Case based learning: an innovative student-centred methodology for teaching biochemistry

Story Based Learning: A Student Centred Practice-Oriented Learning Strategy

Five teacher profiles in student-centred curricula based on their conceptions of learning and teaching

BACKGROUND Teachers' conceptions of learning and teaching are partly unconscious. However, they are critical for the delivery of education and affect students' learning outcomes. Lasting changes in teaching behaviour can only be realized if conceptions of teachers have been changed accordingly. Previously we constructed a questionnaire named COLT to measure conceptions. In the present study, we...

Teaching and Learning Medical Biochemistry: Perspectives from a Student and an Educator

Advancement of medicine and that of biochemistry are inseparable, and much of modern medicine would not be practiced in the ways, as they are known today, without our understanding of how genetic, pathogenic and environmental factors affect the human body at the biochemical level. Thus, the importance of teaching medical students biochemistry is self-evident. Ironically, many medical students a...

Using Virtual Learning Environments: Lecturers' Conceptions of Teaching and the Move to Student-Centred Learning

This paper reports on doctoral research investigating whether Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are being used to facilitate student-centred learning in UK Higher Education (HE). The focus is on lecturers (HE teachers) teaching in a face-to-face context. It is claimed that the use of Web or Internet-based technology can facilitate the creation of a student-centred learning environment [1] an...

Designing an IT-augmented student-centred learning environment

This paper explores the nature of the relationship between IT and a student-centred quality-teaching environment. It argues that given the need to graduate students with knowledge, skills and capabilities for the extent of change required in a knowledge economy, universities must give more attention to the development of student-centred teaching opportunities in which students learn from experi...