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Vamsi Chodisetty; Amish Jain; Landry Cowles; Nate Cowan; Marisa Imbroane; Hejin Jeong; Sarah Fry; Amy L. Wilson-Delfosse – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This chapter describes a literature review evaluating five innovative health professions education approaches to large group teaching and presents student perspectives regarding their implementation.
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Lecture Method, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Elavsky, C. Michael – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter provides strategies for harnessing the power of social media to better help Millennial students connect with course content.
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Social Networks, Lecture Method
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Fahlberg, Beth; Rice, Elizabeth; Muehrer, Rebecca; Brey, Danielle – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2014
This chapter describes the processes and pedagogies used by one school in transitioning from lecture halls to collaborative learning environments.
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Environment, Nursing Education, Cooperative Learning
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Saville, Bryan K.; Zinn, Tracy E. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
In general, people associate college and university teaching with lecture-based methods, in which an expert (the teacher) delivers information to a group of nonexperts (the students), who subsequently show their newfound "knowledge" by answering examination questions. Because of the common notion that knowledge and intelligence are…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Conventional Instruction
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Carlin, Deborah – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
In this chapter, the author describes how a pedagogical approach utilizing insights and principles from queer theory facilitated an intersectional analysis in a large lecture, general education course on "Gender, Sexuality, Literature and Culture" at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her goal in using queer theory's deconstructive…
Descriptors: College English, General Education, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
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Baldwin, Roger G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
Undergraduate education in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) needs improvement, a conclusion that multiple national reports over the past two decades have reached. Critiques of STEM education may emphasize different aspects of the STEM undergraduate education problem. Nevertheless, each delivers one clear and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Science Education, Technology Education, Engineering Education