Interest in conducting problem-based learning (PBL) on-line has increased to meet student and physician schedules. Little research describes skills needed to facilitate PBL on-line. In this paper we studied teaching presence in asynchronous PBL groups. Two raters, with average inter-rater agreements of 0.80, used an existing code to measure teaching presence in 62 PBL case discussions facilitat...

⎯ This paper presents a case study on the challenges of teaching state-of-the-art design to undergraduate students. The issues encountered are exposed specifically through the discussion of the development and teaching of a comprehensive first course in Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) design at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Index Terms ⎯ Design Education, Undergraduate Education,...

BACKGROUND Coeliac disease is a relatively common condition which is usually managed by placing patients on a gluten free diet. Follow up biopsies to confirm histological recovery are controversial with a considerable variation in practice observed. AIM To determine the length of time to histopathological recovery in a group of coeliac disease patients and its associations with clinicopatholo...

This contribution to the discussion focuses on which conditions at universities need to be established so that academic teaching skills become relevant to the career of university teachers. To find an answer, current findings on academic teaching are summarized from the literature.

Brain based teaching and learning strategies have been presenting themselves at an increasing rate within our school systems. Educators need to focus on at-risk and special education students and identify strategies that are effective with these populations. Two African American special education students attending school at an urban school within the Rochester City School District participated...

The educational goal of the mechatronics specialty is to improve students’ self-learning and research ability, as well as to provide them with sound theoretical foundations and rich practical experience. The PEDC (problem, exploration, discussion, case) innovative inquiry teaching model is proposed in this article. A comparative study of two classes of mechatronics specialty students, forming a...

This paper presents the approach currently followed by our research team in teaching multibody dynamics to aerospace engineering students at the University “Politecnico di Milano”, Italy. The high level of complexity in multibody dynamics, both in terms of the physical phenomena that are modeled and of architecture of the numerical codes needed to solve them, makes this task extremely hard, esp...

One of the teaching methods available to teachers in the ‘andragogic’ model of teaching is the method of ‘Socratic Seminars’. This is a teacher-directed form of instruction in which questions are used as the sole method of teaching, placing students in the position of having to recognise the limits of their knowledge, and hopefully, motivating them to learn. This paper aims at initiating the di...

Beyond looking both ways in our Classroom Activities section, including a free html version and a pdf version free The Science Standards addressed are on each activity page. Resources for Teaching about Biogeochemical Cycles, A collection of resources for teaching about biogeochemical cycles including links. about reform in teaching methods since cumculum reform, resulting in teachers the best ...