A shared document-based annotation tool was presented, and its usefulness in two different real-life web-based university-level courses (adult learners, n=27 and adolescent learners, n=23) was empirically investigated. The study design embodied three data collection phases: 1) a pre test measuring self-rated motivation, learning strategies, and social ability, 2) log file data analysis showing ...

BACKGROUND In 2002 Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network Internal Medicine residency program sought to establish a faculty development program for their teaching faculty that emphasized learner-centered teaching of patient-centered care. DESCRIPTION Medical educators trained in observational research practices shadowed teaching teams for 24 months and observed 24 General Internal Medicine...

One of the ways to ensure food safety is to educate the public. Of the organizations providing food safety education in the United States (U.S.), the Cooperative Extension System (CES) is one of the most reliable. The effectiveness CES programs depends not only on what is being taught but also on how it is taught. Both a needs-based curriculum and how that curriculum is delivered are equally im...

Critical thinking is often considered an essential learning outcome of institutions in higher education. Previous work has proposed three pedagogical strategies to address this goal: more active, student-centered in-class instruction, assessments which contain higher-order cognitive questions, and greater alignment within a classroom (i.e., high agreement of the cognitive level of learning obje...

Islamic Education Curriculum is designed to increase the students' faith and devotion Allah SWT formation of noble morality. Faith, morality could expectedly be achieved through Religious by firstly encouraging students have knowledge understanding comprehensively related teachings Islam capable carrying it out properly. Thus curriculum should able deliver that are balanced between acquisition ...

Being main teaching media and major source of comprehensive target language input, teacher talk plays an important role in learners' second-language acquisition. Under the trend of "learner-centered" teaching mode, some researchers think that the best teacher talk means less. But the author holds that, in Chinese second language classroom, it is not advisable to lay too much stress on the forma...