Flipped classrooms, asynchronous learning, gamification, and multimodality are familiar concepts in education, and Choose Your Own Adventure-style instruction brings together these ideas by allowing the student to direct their own path through more traditional learning materials. But while nonlinear structure offers significant opportunities to reinforce learning objectives, model behavior, and...

The success of e-Learning course material [12,18] is based on the pedagogical principles. Few of the principles are curriculum design with specific objectives, consideration of different social groups, learner engagement, ease of use, and ensure the acquisition of learning objectives with formative and summative assessment. But due to over-focusing on technology and dissemination of content, th...

“Ensuring inclusive and quality education for all to promote lifelong learning” is among the United Nations’ global time-critical sustainable development challenges. Massive open online courses and other online learning systems can potentially address this challenge by fostering high-quality online learning at scale. However, online learning introduces complex challenges that involve multiple d...

Today’s global economy requires a rapid time-to-market, placing heavier demands on design, prototyping, testing. and production. Those demands have challenged scientists and engineers to master new tools in the form of computers and software. One software package that has provided the ability to merge the virtual and real worlds has been LabVIEW ® by National Instruments. This paper describes h...

In addition to supporting immediate instructional objectives, online learning environments can enable participants to gain value from a network of scholars and resources. This potential value in a technology-mediated network has been termed socio-technical capital. Our software, Prometheus, is being used to support online university level education and teacher professional development under an ...

Efforts to advance research integrity in light of concerns about misbehavior in research rely heavily on education in the responsible conduct of research (RCR). However, there is limited evidence for the effectiveness of RCR instruction as a remedy. Assessment is essential in RCR education if the research community wishes to expend the effort of instructors, students, and trainees wisely. This ...

Despite rapid progress, most of the educational technologies today lack a strong instructional design knowledge basis leading to questionable quality of instruction. In addition, a major challenge is to customize these educational technologies for a wide range of instructional designs. Ontologies are one of the pertinent mechanisms to represent instructional design in the literature. However, e...

Instituted in major medical programs only within the past decade, the advent of an 'expanded' 8-year medical curriculum reflects a major reformation of how physicians are trained in China. Although much remains to be done, including the refinement of associated learning objectives, instructional models, and teaching pedagogies, movement toward a longer, more standardized training framework repr...

BACKGROUND Fourth-degree perineal lacerations are an uncommon, unpredictable injury that family physicians may face. METHODS After a needs assessment and feasibility review, we developed goals, objectives, instructional tools, and a feedback survey for a curriculum using a novel model to simulate perineal laceration repair. RESULTS Fifty-six learners evaluated the session, expressing increa...

Serious Educational Games (SEG) are an increasing segment of K-18 instructional resources and have made headway into human resource and professional development training. The difficulty of creating complex adaptable learning activities can constrain SEG developers. Current SEGs tend to be narrow in content or limited in the types of learning assessed, i.e. rote practice and objective learning. ...