introduction: in traditional medical education systems much interest is placed on the cramming of basic and clinical facts without considering their applicability in the future professional career. the aim of this study is to evaluate a novice medical training method (problem-based learning) as compared to the contemporary teacher-based medical education or traditional methods. methods: selecti...

In the Winter, 2015, issue of The College Quarterly, Donovan McFarlane provided some guidelines for the use of case studies in college teaching based in part on his own experience and in part on the published literature. This was not the first time that case-based teaching was the focus of work in the College Quarterly. Skliarenko & Bhardwaj (2004) provided a very brief introduction to case-bas...

This paper presents initial efforts in the implementation of innovative methods in teaching engineering, in particular using the Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach. This paper elaborates the current practice of the PBL teaching method within the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya. Pertaining issues include the integration of the PBL method into the overall teaching me...

Purpose Given today’s pressing societal challenges, business schools are increasingly expected to incorporate sustainability in their curricula. Yet, while research on corporate is the rise, there less innovation teaching methods as most institutions rely traditional teach classroom. This paper aims present case-based debate an appropriate method for exposing students complexity of issues. Desi...

The aim of this position paper is to stress the need for considering an event-oriented perspective when modelling problem situations in Textual Case-Based Reasoning (TCBR). Therefore, we give several examples where events appear naturally on the text and can serve as basis for constructing features for cases. We also argue that the current, single-sided, object-oriented perspective is due to th...