BACKGROUND Cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation (CPCR) training is essential for all hospital workers, especially junior residents who might become the manager of the resuscitation team. In our center, the traditional CPCR knowledge training curriculum for junior residents up to 5 years ago was lecture-based and had some faults. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a problem-based metho...

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of cooperative learning method in developing linguistic competence and critical thinking skills students. All subjects were taught lessons using lecture discussion approach alternately. The pseudo-experimental utilizing repeated measures design was used study. T-test compare mean scores on pretest/posttest achievement tests. found out that there is a...

Interteaching is a new method of classroom instruction that is based on behavioral principles but offers more flexibility than other behaviorally based methods. We examined the effectiveness of interteaching relative to a traditional form of classroom instruction-the lecture. In Study 1, participants in a graduate course in special education took short quizzes after alternating conditions of in...

BACKGROUND Generally in continuing education medical education (CME) the most time is consumed for in the planning and preparation of the event. This planning and preparation, however, needs recognition through an evaluative process. The purpose of this study was to evaluate neurology CME in two educational methods, lecture vs task-based learning, using Patton's utilisation focused model. MET...

INTRODUCTION Blended learning, a new approach in educational planning, is defined as an applying more than one method, strategy, technique or media in education. Todays, due to the development of infrastructure of Internet networks and the access of most of the students, the Internet can be utilized along with traditional and conventional methods of training. The aim of this study was to compar...

background: team-based learning is a structured type of cooperative learning that is becoming increasingly more popular in nursing education. this study compares levels of nursing students' perception of the psycho-social climate of the classroom between conventional lecture group and team-based learning group.   methods: in a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design 38 nursing stu...

In the last lecture we discussed the relationships between different modeling paradigms such as the Bayesian approach, Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) approach, Maximum Likelihood (ML) approach, and the Leastsquares (LS) method. In this lecture we first prove that equivalence of LS and ML under the assumption of normally distributed error. Then, the notions of the naive Bayesian classifier and the L...

AIM Course evaluations are often conducted and analyzed well after the course has taken place. By using a digital audience response system (ARS), it is possible to collect, view and discuss feedback during or directly following a course or lecture session. This paper analyzes a student evaluation of a lecture course with ARS to determine if significant differences exist between the results of t...

Over the past few years the question of whether the lecture is an effective teaching method has been one of the most heatedly debated topics in the field of higher education. While research on the effectiveness of lectures has been carried out since at least the 1960s, the value of the lecture has been increasingly questioned recently for a number of reasons that include waning lecture attendan...

In the previous lecture, we observed that it is possible to recover a sparse solution to Ax = b by solving a minimization problem involving the 1-norm. In this lecture, we consider a matrix A that can be written as A = L+ S, where L is a low rank matrix and S is a sparse matrix, and seek a method that recovers L and S. We remark that Lecture 26 forms a sequal to these notes and addresses the te...