While researchers working within the Student Learning Research framework have developed or adapted questionnaires to gather information on students’ experiences of blended learning, no questionnaire has been developed to enquire about teachers’ experiences in such learning environments. The present article reports the development and testing of a novel questionnaire on ‘approaches to e-teaching...

The quality of teachers prepared for basic education in Africa and other continents of the world is a consequence of the knowledge of content acquired and the pedagogy. Effective teaching practice supervision could determine the level of teacher trainees’ performance in the art of teaching. The study investigated the differences in performance of teacher trainees who embarked on continuous Teac...

As part of a broader study of the impact of teaching environment and preparation on the conceptions of teaching and learning expressed by our graduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) and undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs), we track shifts in instructor awareness of student ideas over the course of a week of preparing for and teaching in the Tutorials in Introductory Physics. Since TAs and LAs in...

BACKGROUND Cultural diversity teaching is increasingly present in both undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes. This study explored the views of stakeholders in medical education about the potential outcomes of cultural diversity teaching and how they thought cultural diversity programmes might be effectively evaluated. METHODS A semi-structured interview was undertaken with 61 sta...

1 Malgorzata S. Zywno, Ryerson University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, T217, Eric Palin Hall, 350 Victoria St., Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada, Phone: 416-979-5000 ext. 6105, Fax: 416-979-5280, Email: [email protected] Abstract  Poor teaching, especially in math, engineering and science programs, is the most common complaint among students, contributing to dropout rates....

Teachers in General Practice until the final year of the undergraduate curriculum.1,2 For these reasons it is worthwhile to review the present teaching arrangements and to examine whether or not there is any evidence that University of Bristol students are at a disadvantage in their learning opportunities. Since 1971, the General Practice teaching has taken place during a 9-week 'Medicine in the

In recent years, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan promoting e-classroom primary schools have also contributed to the purchase of interactive electronic whiteboards for teaching. However, compared to the traditional blackboard teaching the researchers tried to explore the issues whether whiteboard can enhance the effectiveness of learning and whether teachers using whiteboards will cause inco...

Teaching reform of Spinning course is discussed based on spinning course characteristics and practice in this paper, reasonable setting of teaching contents, modern methods application, flexibility of classroom teaching, improvement of methods, the organization of exchange and discussion between students , setting of teaching equipments, sound arrangement of exercitation and sophisticated train...

To optimize the soft environment of practical teaching is to standardize the management of teaching of art design. Improving the management system in accordance with industrial and enterprise standards, and promoting the integration of production, teaching and research enable the combination of the practical teaching of the art design major and the international production technology practice. ...

Recent calls for improvement in undergraduate education within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines are hampered by the methods used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Faculty members at research universities are commonly assessed and promoted mainly on the basis of research success. To improve the quality of undergraduate teaching across all disciplines, not on...