Over the past few years the question of whether the lecture is an effective teaching method has been one of the most heatedly debated topics in the field of higher education. While research on the effectiveness of lectures has been carried out since at least the 1960s, the value of the lecture has been increasingly questioned recently for a number of reasons that include waning lecture attendan...

objectives: in present study, we studied the effect of teaching three painting methods (free method, subject selection method and complementary method) on creativity of children with learning disabilities. first, among all disabled students, who refer to bizhani center for learning disabilities in arak city, 60 subjects were randomly selected as statistical sample. thus, the 45 children, divide...

 Background: Team-based learning (TBL) is a structured type of cooperative learning that has growing application in medical education. This study compares levels of student learning and teaching satisfaction for a neurology course between conventional lecture and team-based learning. Methods: The study incorporated 70 students aged 19 to 22 years at the school of rehabilitation. One half ...

introduction: the most important change in medical education is a shift from didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching to the use of interactive, problem-based, student-centered learning. student-centered approach is a teaching approach t that encompasses replacing lectures with active learning, integrating self-paced learning programs and cooperative group situations, ultimately hol...

An experiment is carried out on a subset of a first year group in Semester 1, 2001 for five separate fiftyminute sessions. Five groups are taught using one teaching technique based around the idea of passive learning. Five further groups are taught using a second technique based on active learning within small groups. The remaining three groups face a third approach based on a combination of th...

., life long learning is increasingly acknowledged to be a characteristic of professionalism. new information is being generated with increasing rapidity and educators must be able to cope with it. to study the effects of educational workshops hold by edc of tums on the participant faculty. methods. the subjects of this cross-sectional descriptive study were 375 faculty members of tums and the ...