Exploring the Opportunity to Use Virtual Reality for the Education of Children with Disabilities.

Inclusive education represents one of the most challenging aspects of modern education. In recent years, a major challenge in achieving inclusivity in education has been to find modern tools that might adapt the teaching process to the needs of children with disabilities. This article investigates the possibility to use virtual reality (VR) technology to improve the learning process of children with disabilities. In this regard, a qualitative study based on the Focus Group method was conducted among 31 specialists who work with children with disabilities, with the aim of identifying potential opportunities and limits of using VR technology in the education of this category of children. The research results reveal that for most of the interviewees the VR application was a new experience; they appreciated that this technology could improve the educational process for children with disabilities and it could become a useful tool to support the education of such children. These results could have a positive impact on the activities carried out by policymakers, academia, and the economic environment in their efforts to implement policies aimed at improving the inclusive education system. To this end, some VR applications could be developed in a collaborative system involving IT companies and universities in the designing and implementation of these applications.

[Specifics of teaching in vascular surgery in an interdisciplinary surgical setting]. / Spezifika der Lehre in der Gefäßchirurgie im interdisziplinär-chirurgischen Setting.

OBJECTIVE: The complex changes in vascular surgical teaching and commonalities are to be outlined and discussed, in particular, similarities/differences to general surgery, specifics of teaching/teaching content and its university requirements. METHOD: Compact narrative overview RESULTS: Vascular surgical teaching component at Magdeburg University Hospital comprises 10 academic teaching hours and includes the following topics: PAD, embolism/thrombosis, vascular injury, compartment syndrome, mesenteric ischemia, aortic aneurysm and venous surgery. This puts vascularsurgical teaching here well above the average of 6.1 academic teaching hours in Germany. The strength of (vascular)surgical training lies in the fact that the knowledge gained at the bedside can be linked to visual impressions and simultaneous explanations in the operating theatre. Close integration of the student into the team is the high art of promoting acceptance of surgery as a profession and vocation. The prerequisites for successful teaching are a didactically competent teacher with specialist expertise, a proactive teaching attitude, knowledge of the specific learning objectives, the curriculum, modern teaching methods and awareness of the special role model function for students. Classical teaching by means of lecture, seminar, practical course and textbook is justified and should be strengthened but it is increasingly supplemented by the use of internet-based learning platforms, libraries and video portals. CONCLUSION: In the coming years, vascular surgical teaching will (have to) shift to a (rather) multimodal/-media approach with more practice-oriented components and intensive integration of students into everyday clinical practice.

Case-based learning: Modern teaching tool meant for present curriculum: A behavioral analysis from faculties' perspective.

BACKGROUND: Case-based learning (CBL) is an established bidirectional active learning approach where students learn concepts by solving cases or problems under the guidance of a facilitator. In the present study, the awareness and acceptance level of faculties to implement this method of teaching were assessed by behavioral analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was done through two workshops organized at NDRI Karnal on December 16 and 17, 2019, and BHU Varanasi on March 1, 2020. Fifty-four faculties from different applied sciences participated. The participants were given an insight into this teaching tool through didactic lecture and hands-on training session about implementation of this method. Pre and post- session responses were compared through a set of questionnaires and the behavioral change was analyzed by using SPSS version 22. P ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. RESULTS: Only 31.5% faculties were aware of the active learning methods though 83% agreed that active learning is better than conventional teaching. 96% agreed that CBL is a better way to develop concepts and nearly 81% agreed that more learning could be done with lesser efforts. The clinical decision-making improve significantly. Pre and post-session mean scores of effectiveness of CBL as a teaching tool were 2.44 ± 0.63 and 2.72 ± 0.53, respectively. CONCLUSION: CBL originally is a mode of imparting knowledge in a student-centric bimodal learning. Acceptance to the mode is increasing among faculties despite of many deterrents.

Simple, but not easy - Opportunities and challenges from teachers' and students' perspectives in the 21st century of veterinary parasitology teaching.

One of the main goals in academia is, and has been, high quality education of students to provide theoretical and practical knowledge essential for professional life. Achieving this goal is highly dependent on teaching procedures and, consequently, on a constant adaptation of teaching styles to align to technical advances and cutting-edge topics. Technical advances can strongly influence teaching and learning in the complex subject area of veterinary parasitology. Today's students are provided with extensive, digital lecture notes, and e-learning offers including virtual microscope technology to independently obtain intensified theoretical knowledge and understanding. As veterinary parasitology is also highly reliant on proficient practical skills, lectures with integrated diagnostic exercises are mandatory. Nowadays, such practical skills, such as carrying out faecal examination procedures, can be strengthened by having access to clinical skills labs. Advances such as digital lecture notes, e-learning and virtual microscopes do not only provide new, innovative opportunities, but can also comprise challenges. In this context, provision of sufficient relevant studying material may discourage students to take on responsibilities for autonomous gathering of information. Besides technical advances, 'Zeitgeist' changes are shaping teaching contents, which are progressively expanding as zoonoses are increasingly being focused on. With the aim of adopting the one-health concept, students today are expected not only to bear responsibilities for animals, but also for their owners and public health. This article will cast light on some key challenges and opportunities in modern veterinary parasitology teaching from the teachers´ and the students´ perspectives.

Método de alfabetização global de contos e o papel da leitura como renovação das práticas e modernidade pedagógica (1918-1938) / Method of global literacy through short stories and the role of reading as a renewal of practice and pedagogical modernity (1918-1938)

RESUMO: O artigo tem por objetivo identificar representações sobre o método de alfabetização global de contos, analisando o papel da leitura no processo de renovação das práticas de ensino e na instauração da modernidade. Tomando o jornal Gazeta do Norte como fonte documental, constatou-se que a cidade de Montes Claros - MG fez adesão à Reforma Francisco Campos (1927-1928), que impôs o método global de contos para alfabetizar com base na compreensão dos textos e não apenas na memorização de unidades linguísticas. Os discursos disseminados ainda indicam que o ensino da leitura deveria possibilitar a pesquisa, a reflexão e o uso da linguagem em diferentes situações comunicativas.

ABSTRACT: This article aims to identify representations about the global method of literacy through short stories, analyzing the role of reading in the process of renewal of teaching practices and the establishment of pedagogical modernity. Taking the newspaper 'Gazeta do Norte' as a document source, we found that the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, joined the Francisco Campos Reform (1927-1928) which imposed the global method of short storiesto teach how to read and write based on the understanding of texts not only in the memorization of linguistic units. The disseminated speeches also indicate that reading teaching should enable research, reflection and language use in different communicative situations.

Discusion on Improvement of Standardized Teaching Based on the Teaching Mode of PBL Teaching Method Combined with the Situational Teaching of the Internal Medicine / 浙江中医药大学学报

[Objective] Based on the combination of teaching in the scientific scenario of PBL teaching mode improving the status of implementation of standardized teaching.[Methods]Firstly,domestic science teaching methods summary review and classification details of the traditional teaching methods,problem-centered teaching methods,teaching scenarios and situational approach combining four kinds of PBL teaching content as well as the first three inadequate teaching methods.And analysis showed that this method can promote standardization within science teaching implemented.[Results] The combination of PBL teaching scenarios for students can play an active role,while teachers also have some pedagogical implications.[Conclusion]The combination of PBL teaching scenario of higher professional level of teachers,innovation and professionalism requirements,etc.,in the teaching process,also requires teachers to have a certain ability to manage the classroom and modern teaching philosophy to fully mobilize students active learning.

Establish The Modern Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Part Ⅲ New Discipline：Discipline Regularity, Deepening the Field, the Formation of A Branch, Towards Modern Teaching / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

We present that the modern basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine is a new science in this article. To demonstrate the problem new discipline faced and needed to be understood, firstly we want to clear the related concepts of discipline and traditional Chinese medicine from an international perspective achieving the original inten-tion of deepening the research field, forming a discipline branch and towards modern teaching. Secondly, we explore the discipline classification system and in which the location of traditional Chinese medicine and theory of traditional Chinese medicine discipline, and then explore the discipline overall regularity of occurrence, development and demise focusing on regularity and evaluation criteria reveal of medicine and traditional Chinese medicine disciplines. On this basis, we demonstrate the discipline property and location of new scientific disciplines of modern basic theo-ry of traditional Chinese medicine, subjects and fields, direction and meaning and then draw a credible conclusion in accordance with deductive reasoning.