Increasing student numbers have encouraged universities to take greater interest in aids to conventional teaching methods. Television is establishing itself in this field, particularly when applied to clinical medicine, an aspect recently reviewed by Day (1972). In rheumatology this medium is little used at present. In his recent survey of teaching aids used in medical schools in Europe, Wood (...

Community development is generally considered to be a core component of social work practice and knowledge. Yet much professional social work education and discourse seems to relegate community development to the margins. This paper critically analyses the development of a community development subject within one particular Australian social work course. Particular attention is drawn to subject...

Electronic learning introduces a teaching device for deeper and more efficient learning. A study was conducted by the Pathology Department of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. The topic of practical pathology was selected earlier based on the curriculum. High-quality digital images of the slides were presented in the form of an e-file. The medical students were asked to regis...

the effect of concept mapping teaching method on the learning of health assessment lesson in nursing students of urmia nursing and midwifery faculty 2013    habibzadeh h [1] , moradi y [2] *,rasoli d [3] ,sheikhi n [4]     received: 23 jul , 2013 accepted: 16 sep , 2013     abstract   background & aims : new educational strategies are needed in learning the basic issues in nursing education. de...

In this study, we developed a presentation software program (CodEx) for web programming language courses. It has functions to display sample source code, edit it, and display its execution result all in one slide. To evaluate the efficiency of this software (CodEx), two experiments were conducted. First, reviews done by nine teachers proved its efficiency in teaching programming language. Secon...

Deductive refers to a more teacher-centered approach to instruction, where inductive For a clearer understanding of these methods visit Dr. Bilash's page titled The lesson I have attached below is an example of an inductive approach. In the western world, deductive teaching approaches are common in A teacher writes on the board a few examples of simple present and simple past. (Using Inductive ...

In the Romanian penitentiary establishments and those of other European countries one talks about the formal and informal education. Since the correspondence education system, important steps have been made towards the e-learning didactics which are reflected by the modern teaching methods (through ICT) used even by the penitentiary system. The Moodle platform, the web site with certain specifi...

Teachers must be able to adapt to a rapidly changing IT knowledge and technology. This requirement is further compounded by the need that this knowledge and technology be incorporated in the curriculum at the same rate. This paper presents a strategic approach for updating curriculum and technical know-how of information technology through training the IT trainers. This approach is expected to ...

The main differences between American and Chinese higher education are displayed in administrative system, teaching methods, curriculum, assessment and moral education. However, the two countries also have enlightened each other for the past periods in educational idea and other aspects of higher education. The two countries both have advantages and shortcomings, so they open to each other and ...