Teaching psychiatry concerns mainly education of students studying medicine and clinical psychology, but it also concerns professional training the people specializing in psychiatry and in other fields of medicine. Since the requirements that medical professionals are obliged to meet are ever higher, it is essential to provide highest possible quality of teaching and to do so to use the best po...

As 21 century science and engineering assault disciplinary boundaries towards addressing problems in healthcare, the environment and energy, many engineering departments are seeking ways to make the curriculum and the classroom more interdisciplinary. Areas as diverse as drug delivery systems, green waste treatment plants, and skin injury treatments are all instances where chemical engineering ...

Active learning methods, as problem-based learning, casebased teaching, didactic learning and web-based teaching are recognized strategies to stimulate student’s critical thinking [5]. These strategies aid students to learn and eventually integrate information [6]. These learning strategies differ in efficiency and applicability, but they are in the same conceptual framework which is the constr...

Within algorithmic learning theory teaching has been studied in various ways. In a common variant the teacher has to teach all learners that are restricted to output only consistent hypotheses. The complexity of teaching is then measured by the maximum number of mistakes a consistent learner can make until successful learning. This is equivalent to the so-called teaching dimension. However, man...

As an efficient thinking tool, The Mind Map has been widely used in many industries. This teaching reform of E-commerce is based on the educational concept "true education a heart-to-heart activity, only from heart can it touch depths soul". During this process, students choose projects independently and apply mind maps design E-commerce. part adopts "mind map + optional project" word process d...

abstract the aim of this paper is to illustrate the role of metaphor in education. the main thesis is that the metaphors shape our attitude towards education implicitly.  with this aim in mind, first, the concept of metaphor is briefly introduced, and then three of the most famous metaphors that have been used in education (factories, gardening and travel), and their differences are discussed. ...