The development of innovative strategies to teach key stereochemical concepts has been an ongoing, evolutionary process at our University. Initially, the ALCHEMY molecular modeling program was used to give demonstrations within the lecture hall setting. While successful, these demonstrations did not allow student active learning. Thus, a more interactive approach was sought. To this end, a tuto...

Objectives: In order to facilitate and optimize learning process, there is need to evaluate preferred choice of teaching methods among dental students, especially in Indian scenario wherein lecturing remains the most commonly employed method of teaching. The aim of the present study was to assess and compare learning approaches among the male and female undergraduate dental students. Materials ...

We discover a strong relation between two known learning models: stream-based active learning and perfect selective classification (an extreme case of ‘classification with a reject option’). For these models, restricted to the realizable case, we show a reduction of active learning to selective classification that preserves fast rates. Applying this reduction to recent results for selective cla...

The competition fostered in today's environment is demanding increased accountability of collegiate instructors and re-evaluation of traditional teaching methods. Without reliable and valid instructional measurement systems, it is virtually impossible to benchmark new techniques or identify effective instructors. In addition, these measures need to be comprehensive. This research describes the ...

Teaching in a Teacher centric manner has been the mainframe teaching style in engineering education, however students feel it as a single sided approach and feel they are only passive listeners thus this style has now paved way to a Learner centric style of teaching-learning which is ACTIVE LEARNING, wherein every student is actively involved in one or the other form of learning and thus gets a...

In Part I of “Taking a Scientifıc Approach to Science Education” (Microbe, April 2015, p. 152) we focused on the research on learning and teaching in undergraduate science. Our focus here is to address why these improved teaching methods are not the norm in college and university science classes, and what it will take to achieve widespread adoption. In Part I we discussed the cognitive psycholo...

Mixed-initiative classifier training, where the human teacher can choose which items to label or to label items chosen by the computer, has enjoyed empirical success but without a rigorous statistical learning theoretical justification. We analyze the label complexity of a simple mixed-initiative training mechanism using teaching dimension and active learning. We show that mixed-initiative trai...

Learning by interactive arts methods is a non-traditional approach to new creative teaching methods, in which young children are simultaneously engaged to feel and understand the original concept of core content areas in education, such as science, technology and math from a broad perspective. This article is an attempt to investigate the question of “how to keep young children’s creativity ali...

– In higher education, the trend continues to shift from traditional teaching methods to student-centered strategies that are known to promote learning. At the same time, the integration of online education into the mainstream of higher education is intensifying. This paper addresses the problem of adapting classroom strategies for asynchronous online learning, so as to derive a learning model ...