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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Audience response systems: technology to engage learners.

30 Aug 2008 An audience response system (ARS) provides a means of infusing interaction into a traditional didactic lecture format, enhancing student attention and learning. It can be used in a variety of ways, with both large and small audiences, to evaluate ... Read more...

Learning nursing procedures: the influence of simulator fidelity and student gender on teaching effectiveness.

30 Aug 2008 Simulation technologies are gaining widespread acceptance across a variety of educational domains and applications. The current research examines whether basic nursing procedure training with high-fidelity versus low-fidelity mannequins results in ... Read more...

Technology and Web-based support.

30 Aug 2008 Electronic health assistance for older adults and their ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Educational Technology'

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• Audience response systems: technology to engage learners. 30 Aug 2008
• Learning nursing procedures: the influence of simulator fidelity and student gender on teaching effectiveness. 30 Aug 2008
• Technology and Web-based support. 30 Aug 2008
• An impoverished machine: challenges to human learning and instructional technology. 30 Jul 2008
• Research Methods Tutor: evaluation of a dialogue-based tutoring system in the classroom. 30 Jul 2008
• Simulation-based education: what's in it for nurse anesthesia educators? 30 Jul 2008
• Using seminar blogs to enhance student participation and learning in public health school classes. 14 Jul 2008
• Making a mark--taking assessment to technology. 10 Jul 2008
• Organizational models of educational technology in U.S. and Canadian medical schools. 29 Jun 2008
• Using web-based video to enhance physical examination skills in medical students. 29 Jun 2008
• Development of the VBLaST: a virtual basic laparoscopic skill trainer. 30 May 2008
• Evaluation of a blog used in a dental terminology course for first-year dental students. 30 May 2008
• Teaching in a distance education program. 13 May 2008
• [Guidelines for hygienic classification of learning technologies] 29 Apr 2008
• Remember the days in the old school yard: from lectures to online learning. 24 Apr 2008
• Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Simulator as a teaching tool for anatomy education. 31 Mar 2008
• A virtual computer lab for distance biomedical technology education. 11 Mar 2008
• Joining the podcast revolution. 28 Feb 2008
• IT-based activity in physiology education: an experience from a developing country. 28 Feb 2008
• Hybrid lecture-online format increases student grades in an undergraduate exercise physiology course at a large urban university. 28 Feb 2008

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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