Outside the Classroom

Outside the classroom: teaching and evaluating future physicians.

Effective extensive reading outside the classroom: A large scale experiment

We report on a large-scale implementation of extensive reading (ER) in a university setting in Japan where all students were required to read outside class time as part of their course requirement. A pre/posttest comparison between the 2009 cohort of students who read outside of class and the 2008 cohort who did no outside reading shows that the implementation of ER resulted in highly significa...

Educational leadership: benefits of stepping outside the classroom.

Although most educators have their greatest impact in the classroom, the increased need for diverse learning activities has created new opportunities for leadership. Moreover, many Tenure and Promotion Committees are finding that it is no longer sufficient to consider only lecture hours when evaluating a faculty member's contributions to the teaching mission of an institution. Accordingly, the ...

Challenge of engagement inside and outside the classroom: the future for universities

Are children participating in a quasi-experimental education outside the classroom intervention more physically active?

BACKGROUND Education outside the classroom (EOtC) is a curriculum-based approach to teaching that has shown positive associations with children's physical activity and academic learning in small-scale case studies. The purpose of this large-scale quasi-experimental study was to determine if children who participate regularly in EOtC spend more time being physically active than children who do n...