Investigating students' conceptual change about colour in an innovative research-based teaching sequence

Collaborative Education: an innovative method of teaching undergraduate nursing students

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 ...

An innovative approach to educating medical students about pharmaceutical promotion.

Prescription drugs comprise approximately 9% of the total cost of health care in the United States. The manner in which doctors obtain information about new and changing pharmaceuticals obviously has the potential to have a profound impact on health care costs, pharmaceutical companies' profits, and the quality of health care. Patterns learned in medical school undoubtedly influence physicians'...

Innovative "Case-Based Integrated Teaching" in an undergraduate medical curriculum: development and teachers' and students' responses.

INTRODUCTION We developed "Case-Based Integrated Teaching (C-BIT)" in our medical school to integrate the content of various disciplines through a core patient design that introduces major diseases to students. This article presents the concepts, development and initial evaluation of the teachers' and students' responses to C-BIT. MATERIALS AND METHODS Teachers' manuals for 18 major diseases ...

Innovative Research-Based Approaches to Learning and Teaching

in the Netherlands. It provides background analysis for the Innovative Learning Environments (ILE) project, by synthesizing different approaches aimed at innovating learning based on insights from learning research. It explicitly builds on the summary provided in the earlier ILE publication Innovating to Learn, Learning to Innovate (OECD Publishing, 2008) by Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereite...