Diversity content is often met with covert and overt resistance in the classroom. Utilisation of a balanced learning model may address classroom resistance. Balanced learning models require ‘backwards’ course planning, equal attention to course content and class process, and a strategic use of cyclical course design to include introduction of new materiel, experience, followed by personal refle...

Medical education in psychopharmacology can be designed according to modern principles of adult learning. The goal is to go beyond merely exposing learners to novel content, to the documentation that learning has occurred and that behaviors have changed, namely the upgrading of skills in clinical practice. The many aspects of this approach to medical education are discussed in overview here. Fu...

The advent of the massive open online course promises to bring world-class education to anyone with internet access. Instructors use blended models of education to deliver course content via video, text, interactive assignments, exams, wikis, and discussion forums. Courses with largely theoretical content are readily adapted to blended models for online audiences, but significant challenges ari...

E-learning is emerging as the new paradigm of modern education. Most of the e-learning systems have limitations such as scarcity of content, lack of intelligent search and context sensitive personalization problems, which are the challenging tasks for researchers. This motivated the author to take up this problem and the method implemented through this work suggests the instructors to use the c...

Learners can experience content disorientation in web based learning modules. The security injection modules developed by Towson University have increased students’ secure coding awareness and ability to apply secure coding principles but feedback from instructors indicates that students tend to skim or skip the module contents and proceed directly to the laboratory assignment. In this paper, w...

Students' religious beliefs and religious cultures have been shown to be the main factors predicting whether they will accept evolution, yet college biology instructors teaching evolution at public institutions often have religious beliefs and cultures that are different from their religious students. This difference in religious beliefs and cultures may be a barrier to effective evolution educ...

The purposes of this research were 1) to investigate Thai and non-Thai teachers’ perspectives on peer feedback activities in English oral presentations; 2) compare the teachers, 3) explore possible reasons affecting their real classroom practices. study was conducted with 5 foreign instructors. Questionnaires, interviews, observations used collect data. Descriptive statistics content analysis e...

background and aims. recent progresses in preventive dentistry and their correct application in many developed countries have remarkably decreased the rate of oro-dental diseases in children and teenagers, while the rate of oro-dental diseases is on the rise among the children in developing countries. the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of educating school health care instructors b...

Feedback is considered to be the bridge between what has been learned and what the student should know. Feedback can correct misconceptions, motivate learners, stimulate deep thinking, and guide future behavior. However, in the online environment instructors must rely upon technologies to deliver feedback to students. To better understand the prompts and processes for online delivery of feedbac...

• We created learning interactions with white instructors and black or white learners. • Instructors’ implicit bias predicted black, but not white, learner test performance. • This effect was mediated by coder-rated instructor anxiety and lesson quality. • New participants watched video of the cross-race lessons to test lesson quality. • Instructors’ implicit bias also predicted test performanc...