The purpose of this study was to examine the similarities and differences in what students and instructors perceive to be the importance, and instructor use of, representative effective clinical teaching skills noted in the literature. Teaching staff members (n = 74) and students (n = 96) in three successive quarters in a required clerkship in paediatrics completed parallel forms of a clinical ...

Students' judgments of their own learning are often misled by perceptions of fluency-the ease with which information is presented during learning. Lectures represent important learning experiences that contain variations in fluency, but have not been extensively studied. In the current study, students watched a 22-min videotaped lecture that was delivered by the same instructor in either a flue...

Much of the debate surrounding the use of lecture-based classes as a method for teaching science has focused on the passive role assumed by students in lecture (1, 2, 3). The communication channel is primarily instructor-to-student. Numerous studies have shown that student performance in science classes improves with increasing levels of active participation by students in classroom discussions...

Use of in-class concept questions with clickers can transform an instructor-centered "transmissionist" environment to a more learner-centered constructivist classroom. To compare the effectiveness of three different approaches using clickers, pairs of similar questions were used to monitor student understanding in majors' and nonmajors' genetics courses. After answering the first question indiv...

Providing an effective mechanism for an instructor to interact with one or more remote classrooms is a complex problem in synchronous distance learning. Although a human operator at the remote classroom could be used to direct a video camera and hence provide feedback to the instructor as to the state of the class and to coordinate the instructor’s attention to the class as questions are raised...

The Kinect sensor gives computer eyes. It can capture 3D coordinates of human body joints. This provides a convenient way to track human body movement. This paper proposes an on-line physical training system using 3D sensors (Kinect) so that the exercise instructor and the athletes who are not in the same location can collaborate and fulfil training tasks remotely. The system captures the motio...

Pages with reference to book, From 48 To 49 Saldar Nasim Khan,Nabil Wasif ( Final Year Medical Student, Class of 1998, Department of Surgery, The Aga KHan University Medical University Hospital. Karachi. ) Masood Urnar ( Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery, The Aga KHan University Medical University Hospital. Karachi. ) Mohamrnad Umar ( Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, The Aga ...