There exists empirical evidence proving that students who are given the freedom to explore areas based on their personal interests, and who are accompanied in their learning by a supportive, understanding facilitator, not only achieve superior academic results but also develop socially and grow personally. However, pure Student-Centered Teaching is more demanding in terms of communication, orga...

a comparison of teachers and students opinions toward effective teaching standards in urmia university of medical sciences     mohaddesi h [1] , feizi a [2] *, r salem safy [3]     received: 2august, 2011 accepted: 6 september, 2011     abstract   background & aims : undoubtedly, taking the influential factors in effective teaching and learning into consideration improves the quality of educati...

Recent studentcentered teaching approaches in high schools in Shanxi Province have made dramatic changes to the organization of the classroom space and given over the majority of the classroom time to student talk instead of teacher talk. These approaches to student centered teaching are characterized by a high level of systematization and coordination and are focused heavily on efficiently rai...

In this paper we discuss two novel ideas to improve teaching and information transfer between persons in general. The rst aspect is centered around proposing to use the \Tamagotchi craze" for teaching purposes, the second deals with new ways of unobtrusively collecting data on the subjective satisfaction of persons with information and teaching material o ered on the Web.

In this study, we used a case study approach to obtain an in-depth understanding of the change process of two university instructors who were involved with redesigning a biology course. Given the hesitancy of many biology instructors to adopt evidence-based, learner-centered teaching methods, there is a critical need to understand how biology instructors transition from teacher-centered (i.e., ...

A programme of courses in molecular simulation techniques has been developed recently at the School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering at UCD, in conjunction with groups/departments at other Irish universities, under the auspices of the Nanoscale Simulators in Ireland. This is aimed partly at students in engineering and science beginning postgraduate-level research, although interested unde...