Spotting Sepsis: Blended Learning to Assess Student Recognition and Management

Spotting Sepsis: Blended Learning to Assess Student Recognition and Management

Blended Learning: The Student Viewpoint

BACKGROUND Blended learning (BL) is defined as "a way of meeting the challenges of tailoring learning and development to the needs of individuals by integrating the innovative and technological advances offered by online learning with the interaction and participation offered in the best of traditional learning." The Gulf Medical University (GMU), Ajman, UAE, offers a number of courses which in...

Assessing Blended Learning: Student Outcomes and Perceptions

This paper describes the conversion of an introductory computing course to the blended learning model at a small, public liberal arts college. Blended learning significantly reduces face-to-face instruction by incorporating rich, online learning experiences. We provide the motivation for the change and report initial results from a pilot study. More specifically, we compare student learning out...

Using Reflection Documents to Assess Student Learning

Inquiry Using Analogies to Assess Student Learning

One of the most powerful pieces of knowledge that students can gain from the study of geology is an understanding of the immense scale of geologic time. In my introductory-level physical geology course at Northern Virginia Community College, we discuss geologic time about one-third of the way through the semester, after a thorough review of plate tectonics and the rock cycle. Because this subje...