Continuing the Conversation on Small-Group Learning

Continuing the Conversation

AS: My interest in inequality, which goes back to my school days, was initially quite fixed on class divisions. My involvement with gender inequality grew more slowly. There was much greater concentration on class in standard politics (including standard student politics), and when in the early 1950s I was studying at Presidency College in Calcutta, it was taken for granted that class divisions...

The Role of Facilitator in Teaching and Learning Within Small Groups: A Continuing Education Article

  Small groups that optimally consist of 8 to 12 members bring about extraordinary opportunities for teaching and learning. Almost all researchers in this area believe that an experienced group facilitator is amongst the most important prerequisites for achieving the desired outcomes. The aim of the current study therefore is to introduce some of the most important guidelines that help a group...

Small group discussion for medical students to learning embryology

Background: One of the most important issues is the best method to teach embryology course to medical students. Small group discussion (SGD) were used to working together, integral to learningdeveloping intellectual skills and interactive learning experience. Methods: The 72 medical students were equally randomizedto the SGD (group I) and usual lecture based teaching (LBT), (group II) in genera...

Small group discussion in continuing education for general practitioners.

Adult learning models for large-group continuing medical education activities.

BACKGROUND Despite evidence suggesting that other learning modalities are more effective, large-group continuing medical education (CME) activities continue to be predominantly lecture based. METHODS Using convenience sampling, a cross-sectional survey was administered to health care professionals attending the 2009 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Scientific Assembly. Participant...