Educational Technology - Standards
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Instructor satisfaction with a technology-based resource for diabetes education.

25 May 2009 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate instructor use patterns and satisfaction with DM Educate, a comprehensive, Web-based diabetes course. METHODS: Instructors completed a post-course survey instrument to assess their use of course materials and components, as ... Read more...

Video games: a route to large-scale STEM education?

31 Dec 2008 Video games have enormous mass appeal, reaching audiences in the hundreds of thousands to millions. They also embed many pedagogical practices known to be effective in other environments. This article reviews the sparse but encouraging data on ... Read more...

An educational game for teaching clinical practice guidelines to Internal Medicine residents: development, feasibility and acceptability.

16 Nov 2008 BACKGROUND: Adherence to Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) remains suboptimal among internal medicine trainees. Educational games are of growing interest and have the potential to improve adherence to CPGs. The objectives of this study were to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Educational Technology - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Instructor satisfaction with a technology-based resource for diabetes education. 25 May 2009
• Video games: a route to large-scale STEM education? 31 Dec 2008
• An educational game for teaching clinical practice guidelines to Internal Medicine residents: development, feasibility and acceptability. 16 Nov 2008
• Sharing innovation: the case for technology standards in health professions education. 30 Dec 2007
• Review of ICT-based services for identified unmet needs in people with dementia. 31 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
• Peer reviewing e-learning: opportunities, challenges, and solutions. 29 Apr 2007
• Virtual patient simulation at US and Canadian medical schools. 29 Apr 2007
• Effective management of anaesthetic crises: development and evaluation of a college-accredited simulation-based course for anaesthesia education in Australia and New Zealand. 30 Dec 2005
• Substance use and young people: the potential of technology. 30 Mar 2005
• Developing practical criteria for evaluating online patient simulations: a preliminary study. 27 Feb 2005
• Midwifery online: designing a winning web site. 30 Dec 2004
• A randomized trial comparing digital and live lecture formats [ISRCTN40455708. 27 Nov 2004
• Using information technology for patient education: realizing surplus value? 30 Jul 2004
• When redundant on-screen text in multimedia technical instruction can interfere with learning. 30 Dec 2003
• Rehabilitation professionals' satisfaction with continuing education delivered at a distance using different technologies. 30 Dec 2003
• Meeting the computer technology needs of community faculty: building new models for faculty development. 30 Dec 2003
• Developing children and multicultural attitudes: the systemic psychosocial influences of television portrayals in a multimedia society. 30 Oct 2003
• Will virtual learning make the grade? 29 Sep 2003
• A comparison between three electronic media and in-person learning for continuing education in physical rehabilitation. 30 Dec 2002

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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