BACKGROUND Although medical colleges in Iraq started recently to increasingly use small group teaching approach, there is limited research on the challenges, opportunities and needs of small group teaching in Iraq particularly in Kurdistan Region. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the small group teaching experience in the 4(th) and 5(th) year of study in Hawler College of Medicine with...

Many teachers experience serious problems when teaching object orientation to beginners or professionals. Many of these problems could be overcome or reduced through the use of more appropriate tools. In this paper, we introduce BlueJ, an integrated development environment designed for teaching object orientation, and discuss how the use of this tool can change the approach to teaching.

During the past three years we have been integrating mechanized theorem proving into a traditional introductory course on formal methods. We explain our goals for adding mechanized provers to the course, and illustrate how we have integrated the provers into our syllabus to meet those goals. We also document some of the teaching materials we have developed for the course to date, and what our e...

TeleTeach is an electronic hypermedia database of English as a second language (ESL) teaching materials which can be accessed through TeleNex, a computer network for ESL teachers in Hong Kong. This article discusses the theoretical framework for the knowledge structure of TeleTeach, and how the electronic medium was exploited to help ESL teachers with their daily teaching as well as to enrich t...

Evaluation research on business simulators is still in its infancy, both inside and outside the system dynamics community. Experiences made with other instructional media (for instance, interactive video) and with non-computer-based simulation games suggest that this is to a great deal caused by asking the wrong questions. The paper presents a conceptual model of human learning that can be used...

This paper introduces a university course in which digital video composing was used as a study method. The aim of the course was to empower future teachers to use digital and multimodal literacy practices in their own teaching. Students in education, 13 in total, participated in the course on digital literacies. The course achievement was measured with the task in which students composed a vide...

This paper describes our experiences in designing and implementing a junior/senior level undergraduate course in Game Programming at Arizona State University. We highlight the pedagogical methods employed during each of the three semesters that the class was offered. We compare our approach with established teaching methods and highlight the advantages of implementing our novel approach for tea...

Even today, the majority of university courses still consist of lectures complemented with exercises. Lectures serve to convey theoretical knowledge, whereas in exercises students work on assignments to consolidate the knowledge they have acquired during lectures, and to relate their knowledge to daily practice. Cooperative Knowledge Spaces will support natural learning scenarios in a virtual e...

Peer Instruction, a well-known student-centered teaching method, engages students during class through structured, frequent questioning and is often facilitated by classroom response systems. The central feature of any Peer Instruction class is a conceptual question designed to help resolve student misconceptions about subject matter. We provide students two opportunities to answer each questio...