Vanth: a Center for the Integration of Bioengineering, Learning Science and Learning Technology

This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number EEC-9876363. AbstractThe VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies is dedicated to the development of new approaches to bioengineering education. The center is a partnership among Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, University of Texas at Austin and the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program (VaNTH). Through collaboration with learning scientists, we are developing new ways to formulate and deliver learning materials in bioengineering. The Center houses projects in basic learning science and technology that can be applied in bioengineering education at all levels, projects aimed at the development of new materials in the principal domains of bioengineering, projects on the formulation of new computing methods for course delivery and projects in the development of assessment methods for the effectiveness of these materials. New concepts stemming from psychology and neuroscience illuminating how people learn will undergird the effort to develop new technologies.