E-learning as the youngest generation of distance education, rapidly has developed in recent years, in majority of institutional systems. But in spite of its rapid growth, there are many challenges and ambiguities about ...

Recent advances in computer networks and computer science have created a proper environment to control and monitor systems. With the needs today's society to virtual and distanced educations, developments of virtual ...

Studies show among a variety of (individual and environmental) factors effective on learning and learners’ educational progress, motivation plays a prominent and perhaps more important role. A proper identification and ...

Introduction: The process of higher education is highly significant in any society. These days, universities have come across a main transformation. Lack of budget, an increase in the number of university students, a change ...

In today's world, education is considered as a key factor to development of countries. Countries, which have tried to standardize development indicators in education through appropriate programming and investments, have ...

Introduction: The significance of fostering critical thinking in students has been explicated by the increasing rate of knowledge and information. To assimilate knowledge and to assess the considerable amount of information, ...

Introduction: Today, the development of critical thinking is considered an expected outcome of graduate studies .This study was designed to determine the critical thinking skills of students of Bushehr University of Medical ...

Currently, many universities all over the world invest in e-learning implementation. One of most important groups influencing this work are faculty members. However, plenty of studies reported faculty resistant to adopt ...

Currently, e-Learning is an important concept in higher education and the wide range of universities thus created indicate the world-wide demand and need for learning. With electronic learning, the possibility for "learning ...

Introduction: Microaneurysms (MAs) are one of the types of retinal lesions. MAs are one of the early signs of diabetic retinopathy (DR), which is one of the leading causes of vision loss. The presence of MA on the surface ...

Introduction: With the evergrowing increase of knowledge in today's global society, teachers now feel it is necessity to train students to become reflective thinkers. This issue is particularly important for nursing students ...

This paper studies some new online assessment methods. The main question is: How do we know online students are actually learning? In order to find an appropriate answer to this question, the research methods we used were ...

Background: Self-Efficacy is an individual's judgment about his/her abilities and assurance about having personal capabilities. People, who are highly efficient, perceive higher goals for themselves, have more desirable ...

Background: In-service training for employees is one of the necessities of medical universities and healthcare providers. These courses are expanding rapidly due to recent advances in modern information technology.Materials ...

The development of information and communication technology has without doubt had a great influence on the culture of human civilizations. Some even state that information technology is the most important factor in recent ...

Some ethical issues need to be considered before, during, and after performing a study and upon the distribution of results. If ethical issues are disregarded, the word "ethical misconduct" is used. On the other hand, since ...

Organizations tend towards enterpreneurship in order to increase their functionality by innovative approaches and creating new risky opportunities. The question is how risky opportunities are created and how organizational ...