The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted English language teaching (ELT) in many ways, and it pushed educators to the limit. Due shift virtual education, non-mediated in-person support that instructors used acknowledge their students’ needs, is no longer available. A question of significant relevance this ongoing emergency is: How do differentiate remote instruction? Differentiated Remote Instruction...

Nesbitt LM, Cliff WH. How the story unfolds: exploring ways faculty develop open-ended and closed-ended case designs. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 279–285, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.90158.2008.— Open-ended or closed-ended case study design schemes offer different educational advantages. Anatomy and physiology faculty members who participated in a conference workshop were given an identical case about blo...

Open-ended or closed-ended case study design schemes offer different educational advantages. Anatomy and physiology faculty members who participated in a conference workshop were given an identical case about blood doping and asked to build either an open-ended study or a closed-ended study. The workshop participants created a rich array of case questions. Participant-written learning objective...

this study was conducted in english for academic purposes (eap) context to explore iranian teachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) as well as to scrutinize how their cognitions were practiced in eap classes. to this end, two elt teachers and two content instructors (i.e. subject experts who teach eap courses in addition to...

Hands Free Always On (HFAO) technology, such as the next generation of smart glasses, will likely become invisible and undetectable, turn up in classrooms in the near future, and change teaching and learning. An exploratory study analyzed four focus groups with faculty members at a research university. The focus group process and the data analysis were guided by four research questions: (1) How...

Though interaction is often billed as a significant component of successful online learning, empirical evidence of its importance as well as practical guidance or specific interaction techniques continue to be lacking. In response, this study utilizes both quantitative and qualitative data to investigate how instructors and students perceive the importance of online interaction and which instru...

Before the 21st century education reform, most university teachers considered assessment quality to be based on studied material comprehensiveness. The current requirements of society and market have given rise a considerable change in dealing with assessing information at level from content memorisation using daily life do various tasks; for instance, solving problems, applying new situations,...

BACKGROUND Two major portals are available for delivery of medication into the cervical epidural space: interlaminar and transforaminal. The choice of which approach to use is commonly made by assessing the patient's structural pathology, one's skill in performing each procedure, and then weighing the advantages versus the risk associated with the particular technique. Over the past several yea...

The original MASS course on which this text is based ran for 14 weeks, with three 50-minute lectures in each week (given by the second author). This structure has been preserved in the present book and may be used as a rough guide if you wish to use this book as the text for a class. However, some circumstances of the original course are worth noting. As part of the MASS program, the students, ...