Educational Technology - Instrumentation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Podcasts--an adjunct to the teaching of dentistry.

12 Feb 2009 The aim of this study was to evaluate how clinical students reacted to the use of Podcasts for undergraduate teaching. The most popular way of listening to them was on a computer. Students scored highly the subject matter of the Podcasts and used ... Read more...

Virtual reality laparoscopic simulator as an aid in surgical resident education: two years' experience.

30 Dec 2008 BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Virtual reality (VR) laparoscopic simulator training has been shown to augment the learning of skills needed in real laparoscopic operations. We report here our two-year experience of using a VR simulator in the training of ... Read more...

Evaluation of an audience response system in a preclinical operative dentistry course.

30 Oct 2008 Student performance was compared on written and psychomotor skill tests of freshman dental students receiving conventional lectures versus the same lectures containing interactive components using TurningPoint, a wireless audience response system ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Educational Technology - Instrumentation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Podcasts--an adjunct to the teaching of dentistry. 12 Feb 2009
• Virtual reality laparoscopic simulator as an aid in surgical resident education: two years' experience. 30 Dec 2008
• Technology draws in the crowd. Mayo Clinic enhances live presentations with survey tool. 30 Oct 2008
• Evaluation of an audience response system in a preclinical operative dentistry course. 30 Oct 2008
• A primer on audience response systems: current applications and future considerations. 13 Aug 2008
• Research Methods Tutor: evaluation of a dialogue-based tutoring system in the classroom. 30 Jul 2008
• An impoverished machine: challenges to human learning and instructional technology. 30 Jul 2008
• A virtual computer lab for distance biomedical technology education. 11 Mar 2008
• A description of the new technologies used in transforming dental education. 10 Jan 2008
• Simulation technology for skills training and competency assessment in medical education. 30 Dec 2007
• Millimetric laparoscopic surgery training on a physical trainer using rats. 18 Nov 2007
• A collaborative virtual reality environment for neurosurgical planning and training. 30 Oct 2007
• A method for creating interactive content for the iPod, and its potential use as a learning tool: technical advances. 20 Sep 2007
• An integrated laparoscopic simulator (i-Sim) to develop surgical skills outside the operating theatre: a novel means to improve training facilities in the UK. 8 Jul 2007
• eMedical Teacher. Beware of passive attitudes to e-teaching and e-learning and be more aware of the fundamental effects of technology (and its failure) on the psychological health of your organisation! 30 May 2007
• Use of classroom "clickers" to promote acquisition of advanced reasoning skills. 17 Apr 2007
• Human performance testing and simulators. 27 Feb 2007
• Review of trainers for transurethral resection of the prostate skills. 27 Feb 2007
• Laparoscopy simulators. 27 Feb 2007
• Percutaneous renal access simulators. 27 Feb 2007

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Technical information about 'Educational Technology'

Definition: Systematic identification, development, organization, or utilization of educational resources and the management of these processes. It is occasionally used also in a more limited sense to describe the use of equipment-oriented techniques or audiovisual aids in educational settings. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, December 1993, p132)

Descriptor UI: D018961

Alternative terms: Educational Technology; Technology, Educational; Educational Technologies; Technologies, Educational; Instructional Technology; Technology, Instructional; Instructional Technologies; Technologies, Instructional;

Related Mesh Headings: Teaching Materials;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: J01.897.280;

History Note: 96

Technical Notes: IM; coord with field or medium of educ (IM); DF: EDUC TECHNOL