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Valtanen, Juri – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Question-asking is essential for being, knowing and learning. However, classroom research has confirmed that students do not ask questions spontaneously and teachers ask the most questions, mainly low-level ones. The purpose of this qualitative case-study is to investigate question-asking during problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials, a subject…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Questioning Techniques, Tutorial Programs, Video Technology
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Wolfe, Christopher; Widmer, Colin L.; Weil, Audrey M.; Cedillos-Whynott, Elizabeth M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
Students in an undergraduate psychology course on Learning and Cognition used SKO (formerly AutoTutor Lite), an Intelligent Tutoring System, to create interactive lessons in which a pedagogic agent (animated avatar) engages users in a tutorial dialogue. After briefly describing the technology and underlying psychological theory, data from an…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Animation
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Jackson, T. A.; Evans, D. J. R. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2012
The General Medical Council states that United Kingdom graduates must function effectively as educators. There is a growing body of evidence showing that medical students can be included as teachers within a medical curriculum. Our aim was to design and implement a near-peer-led teaching program in an undergraduate medical curriculum and assess…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Smith, Julian; Groves, Mark; Bowd, Belinda; Barber, Alison – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This study examined the effectiveness of a Blended Learning (BL) environment designed to facilitate the learning of study skills with a large (over 200) and diverse undergraduate student cohort in a Higher Education (HE) institution in the UK. A BL environment was designed using the model provided by Kerres & De Witt (2003), and was also…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Blended Learning, Skill Development, Learning Strategies
Mohan, Madan; And Others – 1975
Purpose of the program was to provide each migrant child the educational treatment that would be most effective in developing his potential. Consisting of a reading component which provided remedial reading instruction using tutors, and the LEAD (Learn, Experience, and Develop) component which involved parents and the community in bringing about…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Learning Experience