Comment on Omar Muneeb's post: Its cost effective to have students shown a procedure and practice in groups. Watch a video get in groups and give clear instruction and time limit for practice allowing everyone to practice with the equipment
importance is in understanding your audience.
Both lab and classroom for my course are a great combination of learned skills in the classroom, which now can be applied in the lab. I believe that combination completes that connection and the student meets the requirements, gains confidence and also can meet the competency for the particular field / career.
Students prefer active learning over lecture alone. The learning process depends how well the student wants to know about the course.
Everyone must hear an see what the Instructor is teaching or showing them in the lab.Students can ask any questions they need help in the lab.
It is important to taylor teaching the meet the needs of different learning styles to ensure the success for all students.
The most common known styles of learning are;
Kinesthetic where learning is achieved by doing, being active and by being in motion.
Aural learning includes hearing, whereby the learned material is obtained through lecture and audio recording.
Visual learning is accomplished best by seeing, and developing mental images of what they are learning.
Useful in mentioning that Nursing education expects the student to be competent in all three styles, in order to attain competency-based nursing education.
