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Chun-Chun Chang; Gwo-Jen Hwang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Cultivating staff's professional English has become an imperative and challenging issue in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) countries. English for medical professionals is also the common language around the world for publishing new medical knowledge or reports. Therefore, Medical English for Health Professionals (MEHP) is a crucial…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Sakthi-Velavan, Sumathilatha; Zahl, Sarah – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Virtual microscopy podcasts (VMPs) are narrative recordings of digital histology images. This study evaluated the outcomes of integrating the VMPs into teaching histology to osteopathic medical students. The hypothesis was that incorporating virtual microscopy podcasts as supplementary histology resources to the curriculum would have a positive…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
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Endang Sri Lestari; Sajidan Sajidan; Fitria Rahmawati; Meti Indrowati – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Environmental literacy related to the utilization of medicinal plants in the community provides a foundation for the younger generation to take an active role and form an attitude of care and responsibility for environmental sustainability. The current research aims to introduce the Inquiry-Etnobotany (IEb) learning model to enhance students'…
Descriptors: Botany, Indigenous Knowledge, Science Instruction, Outcomes of Education
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Valverde, Israel; Gomez, Gorka; Byrne, Nick; Anwar, Shafkat; Silva Cerpa, Miguel Angel; Martin Talavera, Maria; Pushparajah, Kuberan; Velasco Forte, Maria Nieves – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2022
The utility of three-dimensional (3D) printed models for medical education in complex congenital heart disease (CHD) is sparse and limited. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of 3D printed models for medical education in criss-cross hearts covering a wide range of participants with different levels of knowledge and experience,…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Anatomy, Computer Peripherals, Heart Disorders
Noyes, Julie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
One of the greatest challenges in veterinary education is adequately preparing students with the clinical skills they need to be successful healthcare providers. Integration of simulation-based medical education (SBME) approaches into the veterinary curriculum can help address challenges to clinical instruction. The SBME model of learning aims to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medical Education, Simulation
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Miranda, Joana P.; Batista, Mariana; Duarte, Cristina; Sanches, Tatiana – Education Sciences, 2021
Peer observation of teaching has been adopted as a method to improve the quality of teaching. It involves observers providing descriptive feedback to their peers on learning and teaching practices. However, although extensively described in the literature in the education field, its use as a tool for development beyond teaching skills has not been…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation
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Muñoz-Miquel, Ana – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
This paper presents the results of an empirical descriptive and contrastive study designed to assess how closely postgraduate translation programmes fit the reality of professional practice. Focusing on medical translation, the case study analyses the convergences and divergences between the competences that professional medical translators deploy…
Descriptors: Translation, Program Evaluation, Education Work Relationship, Medicine
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Merkley, Rebecca; Shimi, Andria; Scerif, Gaia – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
It is not yet understood how children acquire the meaning of numerical symbols and most existing research has focused on the role of approximate non-symbolic representations of number in this process (see Piazza, ("Trends in Cognitive" 14(12):542-551, 2010). However, numerical symbols necessitate an understanding of both order and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Symbols (Mathematics), Number Concepts
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Huang, Ping-Yu; Chen, Chien-Ming; Tsao, Nai-Lung; Wible, David – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2015
Since it was published, Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) has been frequently used in English for academic purposes (EAP) classrooms, included in numerous teaching materials, and re-examined in light of various domain-specific corpora. Although well-received, the AWL has been criticized for ignoring some important facts that words still…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse, Phrase Structure
Cuban, Larry – Harvard Education Press, 2013
A book that explores the problematic connection between education policy and practice while pointing in the direction of a more fruitful relationship, "Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice" is a provocative culminating statement from one of America's most insightful education scholars and leaders. "Inside the Black Box of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Public Schools
Wilkinson, Kate; Barter, Phil – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
Recently there has been an increased volume of research and practice of mobile Learning (mLearning) and in particular of the tablet device. The question of how, when and where to best incorporate the tablet device into the learning environment in Higher Education remains largely unanswered. The article presents the findings of an empirical study…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Telecommunications
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Head, S. I.; Arber, M. B. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
The fact that humans possess fast and slow-twitch muscle in the ratio of approximately 50% has profound implications for designing exercise training strategies for power and endurance activities. With the growth of exercise and sport science courses, we have seen the need to develop an undergraduate student laboratory that demonstrates the basic…
Descriptors: Exercise Physiology, Sports Medicine, Science Laboratories, Data Collection
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Bruce-Low, S. S.; Burnet, S.; Arber, K.; Price, D.; Webster, L.; Stopforth, M. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
Mobile learning has increasingly become interwoven into the fabric of learning and teaching in the United Kingdom higher education sector, and as technological issues become addressed, this phenomena has accelerated. The aim of the study was to examine whether learning using a mobile learning device (Samsung NC10 Netbook) loaded with interactive…
Descriptors: Sports Medicine, Information Technology, Laptop Computers, Undergraduate Students
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Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
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Raupach, T.; Munscher, C.; Pukrop, T.; Anders, S.; Harendza, S. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to web-based learning although the advantages of computer-aided instruction over traditional teaching formats still need to be confirmed. This study examined whether participation in an online module on the differential diagnosis of dyspnoea impacts on student performance in a multiple choice…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Medical Students, Intervention, Problem Based Learning
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