This paper presents initial efforts in the implementation of innovative methods in teaching engineering, in particular using the Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach. This paper elaborates the current practice of the PBL teaching method within the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya. Pertaining issues include the integration of the PBL method into the overall teaching me...

This article describes research on the learning of object-oriented programming (OOP) by novices. During two academic years, we taught OOP to high school students, using Java and BlueJ. Our approach to teaching featured: objects-first, teaching composed classes relatively early, deferring the teaching of main methods, and focusing on class structure before algorithms. The research used a constru...

Discussions related to teaching deaf students in Brazil are mainly focused on language problems, and only a few address other issues, for example, teaching science for this group. During the observation of the recurrent successful results obtained by the experimental methodology used in science short courses for secondary school Deaf pupils, performed by the Deaf Project—UFRJ, the possibility o...

We describe a methodology for enabling an intelligent teaching system to make high level strategy decisions on the basis of low level student modeling information. This framework is less costly to construct, and superior to hand coding teaching strategies as it is more responsive to the learner’s needs. In order to accomplish this, reinforcement learning is used to learn to associate superior t...

This paper investigates the effect of the integration of computer simulations in the traditional teaching methodology on learning effectiveness of a group of students having significant variation in marks obtained in pre-learning examination. For comparison another group of students having a relatively low distribution in marks have also been examined for their learning effectiveness when tradi...

Limited curriculum enhancement resources are available to psychiatric nurse educators. This article provides a clinical teaching guide for novice instructors teaching an introductory psychiatric nursing course. The investigation is grounded in a constructivist theoretical framework and extends a previous case study project that explored how students learn during a mental health practicum (Melro...

OBJECTIVE To investigate practical teaching of nurse residents in a multidisciplinary residency in oncology. METHOD A qualitative descriptive study grounded in the problematization methodology and its steps, represented by the Maguerez Arch. Data were analyzed using content analysis. RESULTS Potentiating and limiting elements of the residency guided the design of a practical teaching protoc...