Background: Virtual patients (VPs) were introduced at the dental school at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in 2002. The initial adoption of the VPs was in the field of comprehensive dentistry. In 2007 a prospective longitudinal study was initiated to experiment different models for increasing the adoption and use of VPs based on Rogers’s diffusion of innovations theory. The aim of this sub-study was...

It goes without saying that there are many influential factors affecting the success of any learning experience, and teachers are definitely among the significant factors influencing the process of teaching and learning. In this respect, the present study sought to investigate the prediction of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' learning approaches through their teachers’ nar...

In general, the learning process is done conventionally, where the learning process is done face to face between teachers with learners in the classroom. Teachers have a very important role in determining the quantity and quality of the implementation study. Therefore, teachers must think and plan carefully to improve learning opportunities for learners and improve the quality of teaching. Alon...

Background: In US, approximately 23% of children between the ages of 2-5 years are overweight or obese. Parents need access to information to create healthy home environments for obesity prevention, yet participation for in-person education programs is challenging. Web-based interventions are promising educational tools due to 24/7 availability. However, information is limited on their developm...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the Physical Education Teacher Attitudes Toward Fitness Tests Scale (PETAFTS) produces reliable and valid scores. There were 4 stages and 4 sets of participants in the development of the PETAFTS. First, the domains of attitude were defined and cognitive and affective components were developed, organized, and validated. In the second stage, 134 ...

The European Go-Lab project offers Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs) as open educational resources to support Inquiry-based Learning (IBL). To successfully exploit ILSs and implement IBL, proper support for orchestration is needed. Researchers have highlighted the complexity of orchestrating Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) scenarios and the need for supporting participants in this endeavour. In...

vs. Contextualized Representations During our initial team discussions, the engineering subject matter expert (SME) brought to our attention the fact that engineering textbooks at the college level typically represent engineering content in abstract form, that is, with generic symbols (Moore, Miller, Lesh, Stohlmann, & Kim, 2013; Nathan et al., 2013). The rest of the team was surprised to learn...

Although Basic Life Support (BLS) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) education is mandatory in secondary schools in Flanders, many schools do not programme this content because they lack teachers with expertise in this matter. This study aimed at investigating CPR skill performance and skill decay following reciprocal learning with task cards taught by an expert versus a non-expert teacher...

Le Châtelier’s principle and chemical equilibrium are considered two of the most difficult topics for students in high school chemistry, and despite the development of numerous simulations, software solutions have met with limited success. We present two case studies of expert teachers teaching Le Châtelier’s Principle and show how the findings of the case studies have informed the design of a ...

This article develops the concept-mapping method as a tool for enhancing teaching quality in higher education. In particular, it describes how concept mapping can be used to transform abstract knowledge and understanding into concrete visual representations that are amenable to comparison and measurement. The article describes four important uses of the method: the identification of prior knowl...