Calculus is an important subject for science and engineering students but phenomenally it is abstract, difficult and highly boring. Hence, problem-based learning (PBL) which adopted a student-centered and active learning approach can be used to improve students’ participation, interests and performance in learning of calculus. This study is designed to investigate: (1) student’s perception abou...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect that a 3-year primary-care course experience with family medicine, internal medicine, or pediatric preceptors would have on clerkship performance in pediatrics and internal medicine. DESIGN In 1 academic year, third-year students were divided retrospectively into 3 groups based on preceptor type in the primary care course. An analysis of variance was conducte...

Students’ performances in introductory programming courses show large variation across students. There may be many reasons for these variations, such as methods of teaching, teacher competence in the subject, students’ coding backgrounds and abilities, students’ self-discipline, the teaching environment, and the resources available to students, all of which can affect student performance and ou...

The “First-Aid awareness e-course” provides the basic medical awareness to the users. This course covers emergency situations. The main objective is achieving the medical awareness, social conscious and a friendly society through First-Aid awareness e-course. Most of the E-learning course has limitations such as scarcity of content, lack of intelligent search and context sensitive personalizati...