The research suggests that teachers need to keep abreast of new ideas about student learning and effective strategies for enhancing that learning, and that professional learning is an essential aspect of improving practice at the classroom level. Furthermore, the evidence suggests that traditional approaches to professional development, usually delivered away from the school and focusing on tea...

Introduction With the increasing sophistication of analytical tools the traditional classroom experiments in chemical analysis are rapidly becoming extinct. While the complexity of these new tools (e.g., mass spectrometers, gas chromatographs) requires the power of demonstration, their size, weight and the need for various utilities make them laboratory-bound. Thus, there is incentive for bring...

This chapter begins with an examination of adult learning theories. It follows with a brief overview of selected theories of adult development, including “traditional” theories that emphasize sequential and psychological development and alternative frameworks that are more concerned with the sociocultural context of development. Next I briefly review studies examining adults as learners in the ...

Use of Clickers in classroom teaching and learning has become growingly popular in USA. This study aims to identify whether use of Clickers in college English class can improve learners’ English proficiency and enhance students’ awareness of metacognition compared with traditional multimedia aided pedagogy in Malaysian contexts. By comparing the data obtained from three questionnaires and an IE...

Journal club (JC), as a pedagogical strategy, has long been used in graduate medical education (GME). As evidence-based medicine (EBM) becomes a mainstay in GME, traditional models of JC present a number of insufficiencies and call for novel models of instruction. A flipped classroom model appears to be an ideal strategy to meet the demands to connect evidence to practice while creating engaged...

The development of network technology brings wider imaginary space for teaching techniques reforms. The research on application of WeChat as the most popular social information platform in classroom teaching is receiving increasingly more attention. This paper discusses the establishment of WeChat-based piano teaching communication platform. WeChat platform provides students with creation, comm...