BACKGROUND Medical students, junior hospital doctors on rotation and general practice (GP) registrars are undertaking their training in clinical general practices in increasing numbers in Australia. Some practices have four levels of learner. This study aimed to explore how multi-level teaching (also called vertical integration of GP education and training) is occurring in clinical general prac...

This paper analyzes the existing problems in the teaching of memory management of operating systems, presents a reformed teaching scheme, and introduces its adoption and effects in teaching practices. This teaching scheme consists of a head model, a main body model and a summary model, among which the four-space summary model is the most distinguishable characteristic. The scheme has been imple...

The study, investigated in Luzhou Medical College, aims to find out whether the use of Multimedia Monitoring System is more effective for medical teachers’ training on teaching ability compared to full-time teaching. Two groups of medical teachers have been involved in for the study. The first group has been allowed to practice the skills through micro-teaching with the aid of Multimedia Monito...

BACKGROUND In Hong Kong, the population is at risk of seasonal influenza infection twice a year. Seasonal influenza is significantly associated with the increased hospitalization of children. Maintaining personal hygiene and vaccination are the most effective measures to prevent influenza infection. Research demonstrates a positive relationship between the health practices applied by parents an...

This paper reports on an exploratory study that explores the instructional patterns within English as a Foreign Language (EFL) secondary school classrooms in Syria. Recently, the Syrian Ministry of Education (MoE) has introduced a new national curriculum which recommends a shift in EFL teachers’ instructional practices. Despite this costly innovation, there has been no attempt to check whether ...

This article describes a small-scale study that explored the relationship between the pedagogical practices characterised as “open” and the existing model of undergraduate teaching and learning at a large research-intensive university (RIU). The aim was to determine the factors that might enable (conversely impede) the greater uptake of open educational resources (OER) in universities of this t...

From “Meet the Marketers” sessions in lectures, to onlineopportunities for students grappling with real-world marketing, I apply a rich range of innovative teaching approaches to engagestudents in their learning. My teaching philosophy incorporatesproblem-based, collaborative and research-led learning andteaching. Directly involving hundreds of students in lectureactivities,...

This article discusses the way parents’ past experiences influence the construction of their mathematical identities, their representations and their valorizations of current school mathematics, and how these factors mediate involvement with their children’s mathematical learning. Two different groups of parents, with and without teaching experience, were interviewed. Participants within the gr...