/2022 Many OT education programs globally depend on visiting instructors. The teaching approaches of the instructors may differ from context in which they will teach. This study explores influence learning a South Asian program. Researchers found that language, active learning, link between content and local context, contrasting views knowledge influenced students’ ...

An authoring system was presented in this study, “AVUNET Author” which allows the creation of interactive learning object within a distance teaching platform on the Internet. For the conception of this system, we stated with the assumption that the content of distance teaching is not just to put online the content used for classroom teaching. In addition to the classical functions such as editi...