BACKGROUND Although current literature supports the benefits of family-centered rounds on medical education, few studies have explored students' perceptions of family-centered rounds. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to provide a better and broader understanding of the effect of family-centered rounds on medical student education. METHODS During the inpatient portion of the third-year pedi...

AIM We aimed to evaluate an interactive problem-solving approach for teaching traumatology from perspectives of students and consider its implications on Faculty development. METHODS A two hour problem-solving, interactive tutorial on traumatology was structured to cover main topics in trauma management. The tutorial was based on real cases covering specific topics and objectives. Seven tutor...

Teacher-dominated classrooms with some student-centered elements are a perplexing phenomenon of Chinese mathematics classrooms. In-depth exploration of this phenomenon is helpful for understanding the features of mathematics teaching in China. This paper demonstrates how the teacher can encourage students to actively generate knowledge under the teacher’s control from a perspective of variation...

This article describes the design, execution and outcomes of a Web-based course in cable telecommunications offered jointly at two U.S. universities. The goal was to create an online learning community where inter-university student teams collaborate electronically to learn through case-based problem solving. The main features were distributed team-centered learning, case method, online access ...

The main contribution of this PhD thesis is: A proposal for Student Modeling based upon Cognitive Maps. Its purpose is to anticipate the effects that a teaching-learning experience will produce on a student before its delivery. Thus, this dissertation focuses on the Student Modeling from the causal-effect perspective. Also, our approach aims to predict outcomes stemmed from teaching-learning se...

The swift development of multimedia technology is further promoting the College English Teaching reform. College English autonomous learning model, based on a combination of student-centered teaching concept with multimedia technology, is one of the most important developing trends in the process of the reform. This paper discusses the difference of student’s autonomous learning ability between...

Nowadays, in line with trends in language teaching that follow the use of student-centered teaching/testing activities, there is growing consensus that students differ in their multiple intelligences. Furthermore, self-efficacy is one of the determining factors of success for people almost in any context. Assuming that the multiple intelligences profiles in tandem with self-efficacy of teachers...

Despite widespread calls for reform in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, effecting lasting change in instructor practice is challenging to achieve. This article describes the results of a 2-yr research study that involved efforts to develop the pedagogical expertise of a group of anatomy and physiology instructors at the college level. Data were collecte...