Computers have made their way into the classroom and lecture hall. Overhead projectors, blackboards, and whiteboards are being displaced by smartboards and computer based multimedia presentations. Students with laptops are a common sight and many courses have their lecture notes on the web. Students are studying programming, web-site design, computer graphics, and many other practical disciplin...

We study the problem of providing recommendations to students that help them in their studies. To address this problem, we present an approach of providing recommendations of remedial learning materials to students that fill the gaps in their knowledge of the subject in the courses they take. According to this method, we first identify gaps in the student’s mastery of various course topics. We ...

Gamified lecture courses are defined as lecture courses formatted as games, for the purposes of this research. This paper presents an example of a traditional instructionbased lecture course that was redesigned using a game-like design. First, confrontations specific to gaming situations were considered, to derive goals for students in a classroom. Students fought using a game system in these e...

Exam preparation, reskilling and certification, casual learning, higher education language, primary secondary supplemental are some of the areasthat make up online sector. With a predicted CAGR 46.48 percent, market for would increase in value from INR 11.99 billion 2018 to 123.65 by 2024. A shift consumer behaviour toward detailed learning an demand tier IIand III cities what fuelling growth t...

Abstract Background Applied Calculus courses serve hundreds of thousands undergraduates as quantitative preparation and gatekeepers across diverse fields study. The current study investigated how motivational factors are associated with students’ learning outcomes in from the perspective self-determination theory—a sound comprehensive motivation theory that has been supported by considerable re...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate two educational methods for point-of-care ultrasound (POC US) in order to: 1) determine participant test performance and attitudes in using POC US and 2) compare cost and preparation time to run the courses. METHODS This was a pilot study conducted at a county teaching hospital. Subjects were assigned to participate in either a large group course with live classroom lec...

Abstract Two studies investigated the testing effects on performance and metacognitive judgment accuracy in authentic learning settings. Across two educational psychology courses, undergraduate students had opportunity to voluntarily participate four different practice tests during term—without feedback Study 1 ( N = 201 students) or with individual corrective 2 111 students). real classroom se...

Over recent years, computers have been making their way into the classroom and lecture theatre. Overhead projectors, blackboards, and whiteboards have been joined or even displaced by smartboards and computer based multimedia presentations. Students with laptops are a common sight, and courses have their lecture notes on the web. Students are taking courses in programming, web-site design, comp...

PURPOSE To determine the agreement among the items of the Korean physical therapist licensing examination, learning objectives of class subjects, and physical therapists' job descriptions. METHODS The main tasks of physical therapists were classified, and university courses related to the main tasks were also classified. Frequency analysis was used to determine the proportions of credits for ...

Good language learners slot in a repertoire of strategies and when language tests are at stake, test-taking strategies and test-wiseness pave pay to a prolific outcome. Among such tests, TOEFL iBT seems to be a prerequisite to academic success and a nightmare many Iranian students struggle with. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to raise awareness about the type of questions in iBT, b...