The contemporary e-learning scenario is marked by a strong contradiction between Italian and international technical and pedagogical literature on one hand and the reality of the experiences carried out to date on the other. From a pedagogical perspective, analysis of the literature reveals four strong points in e-learning, corresponding to as many methodological-didactic categories characteriz...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of assisted problem-based learning (PBL) compared to a didactic approach in a pharmaceutics course. DESIGN Data were collected over 7 offerings of the course. In the first half of the semester about half of the students (PBL1) learned in a PBL format while the other students (PBL2) received didactic lectures. In the second half of the semester, the teach...

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...

Models for teaching programming have been suggested in the literature. Interviews of teachers indicate that they normally do not relate to such models. Since referring explicitly to didactic models in teaching may improve learning, using models seems preferable. Models concerning learning and teaching are suggested in the paper.

Introduction: In the theory of situations of G. Brousseau and in general of the French school, the study of the epistemological obstacles has had a secondary role. Initially the study of the obstacles was tied to questions of an ergonomic nature. How can we distinguish in the shortest possible time the didactic and/or epistemological obstacles relative to the specific content to be taught? The ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if high fidelity simulation based team training can improve clinical team performance when added to an existing didactic teamwork curriculum. SETTING Level 1 trauma center and academic emergency medicine training program. PARTICIPANTS Emergency department (ED) staff including nurses, technicians, emergency medicine residents, and attending physicians. INTERVENTION E...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Practice management education is required in family medicine residencies, and requirements have recently been expanded. Surveys show that graduates feel unprepared to address practice management after graduation, so it is an aspect of training in need of improvement. METHODS We substituted a "simulated practice" for part of an established didactic program in practice...

Didactic strategies in the classroom are influenced by factors like class size, prior class knowledge and level of class attention. In large classes, student activation has to follow different didactic approaches in order to obtain ad-hoc feedback from individual students than in small classes. One approach to increase class attention are classroom voting tools (known from quiz show formats for...

The objective of this study was to analyze how Didactic Culture influences the faculty performance in a business administration program. In order to achieve that goal, it was necessary to create the concept of Didactic Culture. The instrument used for data collection was the in-depth interview. The research problem: How does didactic culture influence teacher performance in a business administr...