Medical students' evaluation of physiology learning environments in two Nigerian medical schools

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. S. B. Anyaehie ◽  
E. Nwobodo ◽  
G. Oze ◽  
U. I. Nwagha ◽  
I. Orizu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Student Centred Learning ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

The expansion of biomedical knowledge and the pursuit of more meaningful learning have led to world-wide evidence-based innovative changes in medical education and curricula. The recent emphasis on problem-based learning (PBL) and student-centred learning environments are, however, not being implemented in Nigerian medical schools. Traditional didactic lectures thus predominate, and learning is further constrained by funding gaps, poor infrastructure, and increasing class sizes. We reviewed medical students' perceptions of their exposed learning environment to determine preferences, shortcomings, and prescriptions for improvements. The results confirm declining interest in didactic lectures and practical sessions with preferences for peer-tutored discussion classes, which were considered more interactive and interesting. This study recommends more emphasis on student-centered learning with alternatives to passive lecture formats and repetitive cookbook practical sessions. The institutionalization of student feedback processes in Nigerian medical schools is also highly recommended.

Virtual Reality Pedagogical Considerations in Learning Environments

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Johnston ◽  
Gerald W. Olivas ◽  
Patricia Steele ◽  
Cassandra Smith ◽  
Liston W. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Direct Instruction ◽  
Situated Cognition ◽  
Electronic Marketplace ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Educational Applications

New virtual reality (VR) educational applications are available in the electronic marketplace almost daily but seldom include pedagogies, materials, recommendations, or insights for adapting or implementing the applications into existing curriculums. Educators need to understand the pedagogical orientations of VR applications to prepare, apply, assess, and evaluate a potentially productive practice that distinguishes and supports different strategies and optimizes student-centered learning. VR educational applications are most frequently built on student-centered models including direct instruction, experiential, discovery, situated cognition, and constructivism pedagogies.

21st-Century Students in 20th Century Classrooms

2017 ◽  
pp. 140-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Marshall ◽  
Karen Thomas ◽  
Sandra Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Student Centred Learning

This chapter focuses on the transition from teacher-centred learning to student-centred learning. First, we situate the importance of student-centred learning within the Angloplone Caribbean experience. Second, we outline ways in which on-going professional development centers institutions interested in making the transition to student-centered learning. Third, we describe some techniques that can be used to engender student-centered approaches to teaching and learning. Finally, we conclude by summarizing student-centred pedagogical challenges and implications.

Learning Styles and Cultural Differences in Online Learning Environments in the Twenty-First Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 1630-1642
Author(s):  
Blessing F. Adeoye
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Online Learning Environments ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Nigerian University

The nature of learning is changing, especially learning in the twenty-first century. It's increasingly becoming more to do with student-centered learning. It emphasizes digital literacy, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills. This chapter revisited online learning environments in terms of differences in the learning styles of Nigerian university students according to their cultural backgrounds. The author also reviewed past research that focused on culturally different learning styles in online learning environments. Of specific interest are the studies that examined the same issue in the twenty-first century. This chapter concluded based on the review of literature that a person's learning style could affect how they react to any learning situation, including learning online; therefore, knowledge of learning styles could help in the selection of appropriate instructional designs and teaching strategies for courses. In the case of the students at the University of Lagos, it was found that students with different learning styles have different responses to online learning within their culture.

Accounting and Finance Students' Perceptions About Active Learning in an Economics-Lecture Classroom

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-34
Author(s):  
Sandrina B. Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Interactive Learning ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Learning Techniques

In higher education there is an increasing trend from teacher-centered to student-centered learning environments, wherein active learning experiences can play a decisive role. This chapter assesses how students perceive the use of active learning techniques within the lecture framework, traditionally accepting students as passive listeners. A survey was distributed in the undergraduate course of Accounting and Finance - evening classes, at the end of the semester, to evaluate and help refine the active learning approach conducted in an economics course. Students reported an overall positive response towards active learning, which helped them to focus, engage, and learn. They especially value the lectures as interactive learning experiences. Students' appraisal regarding the usefulness of key implementation rules like the what, when, who technique on slide-written instructions, as well as the variety of active learning activities tested, revealed the designing and testing of active learning events need improvement.

scholarly journals Radical Togetherness: African-American Literature and Abolition Pedagogy at Parchman and Beyond

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Patrick Elliot Alexander
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Conception Of Teaching ◽  
Prison Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Deprivation

This article makes the case that the student-centered learning paradigm that I have aimed to establish at Parchman/Mississippi State Penitentiary as a member of a college-in-prison program represents a prison abolition pedagogy that builds on Martin Luther King and Angela Y. Davis’s coalitional models of abolition work. Drawing from Davis’s abolition-framed conception of teaching in jails and prisons as expressed in her autobiography and her critical prison studies text Are Prisons Obsolete?, I argue that the learning environments that I create collaboratively with students at Parchman similarly respond to incarcerated students’ institution-specific concerns and African-American literary interests in ways that lessen, if only temporarily, the social isolation and educational deprivation that they routinely experience in Mississippi’s plantation-style state penitentiary. Moreover, I am interested in the far-reaching implications of what I have theorized elsewhere as “abolition pedagogy”—a way of teaching that exposes and opposes the educational deprivation, under-resourced and understaffed learning environments, and overtly militarized classrooms that precede and accompany too many incarcerations. As such, this article also focuses on my experience of teaching about imprisonment in African-American literature courses at the University of Mississippi at the same time that I have taught classes at Parchman that honor the African-American literary interests of imprisoned students there.

scholarly journals Best practices in active and student-centered learning in physiology classes

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Goodman ◽  
Megan K. Barker ◽  
James E. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Physiology Students

This review article includes our analysis of the literature and our own experiences in using various types of active learning as best practices for evidence-based teaching in physiology. We have evaluated what physiology students should be expected to learn and what are specific challenges to enhancing their learning of physiology principles. We also consider how the instructor should design his or her teaching to improve buy-in from both students and other faculty members. We include a discussion of how the readers can evaluate their teaching approaches for their successes in enhancing student learning of physiology. Thus we have addressed pedagogical improvements specific to student learning of physiology, with additional suggestions from cognitive psychology approaches that can improve physiology teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Prescribing competency assessment for Canadian medical students: a pilot evaluation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Holbrook ◽  
J. Tiger Liu ◽  
Michael Rieder ◽  
Michelle Gibson ◽  
Mitchell Levine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Competency Assessment ◽  
Perceived Fairness ◽  
Discriminative Ability

Background: The knowledge and ability to prescribe safely and effectively is a core competency for every graduating medical student. Our previous research suggested concerns about medical student prescribing abilities, and interest in a standardized assessment process. Methods: A multi-year cross-sectional study evaluating the feasibility, acceptability, and discriminative ability of an online prescribing competency assessment for final year Canadian medical students was conducted. Students at nine sites of four Ontario medical schools were invited to participate in an online one-hour exam of eight domains related to prescribing safely. Student feedback on perceived fairness, clarity, and ease of use formed the primary outcome. Exam performance and parity between schools were the secondary outcome.  Results: A total of 714 students completed the assessment during spring final review courses between 2016 and 2018. Student feedback was more favourable than not for appropriateness of content (53.5% agreement vs 18.3% disagreement), clarity of questions (65.5% agreement vs 11.6% disagreement), question layout and presentation (70.8% agreement vs 12.2% disagreement), and ease of use of online interface (67.1% agreement vs 13.6% disagreement). Few (23.6% believed their course work had prepared them for the assessment. Mean total exam score was 70.0% overall (SD 10.4%), with 47.6% scoring at or above the pass threshold of 70%. Conclusion: Our prescribing competency assessment proved feasible, acceptable, and discriminative, and indicated a need for better medical school training to improve prescribing competency. Further evaluation in a larger sample of medical schools is warranted.

scholarly journals The Use of Clinical PBL in Primary Care in Undergraduate Medical Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Salata Romão ◽  
Reinaldo Bulgarelli Bestetti ◽  
Lucélio Bernardes Couto
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Knowledge Retention ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Effective Option ◽  
The University

Abstract: Introduction: Problem-based learning (PBL) is a collaborative student-centered learning method for small groups, based on the mobilization of previous knowledge and on critical reasoning for problem solving. Although it has been used predominantly in the classroom, when applied in clinical studies, PBL can increase the intrinsic motivation and long-term knowledge retention. In addition, Clinical PBL represents a more effective option to learn from practice considering the students’ overload in clinical clerkships in the Unified Health System (UHS). This study aimed to assess the students’ perception of a Clinical PBL model implemented in Primary Health Care (PHC) clerkships during the first four years of the Medical Course at the University of Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP) in 2017. Method: The primary outcome was assessed by the DREEM (Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure) tool, which contains 50 items distributed in five dimensions. The questionnaire was applied to 374 medical students, corresponding to 78% of the total number of medical students from the first to the fourth year. Results: For most of the evaluated items, the students’ perceptions were “positive”, including the dimensions “Perception of Teachers”, “Perception of Academic Results” and “Perception of the General Environment”. For the dimensions “Perception of Learning” and “Perception of Social Relationships” the evaluation was “more positive than negative”. The DREEM total score was 124.31, corresponding to 62.15% of the maximum score, which indicates a perception that is “more positive than negative” regarding the Clinical PBL. The internal consistency given by Cronbach’s alpha was 0.92. Conclusion: The use of Clinical PBL in PHC qualifies learning from practice, is well accepted by medical students and offers a useful option to the students’ overload in the clinical clerkship during the first four years of the Medical School.

scholarly journals PELATIHAN BLOG SEBAGAI SARANA PUBLIKASI PEMBELAJARAN GURU SMA NEGERI 2 KISARAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Guntur Maha Putra ◽  
Novica Irawati ◽  
Adi Prijuna
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Student Center ◽  
Student Centred Learning ◽  
The Mind

Abstract: As a formal education institution, acculturation of techniques in Teaching and Learning Activities (KBM) is required by each lesson teacher to be able to transfer knowledge to students maximal and optimally. So far the teaching carried out by the teachers of SMA 2 Kisaran is more dominant in learning done face-to-face in the classroom, so that learning requires the mind and energy that is extra because it is done repeatedly in the classroom and the hours that different. Starting from the above, the dedication team sought solutions so that teaching can be acculturated by online learning using blog media to publish teachers' teaching materials to the internet. It is expected that online-based teaching techniques, one of which is outlined in the making and utilization of blogs can stimulate interest from students to access teaching materials that have been published online, both in the form of text, images, audio and learning videos that have been recorded and uploaded by the teacher into his blog whenever and wherever it is, so that it will create student centered learning and learning objectives can be achieved. Keywords: blogs, teaching materials, online publications, videos, student center learning.  Abstrak: Sebagai institusi pendidikan formal maka diperlukan akulturasi teknik dalam Kegiatan Belajar Mengajar (KBM) yang dilakukan oleh masing-masing guru pelajaran untuk dapat mentransfer ilmu pengetahuan kepada peserta didik secara maksimal dan optimal. Selama ini pengajaran yang dilakukan oleh guru-guru SMA Negeri 2 Kisaran lebih dominan ke-pembelajaran yang dilakukan secara tatap muka di dalam kelas, sehingga pembelajaran membutuhkan pikiran dan tenaga yang ekstra karena dilakukan secara berulang-ulang pada kelas dan jam yang berbeda. Berawal dari hal diatas maka tim pengabdian mencari solusi agar pengajaran dapat diakulturasi dengan pembelajaran secara online menggunakan media blog untuk mempublikasikan bahar ajar para guru ke internet. Diharapkan dengan teknik  pengajaran berbasis online salah satunya yang dituangkan dalam pembuatan dan pemanfaatan blog dapat merangsang minat dari para siswa untuk mengakses bahan ajar yang telah dipublikasikan secara online baik informasi berupa text, gambar, audio maupun video pembelajaran yang telah direkam dan diupload oleh guru ke dalam blognya kapan dan dimanapun berada, sehingga akan tercipta pembelajaran berpusat pada siswa (Student Centred Learning) dan tujuan pembelajaran dapat tercapai. Kata kunci: blog, bahan ajar, publikasi online, video, Student Center Learning.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document