In this paper the instructors describe a new team-taught transdisciplinary seminar, "Music and Mind: The Science of Musical Experience." The instructors, with backgrounds in music and neuroscience, valued the interdisciplinary approach as a way to capture student interest and to reflect the inherent interconnectivity of neuroscience. The course covered foundational background information about ...

The article describes the experience of using LMS Moodle interactive “Seminar” module to activate students’ independent activities, based on example teaching chemical disciplines. Special focus is placed upon student motivation participate in discussion projects related role processes their future professional activities. In context this type students were asked write a paper one suggested topi...

The Center has over 125 Stanford University faculty affiliates, national and international fellows, student affiliates, and visiting scholars and fellows. These affiliates and fellows are engaged in core research on trends in poverty and inequality, the sources of poverty and inequality, the consequences of poverty and inequality, and the effects of policy initiatives on poverty and inequality....

The Internet can be used to solve pedagogical problems. To give an example, seminars for crowded courses exceeding a hundred participants would not be possible without web-based arrangements. These arrangements may provide help especially for adult learners. We organized a web-based coursework and seminar during the Knowledge Work and its Tools course for some students (experimental group). Sim...

Abstract Classroom dialogue provides significant opportunity for students to build on their understanding of a subject. It is also vector through which the educator can assess progress in lessons (Alexander, 2008). The purpose this study was explore what effect specific form classroom (the Socratic seminar) has student engagement, and consequently, learning.