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Handbook of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in diverse higher education environments, all with a unique global view. The need to understand learning and teaching from multiple cultural perspectives has become critically important in educating the next generation of college students. Education experts from around the world share their perspectives on college and university teaching, illuminating international differences and similarities. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia, which focuses on seven interrelated variables, including teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Using this logical model as the organizational structure of the book provides a guide for systemic thinking about what actions one should take, or suggest others take, when planning activities to improve teaching and learning, curriculum development, and assessment.
Problem-Based Learning and Its Application to South African Medical Education
Problem-Based Learning and Its Application to South African Medical Education
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a relatively recent (ca. 1970) pedagogy. It appeared with few obvious antecedents, but there was indeed theory and research to support it. Medical teachers at McMaster University in Canada are generally credited with the creation of PBL (Barrows & Tamblyn, 1980; Neufeld & Barrows, 1974), which has been called the signature pedagogy of medicine and nursing (Maistry, 2009). In Denmark, Roskilde (1972) and Aalborg (1974) universities devised project-based learning (De Graaf & Kolmos, 2007), which is more practically orientated and is associated with engineering, but with principles similar to those of PBL. Nowadays, PBL appears as either a pedagogy or ...
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