in medicine, there is a rapid development of a knowledge base. medical professionals need to sustain and advance their competence to practice in response to these varieties. so, there is increased interest in self-directed learning methods. study guides can make a major contribution to self-directed learning. this study was carried out to evaluate the effect of study guides on improving self-le...

1269 EDUCATIONFORUM A t many colleges and universities, the traditional model of science instruc-tion—a professor lecturing a large group of students—is being transformed into one in which students play a more active role in learning. This has been attributed to mounting evidence that traditional lectures, recitations, and laboratory sessions do not guarantee that students develop deep understa...

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Narrative-centered learning environments offer significant potential for supporting guided exploratory learning. By taking advantage of the inherent structure of narrative, narrative-centered environments provide students with engaging worlds in which they actively participate in motivating story-based problemsolving activities. Two key challenges posed by narrativecentered environments for gui...

Online education became more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries around world, including Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. This study aims at assessing impacts on learning and skills of two student-centered instructional strategies (problem-based (PBL) just-in-time teaching (JiTT)) used online their implementation challenges. The PBL JiTT were implemented modules ta...

This paper discusses undergraduate ethics education from the point of view of a learning-outcomes-centered approach to curriculum design. It aims to identify the kinds of learning-outcomes that Ethics Across the Curriculum programs ought to aim at and be judged successful by. The first section explains the learning-outcomes-centered approach to designing and evaluating curriculum proposals. The...

In this paper we use a critically reflexive research approach to analyze our efforts to implement transformative learning in food systems education in a land grant university by applying scholarly tools to the teaching processes and its learning outcomes. As a team of learners across the educational hierarchy, we evaluate our efforts of creating transformational learning outcomes through facili...

MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder in engineering education. Her research interests include engineering student learning, diversity and recruitment. Her current research is centered on the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity, recruitment, and retention in engineering. She is a Co-Director of the Engineering for America...

This study investigates the implementation of an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) professional development program on instructional practices of elementary teachers. The research assesses to what extent teachers implement IWB-related strategies (e.g., technology-pedagogy correspondence, interactivity types, teaching-learning mode, differentiated learning, student-centered learning, multimedia princ...