Medical training has been lately the subject of intense scrutiny. The knowledge transfer approach has shifted focus on the trainee as an active participant in the education process. The traditional view that learning stems from the transmission of knowledge, has recently been challenged. Although controversial, some suggest that a student can maximize this learning process when educators tailor...

Despite our increasing knowledge on vocabulary and its learning and teaching, the reality in a classroom may still be somewhat more traditional. This paper looks at how lexical knowledge is portrayed in an EFL classroom and in pupils’ ideas of words. The data derives from a longitudinal study that investigated the development of children’s metalinguistic awareness during their first six years a...

In order to reduce the passivity of students and enhance their learning experience in large lectures, we developed a browser-based tool called Classroom Interacter to promote classroom interaction. It allows students to use their own mobile devices to participate in the learning process. The main features of Classroom Interacter include live voting, status setting and question sending. The eval...

The flipped classroom has been receiving a lot of press lately as a more desirable way to manage the classroom and help students learn. However, flipping the classroom may not be appropriate for every course or every instructor. There may be a time when other active learning strategies are more appropriate to meet learning outcomes, student needs, and instructor capacity. This manuscript will d...

With the introduction of Web-Based Instruction (WBI) the traditional classroom-based higher education could be made more effective form of instruction. But the studies have shown the negative results. On the other hand the distance education has derived the direct benefit of WBI through extending classroom instruction in online to reach every remote student. However researchers have identified ...

There are many ways educators can enhance their curriculum and experiment with new pedagogical models to engage students. There have been numerous studies that have shown improvement as well as the potential for additional success with many of these models. From our own experience, certain classroom settings and topics lend themselves to a particular learning style that may be more advantageous...

Standard Natural Classroom (SNC) is a real-time classroom based on smart space and design principles of e-learning, aiming at creating face-to-face, interactive and pervasive learning scene for students who are far from live classroom. We use various techniques in developing different kinds of components in SNC. Two components among them are specially described in this paper: E-pen and Emotion ...

Treating classroom learning as a community process of transforming participation in social practices has provided a useful corrective to predominantly abstract, mentalistic conceptualizations of learning. For example, Lave’s community of practice and Rogoff’s community of learners emphasize the ways in which learning is deeply situated in a person’s becoming part of a community through particip...