Do you want to:
- improve students’ motivation to learn?
- encourage students to integrate knowledge across subject boundaries?
- develop students’ problem-solving skills?
- foster deep learning and critical analysis?
- increase students’ enjoyment of their studies?
- lay sound foundations for life-long learning?
and increase your satisfaction with the teaching process?
This is what case-based learning and problem-based learning aim to do.
Case-based learning (CBL) and problem-based learning (PBL) are ways of making real or simulated ‘cases’ (or patients) central to student learning. Using methods of inquiry, group problem-solving and knowledge construction, the class explores a scenario you present them with. They identify the need to acquire relevant content and skills, and acting as a facilitator you guide them through the resources they need to achieve curriculum objectives. |
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This integration of practical applications with theoretical information makes content directly relevant to the students as professionals-in-training and provides them with a cognitive framework that makes immediate sense in a real context.
OBJECTIVES OF THIS WEB SITE
This web site is an outcome of 'Case Coordination in the Faculty of Health Science', a Teaching & Learning project initiative. It is based on sharing some examples of good teaching practice that have been observed across the Faculty. This teaching resource has been designed to:
- provide common understanding of the application of case methods to the teaching of health sciences;
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- provide some guidelines for case teaching which can be used by all teaching staff across the Faculty;
which should therefore...
- facilitate the integration of cases into the FHS curricula.
Sometimes the language that has been used in these pages may seem more applicable to the patient-oriented health sciences (Nursing, Medicine and the therapies) and less to the laboratory-oriented sciences (Pharmacology, medical and diagnostic sciences). However, there should be something for everyone here and examples of case teaching have been included from all Schools in the Faculty.
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