Partnership in learning: how staff-student collaboration can innovate teaching

Teaching and learning in outpatients and beyond: how ambulatory care teaching can contribute to student learning in child health.

CURRENT CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS Medical school teaching in child health has traditionally been focused on the clinical problems seen in children, as inpatients, in tertiary care teaching hospitals. In recent years there has been a move to reduce inpatient stays and develop a more ambulatory model, with children being seen in rapid access or review clinics, to try to minimise the frequency and d...

How Learning Environments Can Stimulate Student Imagination

The purpose of this study was to investigate an array of environmental factors that can stimulate imagination and explore how these factors manifest in different design phases. The participants of this study were students in the field of educational technology from four universities across Taiwan. The instructional design process was divided into three major phases: analysis, design/development...

Student-Faculty Partnership for Deeper Learning

Blended learning: how can we optimise undergraduate student engagement?

BACKGROUND Blended learning is a combination of online and face-to-face learning and is increasingly of interest for use in undergraduate medical education. It has been used to teach clinical post-graduate students pharmacology but needs evaluation for its use in teaching pharmacology to undergraduate medical students, which represent a different group of students with different learning needs....

how digital libraries can support e-learning?

digital libraries offer opportunities for e-learning that are not possible in their physical counterparts. digital libraries complement other learning environments, such as those provided in distance education and courses offered online. like e-learning environments, they provide flexibility of time and place. digital libraries have the potential to offer unprecedented resources to support e-le...