Articles
Film as a Teaching Resource
by Joseph E. Champoux
Journal of Management Inquiry, September 2007
Contemporary classroom instructors and trainers have many media available for instruction. Traditional forms include lecture/discussion and printed media such as book materials or projected text. Visual forms include overhead projection of drawings, slide projection of images, or computer projection of slides. I recommend adding film and film scenes to existing instructional media. This recommendation raises questions about media, cognition, and learning. Several lines of research suggest different learning effects of different media forms.
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Teaching Medical Ethics to First-Year Students by Using Film Discussion to Develop Their Moral Reasoning
by Donnie J. Self, PhD, DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr., and Margie Olivarez
Academic Medicine, May 1993
Purpose. To evaluate a project on teaching medical ethics to first year students by using film discussion to develop the students’ moral reasoning.
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