In scholar curriculum, the integration of contents from different learning areas has been always a challenging issue, but with very few practical experimentations. A first attempt appears in the late 1920s under the name “core” [1]. Successively, interdisciplinary and integrated curricula have been widely associated with the progressive education movement [2]. In the last twenty years, a variet...

background: clinical training has an important section in medical students’ education. creating a favorable learning environment plays an essential role in medical education. since clinical teachers involve to clinical problem, clinical education environment evaluation can help to identify the negative and positive factors. this study was conducted to compare medical students’ and residents&apo...

Altex 31, 2/14 224 Alternatives Initiative in Sri Lanka: Preand Post-Conference Workshops at the Inaugural Scientific Conference of the Sri Lanka Association for Laboratory Animal Science Mangala Gunatilake 1, Francois Busquet 2, and Mohammad A. Akbarsha 3 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)-Europe, Ko...

Educational ergonomics is defined as that field of human factors/ergonomic science concerned with the interaction of educational performance and educational design. The premise of educational ergonomics is that student performance to a substantial degree is context specific---specialized in relation to specific design factors---and that ergonomic interventions directed at design improvements th...

YouTube has become a complement learning platform which fosters on demand with educational videos. Educational videos are understood as fruitful strategy to enhance the user’s knowledge and applied in schools, well science communication, e.g., inform about climate change. This paper discusses two perspectives visible current research literature YouTube. First, studies assume that watching chang...