Extending student knowledge and interest through super-curricular activities

Medical Student Mental Health 3.0: Improving Student Wellness Through Curricular Changes

Medical education can have significant negative effects on the well-being of medical students. To date, efforts to improve student mental health have focused largely on improving access to mental health providers, reducing the stigma and other barriers to mental health treatment, and implementing ancillary wellness programs. Still, new and innovative models that build on these efforts by direct...

Student Leadership Development Through General Classroom Activities

Managing knowledge through everyday activities

Ever since man first shared the knowledge of how to make fire with his fellow human beings, the management of knowledge has been employed by masters training their apprentices and by parents teaching their children. Managing knowledge is hence no new phenomenon. In recent years, however, the importance of knowledge in business and industry has risen dramatically, and shifted from being one reso...

Putting the Student in the Center: Motivating Interest through Student Relevancy

1 " We have not yet seen what man can make of man. " – B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom & Dignity INTRODUCTION Cognitive learning theories, no matter how perfectly realized in classroom instructional design, have been of little effect when students' interests were not addressed. Without curiosity, an impenetrable wall existed between the student and teacher that was only breached with the strictes...

Global Knowledge, Local Solutions: Interest Rate and Monetary Policy