Training Problem-based Learning Faculty Online : A Novel Approach in Faculty Development

ISBN-13: 9783639150896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 112 str.

Tatum Korin

Opis

Seventy percent of U.S. medical schools report usingproblem-based learning (PBL) in the pre-clerkshipyears. However, without intensive training, facultyoften struggle with organizing their teaching in apurposeful manner. This book documents the efficacyof an online PBL training module to assisting facultyin organizing PBL teaching sessions. This novelapproach to PBL faculty development takes intoaccount faculty and student perceptions and experiences. The information gathered and presented in this bookillustrates how an online PBL training system can beimplemented, as part of a larger faculty developmentprogram, to change and improve upon specific teachingbehaviors.

O autorze

Tatum Langford Korin is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is Director of Faculty
Development, responsible for all facets of faculty training. Her
master s degree in Educational Psychology is from Michigan State
University and her EdD is in Education Leadership from UCLA.