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Taylor, Rebecca L.; Knorr, Kris; Ogrodnik, Michelle; Sinclair, Peter – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Midterm student feedback is a common process in post-secondary institutions that can lead to enhanced teaching practices and thereby potentially to higher ratings of instructional skills in summative course evaluations. At McMaster University, midterm student feedback is called a 'Course Refinement' and includes consultation with educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation
Servant-Miklos, Virginie – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2020
This paper addresses one of the major confusions in the study and practice of problem-based learning today, namely the use of the term "problem-based learning" to refer to both the small-group tutorial method pioneered by McMaster University and Maastricht University in medical education, and the problem-oriented project-work method…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning
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Lai, Alyssa; Savage, Philip – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2013
The blended learning environment in university courses integrates teaching technologies in traditional (i.e. non-technological) learning contexts, most evidently through the adoption of a Learning Management System (LMS). Past studies on the use of LMSs have focused on the economic and technical challenges in LMS adoption (West et al., 2006;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Learning Systems, Teacher Effectiveness, Blended Learning
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Charlin, Bernard; Mann, Karen; Hansen, Penny – Medical Teacher, 1998
In literature on problem-based learning (PBL), it is often difficult to determine whether the educational approach being described is actually PBL. Provides planners and assessors of PBL curricula with a framework for analysis. Educational activities can be categorized as PBL according to three core principles and four criteria concerning their…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Educational Principles, Foreign Countries