How different do these two teaching situations have to be? Might large-class instruction be more effective if instructors adopted the teaching strategies of expert tutors?
Multiple studies focused on use of the computer as the medium to deliver instruction and noted that self-directed instruction was equally (or more) effective as instructor-led didactic or interactive instruction and potentially more efficient.
However, for weak students in the nonmajors' course, the combination mode is only slightly more effective than the instructor-explanation mode.
PORTAAL provides a suite of easy to implement and evidence-based elements that will ease instructors' transitions to this more effective teaching method and assist instructors in objectively documenting their progress toward accomplishing this educational goal.
Research suggests that redesigning the classroom can help facilitate more effective interactive instruction if instructors are willing to change practice accordingly.
Some students found that it was even more effective to combine the instructor's notes with other available resources, such as course assignments.
Our goal is to help developers improve their efforts in creating new learning materials and teaching strategies with an eye towards eventual use by others, employing more effective strategies for developing instructor expertise in using new learning materials and teaching strategies, and addressing challenges to widespread implementation of educational innovations.
Therefore, we see value in future work to test the hypothesis that active-learning instructors are more effective at facilitating student learning when they possess and apply knowledge of how to explicitly facilitate students' metacognitive regulation of their own learning.
The GeDI can help us, as a community of instructors, build more effective teaching modules.
To start: Compose a well-defined idea, such as Creating A More Effective Curriculum For K-12 Instructors, or Creating A Better Way To Assist Lab Technicians.
Additionally, the combination of peer instruction and instructor explanation has been shown to be more effective than either peer instruction or instructor explanation alone (Smith et al., 2011).
