BACKGROUND: Physical therapy (PT) educators have been charged by the American
Physical Therapy Association's Vision 2020 with the aim of developing critically reflective …

The demand for a flexible educational opportunity led to the 'anytime, anywhere'distance
learning based on technology-mediated instructional designs. Such educational design …

Collaborative learning has been found to benefit students in various disciplines. Moreover,
in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics literature, it was noted that …

Globalization is a geo-spatial process that connects geographically distant actors and that
allows global flows of people, ideas and educational activities, to intertwine with local action …

This study was aimed to investigate (1) the improvement of CFL elementary-school students'
skill in learning Mandarin Chinese (hereafter referred to as Mandarin) vocabulary through …

Creating discussion boards (DBs) that capture student imaginations and contain meaningful
interactions can be a difficult process. Traditional DBs use a question-and-answer format …

Online collaborative learning activities have been used to achieve learning outcomes and
address the problem of learner isolation. However, they can also be frustrating to some …

B Otago Polytechnic School of Midwifery, Dunedin Background: The Midwifery Council of
New Zealand requires that registered midwives are engaged in education as one aspect of …

A lot has changed over the years since I was a student in physical therapy school, as I
began my clinical practice, and since I entered academia. As students, we walked to class …

The theory of Communities of Practice (COP) has evolved from an expression of the situated
learning taking place in the relationship between apprentice and master (Lave and Wenger …