The present report summarizes challenges in teaching medical ethics, defines its goals, describes theoretical frameworks for moral education, and reviews strategies for teaching medical ethics to serve as guidelines in developing medical ethics instruction. Medical teachers should clarify the instructional goals in cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral domains. The cognitive developmental and ...

This paper addresses the use of video for a flipped classroom with a case study. The instructor makes the lecture videos available to the students prior to class, and utilizes the class time for discussion and student questions. We evaluate this approach with an introductory psychology course that was taught repeatedly in a traditional way and as a lecture video supported flipped classroom. The...

BACKGROUND The most common teaching method used in China is lecturing, but recently, efforts have been widely undertaken to promote the transition from teacher-centered to student-centered education. The patient-oriented problem-solving (POPS) system is an innovative teaching-learning method that permits students to work in small groups to solve clinical problems, promotes self-learning, encour...

Large group teaching has always been the most popular way of teaching from past decades. It is one of the most convenient and economical ways to transfer knowledge from the content expert to the learner. Educationists have always raised concerns about active learning in this method. The use of variety of methods would be included in classroom teaching and active learning should be encouraged. T...

This study explores the impact of teachers' content knowledge, pedagogical student-centered approach, and teacher-centered approach on student achievement perceptions. Data were collected from seven public secondary schools in Pakistan using an adapted self-report instrument five Likert scales. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed as estimation technique by ...

Abstract Background An instructor’s conceptions of teaching and learning contribute to the establishment environments that may benefit or hinder student learning. Previous studies have defined continuum conceptions, ranging from limited complete, as well instructional practices they help inform (instructor-centered student-centered), corresponding these establish, traditional student-centered. ...

This study investigates the implementation of an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) professional development program on instructional practices of elementary teachers. The research assesses to what extent teachers implement IWB-related strategies (e.g., technology-pedagogy correspondence, interactivity types, teaching-learning mode, differentiated learning, student-centered learning, multimedia princ...