Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences
Volume:4 Issue: 3, 2013

This research was carried out aiming at studying information literacy standards among the employees of Dehloran education department so as to focus the attention of educational planners on the necessity of expanding information-seeking skills and information literacy among the employees of education department. Effective indicators were studied to provide appropriate suggestions regarding their influence. This descriptive-analytical research is a survey investigation. The statistical population consists of all employees (permanent، contractual) of Dehloran education department in 2012-2013. From the total 2200 employees، 221 male and 106 female employees were selected by stratified sampling method. Questionnaire was used to gather information. The questionnaire was developed based on the standards of the American Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Inferential statistics was used to analyze data، and variance analysis and independent t test were used to test hypotheses. The obtained results indicate that the employees of Dehloran education department are not in favorable condition concerning information literacy standards. Also information literacy standards differ among male and female employees. Practical suggestions for this research include holding on-job training courses to raise knowledge and enhance information literacy standards of employees، allowing special privileges for passing these courses، and establishing job promotion system on the basis of gaining educational and research skills.

Because of the close relationship between economic growth and well-being، many economists have sought to identify the sources of economic growth. Human capital، through increased quality، increased wages will enhance economic growth. Today، Development Economists studies shows government policy such as Investing in human capital and R&D expenditure affected on Income distribution and reduction of inequality in countries economics.

This study is based on data of 2011 Iranian social accounting matrix using structural path analysis. The study population was included all the economic sectors and households in Iran. Sim sip -SAM software used for analysis of data.

With increase of 1 billion Rial in education sector، income of energy sector، services sector، Health sector، agricultural sector، industrial sector، and mining sector increased 0. 0199، 0. 0195، 0. 0185، 0. 0173، 0. 012، and 0. 0154 respectively. Among the quintile households، the fifth quintile Urban with 0. 038 billion will have the greatest impact on expansion of the training and the total household income will increase to the extent of 0. 229 billion.

Expansion or regards to Education sector caused increase of income in household’s quintiles equally، in result، this issue reduced inequality، thus providing of free education will increase household welfare، economic growth and ultimately the economic development will be strengthened.

The aim of this research was to determine the effects of cognitive and metacognitive strategies training to strengthen their، self-directed learning readiness and self efficacy. In this quasi-experimental design with pretest - posttest control group was used. In this study، 50 midwifery students were selected، and randomly and equally divided into two groups The experimental group was attended in 8 sessions of cognitive and metacognitive strategies training and were evaluated by guglielmino self-directed learning questioner، schwarzer self efficacy questioner and Combined Inventory weienestein، palmer & pintrich. SPSS software was used for analyzing data''s. The statistical analyses were ANCOVA. Results of this research show that training of cognitive and metacognitive strategies Uses strategies strengthens، improved of self –directed learning and self efficacy. According to research findings indicate that learning strategies can be taught and learned and learning strategies can be effected on self-directed learning readiness and self efficacy therefore، teachers must trying for training these strategies to students and notice Students how to learn and improve skills.

Education is one of the largest and most diversified systems of every community which will determine its fate in future. By considering this fact that development is based on education of qualitative and competent workforce، necessity of their education becomes obvious. In document of fundamental transformation، teachers are the most effective part and because of constant changes on pedagogy، it is necessary for teachers and managers to learn new skills. Thus for the importance and role of this document in education، this study aims to analysis the contents of document of fundamental transformations in education quantitatively and qualitatively with respect to five dimensions of organizational learning in Chiva et al. `s (2007) OLC measurement instrument. Techniques of content analysis and Shanon entropy were used for analysis. Results of this study show that decision making and interaction with the external environment dimensions were of most emphasis and less emphasis were on dialogue، experimentation and risk taking respectively. It seems to achieve the goals of document of fundamental transformations in education، it is necessary to reconsider all areas of educational policies for organizational learning.

The rapid growth and increasing Information and Communication Technology leads to changes in different spheres of life including education systems. Introducing e-learning، as a manifestation of the influence of Information and Communication Technology on teaching and teaching-learning process، the concept of interaction in the learning process has undergone extensive change. Interaction is the double affair that it required two objects and two actions at least. Interaction which occur when these objects and events mutually affect each other. The main feature of e-learning، in addition to easy access to information is communication and interactive features that are based on the philosophical point is view constructivistic and participation. Constructivistic learning environments are organized in such a way that sufficient opportunities for learners to interact with classmates، teachers and other educational factors. No interaction not only motivate learners to continue their course in seeing، but also learning dose not occur. But discussing interaction in e-learning environment is much more complex than traditional education. Suffice it has to experts forced to think further of the problem of interaction in e-learning.. At present article is discussed definitions of E-learning and Interaction، the role of Interaction in E-learning and Types of interatction in Elearning environment.

In the process of preparing a research document (i. e. technical report or research paper) researchers challenging with organizing the references and research sources at the beginning to end of publishing. In this case، reference manager softwares are utilized by many researchers to overcome difficulties and facilitate the reference organization. There are several free/commercial reference managers for storing، collecting، organizing and managing the citations، among them Zotero as open source software has been gained many interests between researchers due to its advantages and user friendly features. In this paper، in addition to introduce Zotero services، Zotero is discussed and compared with other popular reference managers (EndNote، Mendeley، Connotea) in terms of their features، abilities and tools.