Does Active Learning Achieve Desired Outcomes: Conflicted Pedagogy?

E-Learning and Desired Learning Outcomes

E - learning , outcomes and pedagogy

A growing number of education systems are exploring the potential of e-learning to improve outcomes for students. There is also a great deal of hype about this; at times it seems as if e-learning tools are perceived to be an educational silver bullet. While a number of studies report on the success of using particular tools such as interactive whiteboards (IWBs) or report on how to create digit...

do interns achieve learning outcomes up to faculty

background and purpose: in an era of increasing professional accountability, there is a need for both medical educators and licensing bodies to identify the exit competencies expected from medical graduates. pediatrics department of isfahan university of medical sciences has defined learning outcomes that should be achieved in pediatric ambulatory setting and both learners and teachers were inf...

When Does Active Learning Work?

Active Learning (AL) methods seek to improve classifier performance when labels are expensive or scarce. We consider two central questions: Where does AL work? How much does it help? To address these questions, a comprehensive experimental simulation study of Active Learning is presented. We consider a variety of tasks, classifiers and other AL factors, to present a broad exploration of AL perf...

What does randomisation achieve?

What are the benefi ts of random allocation in clinical studies? John Worrall, a philosopher of science, recently questioned whether evidence-based medicine’s advice to base therapeutic decisions on the results of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) could be justifi ed.1 2 Here we provide a response to Worrall and others who challenge the epistemological value of RCTs. Worrall’s primary target ...