The concepts of learning and teaching appear somehow mixed although their use emphasizes who is at the center of the process. Bologna Declaration has put the stress on the “What students do?” paradigm, shifting the center of the process to the student. Such paradigm also supports life long learning objectives. The remote laboratory concept provides a tool to sustain this shift towards a student...

Introduction Community partnerships and community oriented teaching and learning are currently strong themes in schooling and teacher education, and it could be argued that this approach to curriculum through partnerships, community based teaching and learning and service-learning is now ‘centre stage’. In July this year, for example, the International Center for Service Learning in Teacher Edu...

When a faculty member decides to use online technology for teaching, the campus' faculty development center usually becomes one of the sources of support. This presents a great opportunity for the faculty development center to address instructional design issues. However, if faculty members who have done online teaching were the source of support, what issues will they address and what advice w...

AIM To explore how satisfied family medicine residents are with their training in teaching hospitals and current postgraduate training program. METHODS We surveyed 135 family medicine residents in 5 teaching hospitals in Ankara region. The residents were asked to fill out the questionnaire at their work place. The questionnaire consisted of 23 open- and closed-ended questions about general de...

the present study,in order toidentifythe effect of teaching by socratic discussion on students' critical thinking disposition in university, was performed in the qualitative approach and by an action research method with theparticipants in one group of education undergraduate students, who were selected by purposeful sampling (n=20). collecting data were applied by “the standardized open-e...