Topics in this volume include: factors affecting small-group tutorial learning - a review of research; analyzing the tutor's role in the emergence of a learning issue; equity of student discourse in PBL; and methods of assessing group processing in a problem-based learning context.

This volume collects recent studies conducted within the area of medical education that investigate two of the critical components of problem-based curricula--the group meeting and self-directed learning--and demonstrates that understanding these complex phenomena is critical to the operation of this innovative curriculum. It is the editors' contention that it is these components of problem-based learning that connect the initiating "problem" with the process of effective "learning." Revealing how this occurs is the task taken on by researchers contributing to this volume. The studies include...

This book addresses some of  the core issues in using technology to support collaborative  learning, reasoning, and argumentation. Featuring a variety of theoretical perspectives, ranging from sociocultural to social psychological to information

This book adds a new perspective to existing research methodology literature on analyzing social interactions in the classroom. Not only does this book introduce multiple research methodologies for analyzing classroom interactions but it also demonstrates these methodologies at work in different empirical research studies. The authors of this book are all internationally well recognized for their research work on the social life of classrooms, and now, for the first time, they provide concrete accounts of the ways in which the theories and methodologies they have chosen to guide their...

Collaborative learning has become an increasingly important part of education, but the research supporting it is distributed across a wide variety of fields. This book aims to integrate this theory and research and to forward our understanding of collaborative learning and its instructional applications.

This bookpresents and analysesstudies that examine educational technologies in medical and health sciences education leading to applied, clinical practice. Authors focus on technologies such asdigital learning objects, including video cases and virtual patients; interactive whiteboards with internet searching capability; mobile devices; learning management systems; virtual reality software and 3-D simulations and haptics in para-clinical training. The collection isresearch-based, seeking to expand and synthesise current understandings of both theoretical backgrounds and empirical evidence for...