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Fyrenius, Anna; Wirell, Staffan; Silen, Charlotte – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This article presents a phenomenographic study that investigates students' approaches to achieving understanding. The results are based on interviews, addressing physiological phenomena, with 16 medical students in a problem-based curriculum. Four approaches--sifting, building, holding and moving--are outlined. The holding and moving approaches…
Descriptors: Intention, Medical Students, Interviews, Medical Education
Tovote, Christina – 2001
This paper discusses customer services in academic libraries. The first section addresses the concept of the "customer." Thereafter, the paper applies the metaphor of the producer and its consumers to the relationship between a university and its students. The second section looks at education as a process of refinement. Next, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education