Previously, we published an article providing an overview of the Rosetta suite of biomacromolecular modeling software and a series of step-by-step tutorials [Kaufmann, K. W., et al. (2010) Biochemistry 49, 2987-2998]. The overwhelming positive response to this publication we received motivates us to here share the next iteration of these tutorials that feature de novo folding, comparative model...

Authoring tutorials for complex software applications is a time consuming process. It also highly depends on the tutorial designer’s skill level and experience. This paper introduces an approach which automatically generates software tutorials using the digital artifacts produced by the users of a software program. We model this process as an optimal planning problem using software produced art...

This paper reports on the effectiveness of using an online solution to support the implementation of PBL with a group of final-year Pharmacy students who were undertaking a rural clinical practicum placement. The online PBL tutorials were both teacherand studentled, using progressively-released static html pages and the discussion board in WebCT. The aim of this study was to investigate the eff...

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Difficulties with plaintext passwords are well-documented. Many alternative authentication schemes have been proposed, but a key evaluation metric has typically been ignored: learnability. For wide deployment, some form of tutorial is the most assistance users would be provided. This paper presents the results of two user studies (one local and one on Amazon Mechanical Turk) of 134 total partic...

INTRODUCTION There have been a number of published studies examining the link between the effectiveness of the problem-based learning (PBL) process and students' performance in examinations. In a hybrid PBL/lectures curriculum, the results of such studies are of limited use because of the difficulty in dissociating the knowledge gained at lectures from that gained through PBL-related activities...

BACKGROUND Bedside teaching lies at the heart of medical education. The learning environment afforded to students during clinical tutorials contributes substantially to their knowledge, thinking, and learning. Situated cognition theory posits that the depth and breadth of the students' learning experience is dependent upon the attitude of the clinical teacher, the structure of the tutorial, and...

We discuss the online teaching of Linear algebra using the Wolfram Research software product called webMathematica. The teaching is based on interactive electronic tutorials developed by the author. The tutorials provide distant students with the instruments of remote calculation and visualization of the calculation results. All this increases the chances for students to deepen the understandin...

BACKGROUND The aim of this review was to summarise the experience on implementation of information technology to support the teaching and learning process in medicine. Particular attention was paid to web-based tutorials, their impact on increasing the effectiveness of medical instruction and motivation of students towards self-directed learning. Most of the studies selected for the purpose of ...

Near-Peer Teaching is a relatively new and expanding area of medical education. The benefit to medical students has been demonstrated in numerous contexts around the world. Our aim was to establish a structured Intern-Led Teaching (ILT) programme in the context of an Irish Intern Training Network affiliated to an Irish Medical School. We then sought to evaluate the success of this programme. Se...