Preschool teachers rely on several strategies for motivating children to participate in learning activities. In the current study, we evaluated the effectiveness of and preference for three teaching contexts in which embedded, sequential, or no programmed reinforcement was arranged. The embedded context included highly preferred teaching materials, the sequential context included highly preferr...

Recent advances in technology have brought major changes in pedagogy methods. Distance Learning (DL) has emerged as an innovative teaching method and it is becoming very popular in today’s education. We study a business simulation game in a DL environment and examine the learning outcomes and benefits of using the game in this environment. We also compare our test results to a game conducted in...

Objectives To examine the perception of educational environment among clinical year students in Thailand using Dundee ready education environment measure (DREEM) and identify factors associated with the DREEM scores. Methods A total of 2,467 fourth- to sixth-year students from 34 teaching hospitals nationwide responded to a Thai version of DREEM questionnaire. Data on each student's sex, year...

The method is derived from the Greek word "methodos" (Metha-to, odos way) and is defined as the way forward to reaching the goals. Recently, the method has been perceived as the teachers’ means to help students find their own way to rediscover the world around them. In other words, the teaching method is the model or set of procedures or methods organized for implementing the operations underly...

Many scholars have listed the problems that prevent organizations’ employees to attend face to face training methods. Additionally, they have presented Information and Communication Technology (ICT) especially distance learning system as important way to overcome these obstacles. However, they did not depend on empirical studies to mention those problems and to compare between traditional train...

Compared with public undergraduate universities, the overall quality of students in Zhejiang Shuren University is relatively lower. Students learn SCM curriculum difficultly. In order to solve the problem, the teaching reform of SCM curriculum is researched to improve students’ initiative learning. Based on the actual situation, the contents of teaching reform such as curricular system construc...

This paper covers the present situation and problem of experimental teaching of mathematics specialty in recent years, puts forward and demonstrates experimental teaching methods for different education. From the aspects of content and experimental teaching approach, uses as an example the course “Experiment for Program Designing & Algorithmic Language” and discusses teaching practice and labor...

This case focuses on the challenges of delivering Western-style MBA programs in emerging markets, looking at the experience of the Researcher in teaching and assessing courses within management programs (especially in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management) and in thesis and dissertation research and writing. The case considers: cultural differences, learning style differences, l...

In this issue of The Oncologist, we begin a series of articles that consider the often problematic challenge of understanding and applying genomic information to the practice of oncology. Bardia et al. [1] describe the genomic findings from a patient with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer after progression on hormonal therapy. In this case, tumor profiling revealed an ESR1 mutation ...

Like most nonprofit hospitals, those of Massachusetts are facing serious financial challenges. Although the immediate issue is the shortfall between revenues and expenses, the author finds that the real problems are systemic, evidenced by at least three structural impediments: uncompensated care, overuse of teaching hospitals, and an increasingly unattractive environment for the practice of med...