Abstract This chapter explores the relationships between indicators of student success such as persistence and engagement in effective educational practices focusing on historically underrepresented populations.

BACKGROUND To potentially optimize intubation skill teaching in an American Heart Association® Airway Management Course® for novices, we investigated the transfer of skills from video laryngoscopy to direct laryngoscopy and vice versa using King Vision® and Macintosh blade laryngoscopes respectively. METHODS Ninety volunteers (medical students, residents and staff physicians) without prior in...

introduction: non-verbal communication skills, also called sign language or silent language, include all behaviors performed in the presence of others or perceived either consciously or unconsciously. the main aim of this review article was to determine the effect of the teachers’ non-verbal communication on success in teaching using the findings of the studies conducted on the relationship bet...

This paper is intended to compare information retrieval (IR) educational goals in different academic and professional areas such as Library and Information Science (LIS) and Health Sciences (HS), analysing and identifying a shift on user seeking goals in the digital era and, eventually, on educational goals as well. It starts with a section on information literacy where several aspects are spec...

Mathematics teaching and learning is an important factor that leads to the success of the students’ achievement. Since mathematics is one of the important subjects at Malaysian Institute of Information Technology (MIIT), Universiti Kuala Lumpur, this study aims to investigate on ICT application in learning mathematics among engineering technology students. The use of e learning and internet res...

In last month’s edition of JOOP we started a series of columns discussing the problems with teaching object-oriented programming to first year students. We talked about requirements for an object-oriented teaching language and analysed how close different languages come to fulfil these requirements. We also mentioned one important aspect: the importance of the environment. In short: a suitable ...

Research confirms that people learn more effectively by active enquiry rather than passive reception and through experimentation and collaboration. Collaborative problem solving comprises a set of skills that are considered necessary for success in today’s world (O’Neil et al. 2003). Importantly, the development of such skills requires a learning/teaching approach that combines both problem cen...