Casagrand J, Semsar K. Redesigning a course to help students achieve higher-order cognitive thinking skills: from goals and mechanics to student outcomes. Adv Physiol Educ 41: 194–202, 2017; doi:10.1152/advan.00102.2016.—Here we describe a 4-yr course reform and its outcomes. The upper-division neurophysiology course gradually transformed from a traditional lecture in 2004 to a more student-cen...

Joanna Dickert is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research and National Fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University. In this role, she directly advises and supports undergraduate students through each phase of the research process beginning with proposal development through learning assessment and program evaluation. She is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Evaluation and Measurement a...

The flipped classroom (FC) approach to teaching has been increasingly employed in undergraduate medical education in recent years. In FC applications, students are first exposed to content via online resources. Subsequent face-to-face class time can then be devoted to student-centered activities that promote active learning. Although the FC has been well received by students in other contexts, ...

The application of current information technology in education, especially multimedia network technology, has brought about major changes the content and methods instruction. It replaced conventional teacher-centered, textbook-centered, classroom-centered teaching environment with a student-centered, technology-based learning that includes rich resources virtual reality. Through interaction bet...

Student-centered problem-based learning (PBL) has been implemented as an alternative curriculum by several medical schools in the United States and elsewhere. Recently, attempts to integrate PBL with lecture-based curricula have created "hybrid" curricula with varying amounts of the philosophical underpinnings of student-centered PBL. Greater clinical and research demands on faculty time threat...

Narrative-centered learning environments tightly integrate educational subject matter and interactive stories, where students serve as active participants in story-centric problem-solving scenarios. Embedding scaffolding within the storyline of a narrative-centered learning environment is a discreet approach to supporting studentsÕ learning processes without diminishing the motivational benefit...