Innovative Technologies in Teaching Students of Technical Specialties: Podcasting.

Improving Activity and Motivation of Students with Innovative Teaching and Learning Technologies

In this paper, we present new technologies that can be used in lectures to increase the activity and motivation of students. The poor communication between students and teacher is one of the major problems in mass lectures. However, mobile devices can reduce this problem and by improving the interactive communication help to increase the motivation of the students. We have implemented a set of ...

Use of Podcasting as an Innovative Asynchronous E-Learning Tool for Students

Podcasting is an innovative, asynchronous communication tool. A pilot study was conducted to assess the utility of podcasting as an educational tool for undergraduate medical students. A paper-and-pencil questionnaire was developed and distributed to the 40 first-year students enrolled in the francophone stream of the medical curriculum at the University of Ottawa, Canada. A majority of partici...

Podcasting and MP3 players: emerging education technologies.

Innovative methods in teaching psychiatry to medical students

Background and Objectives: To test the conjecture that the innovative method to teach psychosomatic psychiatry previously reported will be confirmed as beneficial in the training of medical students in the field of general psychiatry. Methods: The emphasis in this course is placed on the discussion of clinical cases, bedside clinical teaching, and a research-oriented part. The “Innovative Teach...

the effect of efl teachers beliefs about teaching reading strategies on their students success and motivation in reading comprehension

previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...