Studio-Based Learning (SBL) is a novel learner-centered and collaborative learning model for computing education. This model has been under development and evaluation in computing courses at three universities (Auburn, Washington State and Hawaii) with support from the National Science Foundation. Adapted from architecture and art education, as well as from collaborative problem-solving pedagog...

This study compared the relationship between learning style preferences and learner success of students in an online graduate level instructional design course with an equivalent face-to-face course. Comparisons included motivation maintenance, task engagement, and cognitive controls. Results revealed significant relationships between preferences and course success on five constructs for the fa...

Successfully promoting engagement within learning environments is a subject of increasing attention within the AI in Education community. Evidence is mounting that game-based learning environments hold great potential to engage students, but disengaged behavior is still observed. Devising adaptive strategies to re-engage students in the learning task is a key open research question. Toward that...

The rapid emergence and adoption of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has raised new questions and rekindled old debates in higher education. Academic leaders are concerned about educational quality, access to content, privacy protection for learner data, production costs and the proper relationship between MOOCs and residential instruction, among other matters. At the same time, these same l...

Most medical faculty receive little or no training about how to be effective teachers, even when they assume major educational leadership roles. To identify the competencies required of an effective teacher in medical education, the authors developed a comprehensive conceptual model. After conducting a literature search, the authors met at a two-day conference (2006) with 16 medical and nonmedi...

Research has found that the new-age learner, Gen Z, is different from his/ her predecessors and hence educators need new age pedagogical interventions to cater this group of learners. With a change in way learner learns, education system needs revamp incorporate tools suit learner.The paper reviews use Gamification as tool for motivation engagement Z higher with help peer-reviewed research lite...

Direct investigations of student opinions about the use of ICT and learning are generally missing from the literature. This paper reports on a study that captured the reflective voice of students to investigate what is truly happening in Victorian schools. The focus of this study was the student learner and how students think about their own learning. The study identified key contextual factors...

K.N. Huggett and W.B. Jeffries (eds.), An Introduction to Medical Teaching, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9066-6_2, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Abstract The 1 h lecture is a standard delivery mechanism for medical knowledge. In its traditional format, it has been shown to have serious limitations for domains of learning outside of knowledge transfer and students have diffi culty m...

The current moves by many African countries including Kenya to reform their mathematics education adopt learner-centred pedagogies presents a need fill the knowledge gap on learner-textbook relationships there. textbook remains key resource for teaching and learning is increasingly being expected play pedagogical role in addition making national curriculums manifest both teachers students. In K...