In a 1996 American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) article, Deborah Ball and Suzanne Wilson (Ball & Wilson, 1996) made an argument for “integrity in teaching,” in which they framed integrity as the commitment to “fusing” the moral aspects of teaching with the intellectual. The central question they explored was how to deal with conflicts between the intellectual work of teaching content con...

Recent developments in medical education have created increasing challenges for medical teachers which is why the majority of German medical schools already offer educational and instructional skills trainings for their teaching staff. However, to date no framework for educational core competencies for medical teachers exists that might serve as guidance for the qualification of the teaching fa...

Objectives: Human histology is a discipline concerning the study of microscopic structures of human tissues and organs with the aid of light or electron microscopes. Traditional teaching of histology is composed of two separated components, theory and practice. The main disadvantage with traditional histology teaching is the detachment of theory and practice, so that students could not complete...

Non-linear approaches in face-to-face teaching pose a great challenge to instructors designing classroom-based knowledge delivery models. Not so long ago the search was for a suitable way to enhance face-to-face teaching with hypermedia and electronic learning components. Today it is more and more a matter of face-to-face teaching being adapted to technology based didactics. The perception of h...