Planning is an almost ubiquitous activity, engaged in by individuals, organizations, communities, and nations. It is pursued for a variety of purposes in a variety of ways, depending on what is being planned, who is doing the planning, and what assumptions are being made about the context and constraints of planning. There has been relatively little conceptualizing and theorizing directly about...

BACKGROUND Anatomy in medical curricula is typically taught via pedagogy consisting of didactic lectures combined with a practical component. The practical component often includes traditional cadaveric dissection classes and/or workshops utilizing anatomical models, carefully prosected cadaveric material and radiology. The primary aim of this study was to determine if there is an association b...

Nature of science research continues to generate a high level of interest among educators and scholars. Despite the fact that the nature of science is a continually evolving and highly complex instructional endeavour, there are no comprehensive instructional models available for researchers that can systematically capture and organize this theoretical ‘universe’ of content and then translate th...

Nature of science research continues to generate a high level of interest among educators and scholars. Despite the fact that the nature of science is a continually evolving and highly complex instructional endeavor, there are no comprehensive instructional models available for researchers that can systematically capture and organize this theoretical ‘universe’ of content and then translate thi...

The article is devoted to the description of principal world educational models (European, American, and Asian), reforms are implemented by state governments for raising up high school effectiveness presented in paper. Theoretical significance research following: exposed described positive experience field modernization system; characterized structures, basics, main futures processes forming le...

Instituted in major medical programs only within the past decade, the advent of an 'expanded' 8-year medical curriculum reflects a major reformation of how physicians are trained in China. Although much remains to be done, including the refinement of associated learning objectives, instructional models, and teaching pedagogies, movement toward a longer, more standardized training framework repr...

There is a strong relationship between learning theories and instructional practices. Effective learning occurs as a result of effective teaching strategies. Effective teaching requires teachers to understand learning concepts and to develop a theoretical orientation combined with practice for efficient instructional design. There are three leading learning theories presented in this article, i...