Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Online Open-Book Exams: Insights from Medical Students’ Perspectives [PDF]
Assessing students is a crucial aspect of the educational process, closely tied to the quality of their learning. Employing a one-group interventional study, we designed and conducted open-book online exams for doctoral students in medical education at ...
Soleiman Ahmady +3 more
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Personalisation of Learning in Virtual Learning Environments [PDF]
Personalization of learning has become a prominent issue in the educational field, at various levels. This article elaborates a different view on personalisation than what usually occurs in this area. Its baseline is that personalisation occurs when learning turns out to become personal in the learner's mind.
Verpoorten, Dominique +4 more
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Effect of linear versus adaptive electronic continuing medical education regarding dental bleaching on dentists’ knowledge and satisfaction [PDF]
Background: Studies on the efficacy of adaptive e-learning in dentistry are limited. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of linear and adaptive electronic continuing medical education (CME) courses about dental bleaching.
Mitra Zolfaghari +2 more
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Virtual humans are computer‐generated characters designed to look and behave like real people. Studies have shown that virtual humans can mimic many of the social effects that one finds in human‐human interactions such as creating rapport, and people respond to virtual humans in ways that are similar to how they respond to real people.
William Swartout +9 more
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Using Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) to support Second Language Learning: A Case Study of the Student Journey [PDF]
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online gaming shows potential not just for entertaining, but also in education.
Kongmee, Isara +2 more
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Investigating the components of virtual education development based on the four-frame model of organizational development [PDF]
Background & Objective: The development of virtual education is one of the important needs of universities and one of the main policies of higher education.
Maria Masoudi +2 more
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Psychometric properties of the Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure in an Iranian hospital setting [PDF]
Background: Students’ perceptions of the educational environment are an important construct in assessing and enhancing the quality of medical training programs.
Shahrzad Shokoohi +4 more
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Learning and Understanding in Virtual Teams
There are sufficient reasons to conclude that virtual education is not just hype. There are, among others, economic motivations such as bringing one learning module to a larger audience of learners, and pragmatic reasons such as achieving flexibility in time and space for learning, which is especially important for adult learners.
Paul A. Kirschner, Jan van Bruggen
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Different virtual learning environments offer different affordances and pedagogical design for learning interactions which results in difference learning interaction patterns.
Maka Eradze +3 more
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Ultimate Course Formula for How to Create and Sell Online Courses in 60 Days or Less: A Book Review [PDF]
Digital marketing and entrepreneurship are two of the main and crucial topics in the digital age, and almost every field of science is unaffected by this subject (1).
Leila Homayouni, Zahra Karimian
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