The purpose of this national survey was to explain the relationships between professors’ contextual characteristics, teaching conceptualizations and motivation, and the use of learnercentered teaching (LCT) methods in colleges of environmental, agricultural, applied, and life sciences. Three hundred and twenty-nine professors from land-grant universities (1862 & 1890) and state colleges partici...

Researchers have debated whether instructional-based teaching or exploration-based active learning is better for decades with unsatisfying results. A main obstacle is the difficulty in precisely controlling and characterizing the pedagogical methods used and the learning conditions in empirical studies. To address this, we leveraged existing computational models of teaching and active learning ...

With genomics well established in modern molecular biology, recent studies have sought to further the discipline by integrating complementary methodologies into a holistic depiction of the molecular mechanisms underpinning cell function. This genomic subdiscipline, loosely termed "systems biology," presents the biology educator with both opportunities and obstacles: The benefit of exposing stud...

Active learning and cooperative learning are two alternatives to the traditional lecture/lab approach to teaching software development. Evidence supporting use of these learning strategies in Computer Information Systems (CIS) began to emerge in the mid-1990s as faculty sought ways to improve student understanding of programming concepts, reduce the level of frustration, and better prepare stud...

team-based learning is designed to provide students with both conceptual and procedural knowledge, aiming to enhance active learning and critical thinking. in the present study, team-based learning and lecture methods in teaching the “hospital organization and management” course among hospital management students were compared. this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 25 undergraduate stu...

Modern teaching trends in medical education exhibit a paradigm shift from the conventional classroom teaching methods adopted in the past to nonconventional teaching aids so as to encourage interactive forms of learning in medical students through active participation and integrative reasoning where the relationship of the teacher and the taught has undergone tremendous transformation. Some of ...