background and purpose: small group teaching(sgt) in is a known method for developing intellectual skills, changing attitudes and encouraging the taking of responsibilities for learning. this study was an attempt to compare students’ attitudes and knowledge scores on sgt and lecture -based teaching (lbt). methods: 22 first year medical students were enrolled in a course using two methods (lectu...

Underlying any learning and teaching process is a set of preferred Learning Styles (LSs) and Teaching Styles (TSs) which epitomize the overall educational policy and identification of which is sine qua non for any reform of the educational system. This ex-post-facto study scrutinized preference of Iranian EFL teachers' for Expert, Formal Authority, Personal Model, Facilitator, and Delegator TSs...

: This study investigated the impact of audio-visual input enhancement teaching techniques on improving English as Foreign Language (EFL) learnersˈ collocation learning as well as their accuracy concerning collocation use in narrative writing. In addition, it compared the impact and efficiency of audio-visual input enhancement in two learning contexts, namely traditional and mo...

Introduction: In the new concept of medical education, creativitydevelopment is an important goal. The aim of this research wastoidentify a model for developing critical thinking among studentswith the special focus on learning environment and learning style.Methods: This applied and cross-sectional study was conductedamong all students studying in undergraduate and professionaldoctorate progra...

We propose and study a new intelligent teaching paradigm called active teaching in this paper. In contrast to active learning, we assume that the learner can only passively conduct inductive learning from the given examples, but the teacher (oracle) can actively provide “good” examples to the learner, in order to speed up the teaching (learning) process. We establish the framework with four spe...

., life long learning is increasingly acknowledged to be a characteristic of professionalism. new information is being generated with increasing rapidity and educators must be able to cope with it. to study the effects of educational workshops hold by edc of tums on the participant faculty. methods. the subjects of this cross-sectional descriptive study were 375 faculty members of tums and the ...

Intersexuality, as the philosophical foundation of college English teaching and learning under the network environment, facilitates integration of educational technology and foreign language teaching. On the basis of this philosophical idea, the author advances three principles to follow in college English teaching and learning through online learning community: mutual respect and equal dialogu...

introduction traditional teacher-centered methods of teaching and learning are passive and affected by teacher's functions and horizons. today, active teaching methods include teaching  students to be able to observe the situation for exploring and thinking deeper about the issue or problem . so the aim of this study is to survey students' views about the advantages of quizzes  in stu...

Accepting that learning is dialogic necessitates the development of teaching and learning activities that support a learning-conversation. Further, Blended Learning requires learning technologies to support the conventional teaching settings by constructing activities that enhance, rather than simply replace, the conventional teaching settings. Just-in-Time Teaching is one such strategy that ac...

introduction: the most important change in medical education is a shift from didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching to the use of interactive, problem-based, student-centered learning. student-centered approach is a teaching approach t that encompasses replacing lectures with active learning, integrating self-paced learning programs and cooperative group situations, ultimately hol...