Using Anthropomorphism and Fictional Story Development to Enhance Student Learning

Using Anthropomorphism and Fictional Story Development to Enhance Student Learning†

ePORTFOLIOS: USING TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE AND ASSESS STUDENT LEARNING

Tracking and assessing student learning outcomes within one course can be accomplished with relative ease. However, the true challenge lies within providing data for student learning outcomes for an entire program. The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover and explain the fundamental lessons learned from the beginning stages of ePortfolio implementation in a cohort master's degree p...

Using Interteaching to Enhance Student Engagement and Learning

83 T he less than adequate characteristics of traditional lecture-based educational methods are well established. Research indicates that lecture alone leads to student passivity, does little to promote retention of learned material, discourages interaction between students and instructors, and makes it difficult for instructors to obtain timely feedback about student understanding. Research on...

Using the electronic health record to enhance student learning.

(Fam Med 2010;42(1):14-5.) Editor’s Note: I welcome your comments about this feature. I also encourage all predoctoral directors to make copies of this feature and distribute it to their preceptors (with the appropriate Family Medicine citation). Send your submissions to [email protected]. John Delzell, Jr, MD, MSPH, University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, 3901 Rainb...

Developing Case Studies to Enhance Student Learning

In this paper we describe the cases developed in response to the multifaceted challenges we faced in educating IT professionals in intermediate-level programming. The challenges included: the practical nature of the subject, the level of skill attained, preparing students for the workplace and class size. We implemented ProblemBased Learning (PBL) as the teaching and learning method to meet the...