Exploring pre‐clinical medical students' perception of and participation in active learning: A mixed‐methods transnational study.
Background: Active learning is a learning process that promotes student engagement in constructing knowledge and conceptual understanding, improves critical thinking skills and develops professional competency. In recent years there has been a significant shift of emphasis in higher education from p...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 59; no. 6; pp. 615 - 630 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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