In this study, we tried to identify the components of internal efficacy evaluation of academic e-courses through a qualitative study approach. The research method is qualitative and in particular "qualitative case study.” Thus, potential contributors to this study included all faculty members of Virtual Colleges of Shiraz Universities, Payam Noor, and Allameh Tabatabai University Virtual Educat...

One of the key issues in e-learning is to identify needs, educational behavior and learning speed of the learners and design a suitable curriculum commensurate to their abilities. This goal is achieved by identifying the learners’ different dimension of personality and ability and assigning suitable learning material to them according these features. In this paper, an intelligent tutoring syste...

Background and Objective: Increasing access to hardware and software applications for e-learning has opened a new horizon facing educational institutions that can help to enhance the quality of education. This study was designed to compare the satisfaction and success rate of medical students for their endocrine pathophysiology course with two methods of education using e-learning vs lecture-ba...

Introduction: There has been a growing trend in many countries to present medical courses electronically and in the form of learner-based learning. Hence, the present study aimed to compare the effects of two educational methods, Problem-based Learning (PBL) and Electronic Problem-based Learning (E-PBL), on the learning of cardiology ward interns in 2013. Methods: This pretest-posttest quasi-e...

learning english is very popular all over the world nowadays and it is considered a high prestigious language among citizens of different societies. one of the most important materials for learning a new language are textbooks. the debate that whether learning a new language is natural and neutral or ideological and influential on people’s worldviews, has always been of great importance.

Introduction: The basis of distance learning rests on the independence of the learner. The independent learning-teaching process is an educational system in which each learner is independent and separated from their teacher by time and place. Hence the present study seeks to examine E-learning Theories in general, but focuses on Independence Theory. Methods: The present study was conducte...