Physics Education Research (PER) is currently facing significant difficulties in disseminating research-based knowledge and instructional strategies to other faculty. Co-teaching is a promising and cost-effective alternative to traditional professional development that may be applicable in many situations. This paper discusses the rationale for coteaching and our initial experience with co-teac...

Background & Aims of the Study : The effective clinical training is from essential and important parts of medical education. Survey theviewpoints of medical students in this area as the pivot of education can be an effective step in planning of clinical education program and effective and efficient evaluation of it. This study was conducted by the aim of determination of medical externs and int...

Providing an effective mechanism for an instructor to interact with one or more remote classrooms is a complex problem in synchronous distance learning. Although a human operator at the remote classroom could be used to direct a video camera and hence provide feedback to the instructor as to the state of the class and to coordinate the instructor’s attention to the class as questions are raised...

Reductions in perceptual fluency have been shown to negatively impact attitudes towards learning material, but not learning itself. The current study extends this work to spoken presentations and examines whether the presence of a foreign accent negatively affects learners’ experience in an online learning environment. Results indicate that the presence of an instructor accent, consistent with ...

Effective learning is an outcome of effective teaching. Effective teaching, in turn, requires effective instructors. This study addresses relevant issues related to effective learning by comparing student perceptions of instructor characteristics in a b-school. It is based on the conceptual premise that effective college learning depends more on personality characteristics which students percei...

Modell, Harold I., Joel A. Michael, Tom Adamson, and Barbara Horwitz. Enhancing active learning in the student laboratory. Adv Physiol Educ 28: 107–111, 2004; 10.1152/advan.00049.2003.— We previously examined how three approaches to directing students in a laboratory setting impacted their ability to repair a faulty mental model in respiratory physiology (Modell, HI, Michael JA, Adamson T, Gold...