Interactivity, a fundamental aspect of traditional face-to-face teaching, is central concern in the design planning and organization technology mediated instructional settings online learning, because it crucial knowledge acquisition development cognitive skills, intrinsic to effective practice individual discovery. The present paper aims critically review set recent representative empirical st...

In this study, the author describes the nature and occurrence of knowledge-construction links (KCLs) in 3 6th-grade classrooms that varied in degree of learner centeredness. KCLs are operationalized as prior learning that students bring to their current classroom experiences and include school and nonschool experiences. They are hypothesized to facilitate a knowledge-construction process that v...

This study examined relationships between students’ perceptions of course-related interaction and their course satisfaction within the learner-centered paradigm in distance education. A Students’ Perceived Interaction Survey (SPIS) instrument was developed to examine nine separate hypotheses about the nature of course-related interaction. A volunteer sample of 855 students from the 949 students...

This qualitative inquiry project investigates the political and policy discourses related to education reform in Taiwan. Specifically, it examines the science education reform policies and policy leaders’ vision for the reform. This work also reveals the unique challenges involved in implementing contemporary science education approaches in a Confucian learning culture. Data sources included re...

Effective implementation of robust team-based care in the United States requires significant training for all team members. This education is integral to creating a culture of collaboration and respect among interprofessional members of the health care team. The lack of interprofessional clinical educational experiences contributes to a "hidden curriculum" that reinforces the problematic view t...

From an investigation about the factors influencing the trilingual education in Chinese ethnic minority regions, the author find out that the minority students are incompetent in English learning. Inappropriate teaching strategies, learning materials as well as language policy hinder the development of teaching and learning progress in those areas, which still causes the minority students’ lack...

OBJECTIVE Diabetes errors, particularly insulin administration errors, can lead to complications and death in the pediatric inpatient setting. Despite a lecture-format curriculum on diabetes management at our children's hospital, resident diabetes-related errors persisted. We hypothesized that a multifaceted, learner-centered diabetes curriculum would help reduce pathway errors. RESEARCH DESI...

At the brink of a new millennium, a shift in pedagogy toward a learner-centered approach is emerging, where critical thinking skills are fostered through problembased learning opportunities and innovative approaches to instruction and student work assessment. New media technologies are being effectively used to help achieve such goals in engineering education. This paper describes technology-ai...

Adaptive Learning concept has apprehended the interest of educational actors and partners, especially in higher education. However, the implementation of this concept has faced many challenges, particularly in Adaptive Learning Systems (ALS). The present paper aims to give the foundation of a framework for an ALS that gives extensive attention at each stage of the design process to the end-user...

Motivation Educators from different institutions and programs often face similar challenges: they must teach a significant level of required, standardized, knowledge. Likewise, effective instructors work to increase student time-on-task, encourage participation from a broad range of students of different backgrounds and various levels of preparedness, while working to develop critical life-long...