blended learning

Blended learning in medicine courses

01.06.2015 Education, Projects, Research

My name is Nora Grotenfelt and I work as a teacher in medicine at Arcada since 2013. When I started, I was asked to completely restructure the two courses in medicine according to the blended classroom pedagogy as a pilot project. Now I´m going to tell you the story about how it all worked out… Around 130 students per year enroll for the two courses in medicine (5 cr each)…

Students love the new trend in education…

02.12.2014 Education, Research

I have just finished an ICT course with almost 500 students. To make this work smoothly I’ve decided to jump on a (relatively) new trend in education called Flipped classroom. The idea is simple, you let the students absorb the knowledge at home (or wherever they are), and when they come to class you do the real work to understand and apply the newly acquired knowledge. In my case, I…