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This paper identifies and discusses a set of conceptual issues relating to institutional strategies for enabling the embedding of learner-centric hybrid learning processes within educational institutions. Starting with the Ecology of Resources model of learning, we identify "filters" that limit the adoption of new and hybrid learning processes in formal contexts. The related "boundary"...
This paper addresses some of the most important unresolved issues of interdisciplinary education (IPE) for healthcare by describing our experiences and processes in developing and validating qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools to assess IPE courses and programs (online and face- to-face). The instruments (available in both English and French) include a program evaluation survey based on...
Currently we see a plethora of learning object repositories that address the need to share learning content with peers within and across educational institutions. We also observe a growing interest in standards and tool functionality to model didactic scenarios describing the social, spacial and temporal configuration of learning arrangements. These scenarios also specify physical resources, software...
Education needs to be sustainable and one way to achieve educational sustainability is through developing students' interest in scholarly articles. Introducing scholarly articles in the classroom is often compellingly challenging for both the lecturer and students, largely because most of these articles are too complicated for some students. In this paper, we introduce a practiced-based technique...
The rapid technological changes in the world have caused universities to keep changing their approach to teaching by incorporating technology into teaching. In the universities in the Caribbean, technology is incorporated in the teaching in ways such as providing open and distant education or providing course management systems. This paper presents a different approach to an online course. This approach...
A computer-based flight simulator is a system trying to simulate the experience of actually flying an aircraft as realistic as possible on a PC. While there are highly sophisticated systems on the market that can be even used in pilot training, their degree of complexity is too high for use in basic scientific education. Yet, flying is a source of fascination that can call forth students interest...
We developed an interactive patient learning system for use on Blackberry devices to inform hypertension subjects about their chronic condition and enforce knowledge retention by questioning the user. The system uses the Blackberry's internet connection to retrieve hypertension information from a database and plays recorded audio files corresponding to hypertension information messages. The application...
Within all aspects of healthcare education, the teaching and learning of anatomy and physiology is regarded as the singularly most problematic area of the curriculum. This paper outlines a project currently in development to create an online tool that utilizes problem-based learning strategies to contextualize anatomy and physiology education; basing the learning on real-world scenarios will aim to...
The paper focuses on the use of multiple pedagogical methods in an LMS and is based on interviews of instructors in higher education. The pedagogical methods discussed are; drill and practice, presentation, tutorial, gaming, demonstration, discovery, problem solving, simulation, discussion and collaborative learning. The pedagogical method usually used in the LMS is (written, audio, video) presentation,...
The rapid proliferation of mobile devices nationally coupled with high levels of individual ownership both nationally and internationally provide many opportunities for exploring ways in which students own mobile devices might be integrated into teaching and learning activities in higher education. Amongst other benefits, mobile learning is seen as providing considerable opportunities to link formal...
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