OBJECTIVE This study sought to determine whether a flipped classroom that facilitated peer learning would improve undergraduate health sciences students' abilities to find, evaluate, and use appropriate evidence for research assignments. METHODS Students completed online modules in a learning management system, with librarians facilitating subsequent student-directed, in-person sessions. Mixe...

The digital revolution developing swiftly in the world, it is the trend of the times to use technology in the education. The birth of flipped classroom perfect confirms this point. Under the background of vocational curriculum reform and using technology to improve the quality of secondary vocational education, the blended teaching mode is refreshing and has practical significance. In this pape...

Haloacetaldehydes can be employed for probing unpaired DNA structures involving cytosine and adenine residues. Using an enzyme that was structurally proven to flip its target cytosine out of the DNA helix, the HhaI DNA methyltransferase (M.HhaI), we demonstrate the suitability of the chloroacetaldehyde modification for mapping extrahelical (flipped-out) cytosine bases in protein-DNA complexes. ...

Large group teaching has always been the most popular way of teaching from past decades. It is one of the most convenient and economical ways to transfer knowledge from the content expert to the learner. Educationists have always raised concerns about active learning in this method. The use of variety of methods would be included in classroom teaching and active learning should be encouraged. T...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this curricular innovation project were to implement a flipped classroom curriculum for the gynaecologic oncology topics of the obstetrics and gynaecology medical student clerkship, and to evaluate student satisfaction with the change. METHODS Four short online videos on the topics of endometrial hyperplasia, cervical dysplasia, evaluation of an adnexal mass, and ...

INTRODUCTION While progressive MRI brain changes characterize advanced Parkinson's disease (PD), little has been discovered about structural alterations in the earliest phase of the disease, i.e. in patients with motor symptoms and with normal cognition. Our study aimed to detect grey matter (GM) and white matter (WM) changes in PD patients without cognitive impairment. METHODS Twenty PD pati...

The flipped classroom, an educational alternative to the traditional lecture, has been widely adopted by educators at all levels of education and across many disciplines. In the flipped classroom, learners prepare in advance of the face-to-face meeting by learning content material on their own. Classroom time is reserved for application of the learned content to solving problems or discussing c...

Flipped learning in higher education is becoming increasingly widespread. Although the number of flipped articles has increased since 2011, systematic reviews have been...