Comparison of a computer simulation program and a traditional laboratory practical class for teaching the principles of intestinal absorption.

1994 ◽  
Vol 267 (6) ◽  
pp. S95 ◽  
Author(s):  
D G Dewhurst ◽  
J Hardcastle ◽  
P T Hardcastle ◽  
E Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Epithelial Transport ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Knowledge Gain ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Resource Requirements ◽  
Approach Working

Here we describe an evaluation of the effectiveness, compared with a traditional laboratory, of an interactive computer-assisted learning (CAL) program, which simulates a series of experiments performed using isolated, everted sacs of rat small intestine. The program is aimed at undergraduate students of physiology and is designed to offer an alternative student-centered learning approach to the traditional laboratory-based practical class. The evaluative study compared two groups of second-year undergraduate students studying a module on epithelial transport: one group worked independently using the CAL program and associated learning materials, and the other group followed a conventional practical class approach, working in the laboratory under supervision. Knowledge gain of each group was measured by means of a test consisting of a range of question types (e.g., short-answer factual, calculation, interpretation) given to students before and after the module. Student attitude to both approaches was assessed by questionnaire, and the resource requirements were also compared. It was found that the knowledge gain of both groups of students was the same, that students had a positive attitude toward using CAL programs of this type, and that the cost of the conventional laboratory-based approach was five times greater. The potential for integrating CAL programs into the undergraduate curriculum is discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring the Perception of Students using Student-Centered Learning Approach in a Malaysian Public University

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Abderrahim Benlahcene Benlahcene ◽  
Sana Anwar Lashari ◽  
Tahira Anwar Lashari ◽  
Muhammad Waleed Shehzad ◽  
Wu Deli
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Public University ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Cognitive Mediation ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Learning Technique ◽  
Language Courses

This study investigated students’ perception towards language courses using student-centered learning approach at University Utara Malaysia (UUM). Students’ perception was measured through a model termed as environmental, cognitive, affective, and metacognitive mediation (ECAM) which is a common teaching and learning technique used in classroom activities. To assess the implementation of ECAM; qualitative analysis was conducted based on observations of students’ activities in two language courses. The findings of the study indicated that the students employed the techniques of ECAM model. However, cognitive mediation learning technique was extensively used by the students. Moreover, audio-taped interviews were also conducted with four voluntary undergraduate students. The findings from the interviews’ interpretation revealed that students also explicit positive viewpoints about student-centered learning approach.       

scholarly journals Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif Type STAD Terhadap Keterampilan Pengisian Partograf Mahasiswa Kebidanan

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Yulizawati Yulizawati ◽  
Venny Rismawanti
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Learning System ◽  
P Value ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Active Learning Method

Educational development demands different ways of thinking and act from what have already existed. Ideal learning system must be able to provide a learning experience for students, to open up their potential for internalizing knowledge, skills and attitudes through their learning experiences. It can be done by applying an active learning method through student centered learning (SCL), one of these methods is STAD (Student Teams Achievement Division). This type teaches cooperation, responsibility, interaction, confidence, decision-making, communication, and conflict management. With this method, partograph filling skill as the core competencies of midwifery students in labor monitoring may increase..  This research aims to determine the effect of STAD method on partograph filling skill of midwifery students. This was a comparative study to compare the level of student skill in filling up partograph before and after applying cooperative learning using STAD method. The results obtained in this study showed that there was a very significant difference of the skill of students before and after using cooperative learning of STAD method, with a p-value is 0.001. Student centered learning using STAD method is proved to be more significant to improve student competence of filling up partograph.

Before and After MOOCs, Before and After Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-121
Keyword(s):  
Content Delivery ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Classical Subject

Digital learning practice using ubiquitous personal technologies can lead to teachers using their craft professionalism to create artfully-crafted, student-centered, learning experiences. Supportive and progressive organisational architectures of participation reveal adaptive institutions working across collaborative networks. The question now is what might adaptive institutions look like if they have been subjected to transformational processes, rather than just “e-enabling” the traditional practice of content delivery within the existing classical subject taxonomies? MOOCs seem to be a continuation of a learning catered for content through delivery; they are not a new paradigm, despite their promotion in this way by universities and the technology companies selling their platforms. In order to look at what transformation rather than e-enabling might look like, the authors review their framing ideas with long-run historical views of education, learning, knowledge, and institutions with a process called “before and after.”

scholarly journals Sustainable Well-Being Challenge: A Student-Centered Pedagogical Tool Linking Human Well-Being to Ecological Flourishing

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Vatovec ◽  
Haley Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Personal Sacrifice ◽  
Student Reflections ◽  
The Relationship

Human behavioral change is necessary if we wish to evolve into a more sustainable human society, but change is hard, especially given that many people equate environmentalism with personal sacrifice. This paper highlights a semester-long assignment in which undergraduate students examined five behaviors that claim to increase happiness with minimal ecological footprints. We used mixed methods to analyze students’ self-reported positive and negative affect scores before and after completing each of the five activities, along with descriptions of the carbon footprint of each activity and student self-reflections on whether each challenge promoted “sustainability”. Results indicated that students’ positive affect increased with each activity, while negative affect decreased. Student reflections indicated that engagement with systems thinking can be used to examine the relationship between their own well-being and the ecological outcomes of each of their chosen activities, as well as alternatives that would decrease their footprint. In final reflections, 85% of students stated that they would promote these five behaviors among the general public to enhance sustainability efforts. We discuss using the Sustainable Well-being Challenge as a tool to promote behaviors that support both human and ecological well-being.

scholarly journals 909 Modern Integrated Surgical Teaching for Junior Doctors: Local Workshops and Online Webinars

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Kamble ◽  
Y Scantling-Birch ◽  
E Larsson ◽  
G Samarth ◽  
C Maden
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Surgical Patient ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Knowledge Gain ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Surgical Teaching ◽  
Practical Session

Abstract Introduction Reforms in the postgraduate and undergraduate curriculum have resulted in a lack of surgical teaching. By tailoring educational objectives to learning needs of junior doctors, we assessed the perceptions and knowledge transfer of our 2-phase surgical teaching programme. Method A perception questionnaire was distributed amongst junior doctors to establish confidence levels in surgical topics. Junior doctors were invited to attend (1) a local surgical techniques workshop and (2) an online national webinar. Perception questionnaire and knowledge tests were delivered before and after each session. Result 87.5% (n = 14) participants were not confident assessing an unwell surgical patient when on-call. Mean confidence gain before and after the practical session was 4.18 (W = 91.0, p = 0.0002). 106 participants attended the online webinar. 61.3% (n = 65) were quite confident in assessing a sick surgical patient and 56.6% (n = 60) were quite confident managing a sick surgical patient. The majority (97.2%, n = 103) deemed the session to be useful to very useful. Mean knowledge gain before and after the session was 32.8% (t = 4.67, p = 0.009). Conclusions Improvement in confidence and knowledge in surgical topics amongst juniors can be feasible by implementing blended learning tools, such as online webinars.

scholarly journals The Problems of Engineering Students’ Professional Identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.I. Sholina ◽  
N.A. Reprintseva
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Nascent Industries ◽  
Flexible Adaptation

Engineering education at Ural Federal University has its traditions; one of them is the design of new programs for nascent industries and flexible adaptation to changes in the economy. It allows UrFU engineering programs not only to survive in the conditions of constant external and internal changes but also to remain highly demanded and competitive. The article describes the problems of the professional identity of students of engineering programs, organizational models and didactic techniques that ensure professionalization in the framework of the leading educational programs of the UrFU Engineering School, which have been tested as part of pilot training for undergraduate students in the program ”System Analysis and Management.” The results of the survey among students and graduates of the program, which was conducted in order to understand their professional identity and awareness of the choice of an educational program for obtaining a profession, are presented. Keywords: Learning outcomes, CDIO initiative, benchmark, modeling, Industry 4.0, student-centered learning, internships, professional identity, efficiency

scholarly journals Student-Centered Learning Using Feature Films

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Meamber
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Organization Leadership ◽  
Decision Making Behavior

This Demonstration session will showcase the use of commercial films to enhance student engagement and learning. The session will detail a project that asks undergraduate students to analyze a film for its marketing and consumer behavior content. The innovation was first profiled in December 2012 in an Office of Media and Public Relations story "Marketing Students Head to the Movies to Learn about Consumer Behavior". Students completing this assignment learn to think comprehensively about consumer behavior and to explain the behavior that is depicted in a film. The goal of the innovation is for students to apply and synthesize knowledge in order to understand their own consumer decision-making behavior and how marketers can influence behavior. This project can be utilized variety of humanities and social science courses. For example, students discuss a variety of topics illustrated in a film—isuch as interpersonal communication and persuasion strategies used by the film characters in "Love and Other Drugs" for a communications class; organization leadership demonstrated "Office Space" for an I/O psychology class; historical inaccuracies as presented in the film "Lincoln" for a history class. Alternatively, the instructor teaching a particular course can take a film and analyze it for use in class.

Teaching simple experimental design to undergraduates: do your students understand the basics?

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara M. Hiebert
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Experiment Design ◽  
Interindividual Variation ◽  
Simple Experiment ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Classroom Implementation ◽  
Treatment Groups

This article provides instructors with guidelines for teaching simple experimental design for the comparison of two treatment groups. Two designs with specific examples are discussed along with common misconceptions that undergraduate students typically bring to the experiment design process. Features of experiment design that maximize power and minimize the effects of interindividual variation, thus allowing reduction of sample sizes, are described. Classroom implementation that emphasizes student-centered learning is suggested, and thought questions, designed to help students discover and name the basic principles of simple experiment design for themselves, are included with an answer key.

scholarly journals Content-Based English Education in China: Students’ Experiences and Perspectives

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulbahar Beckett ◽  
Fang Li
Keyword(s):  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Subject Matter Content ◽  
Education In China

This study explores undergraduate students’ experiences and perceptions of the content-based EFL instruction at a northwestern Chinese university. It is one of the first empirical studies of content-based EFL in China. Through a three-part open-ended questionnaire administered with 34 undergraduate students majoring in finance, the study reveals overwhelming support for this approach to EFL. Participants believed that learning English and content knowledge simultaneously was helpful and that the spread of English in China can benefit the nation and its people. The findings also indicate that some participants were critical of the approach, stating that it is “shallow content teaching” and suggesting that subject matter content be taught in Chinese. The participants praised their original English texts and expressed their preference for student-centered learning.

Frog Skin: A Computer Simulation of Experiments Performed on Frog Skin In Vitro to Investigate the Epithelial Transport of Ions

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Dewhurst ◽  
Alan Williams
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Frog Skin ◽  
Epithelial Transport ◽  
Scintillation Counter ◽  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Learning Program

An interactive computer-assisted learning program is described, based on experiments performed on frog skin in vitro, a preparation commonly used to teach the principles of ion transport across tight epithelia. It is aimed at undergraduate students on a variety of biomedical science courses and is designed for use on any IBM-compatible microcomputer. The program uses data derived from theoretical models to allow students to design experiments by altering certain experimental parameters. They can investigate, for example, the effects of changing the concentrations of certain ions on either side of the skin or the actions of certain drugs on either passive or active transport. Such investigations involve taking measurements from a simulated voltmeter, ammeter or radiation (scintillation) counter, as appropriate. The complete learning package includes background information for the student, tutor's notes, and suggested student assignments. The use of the program in teaching physiology and its value as an alternative to animal experiments are discussed.

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