Achieving Equivalent Academic Performance Between Campuses Using a Distributed Education Model

Assessing Academic Performance between Traditional and Distance Education Course Formats

The goal of this study was to explore whether differences in student academic indicators exist between taking a course face-to-face (F2F) and taking a course via distance education (DE). Three hundred and eighty five students were enrolled in a course offered, both, as F2F (n = 116) and as DE (n = 269). Course content, instructor, textbook adopted, and assessment methods were consistent between...

Digital Literacy as a Prerequisite for Achieving Good Academic Performance

Achieving Distributed Control through Model Checking

We apply model checking of knowledge properties to the design of distributed controllers that enforce global constraints on concurrent systems. We calculate when processes can decide, autonomously, to take or block an action so that the global constraint will not be violated. When the separate processes cannot make this decision alone, it may be possible to temporarily coordinate several proces...

Engagement in Distributed Medical School Campuses

Four clinical concepts symptoms, diagnosis, causes, and treatment(s) comprised an easily implementable organizing framework for both individual basic science lectures and for an “integration session” that incorporated clinical and discipline-based foundational sciences. According to most students (>80 %) surveyed, this approach facilitated a novel and more meaningful appreciation of basic scien...

Preceptor engagement in distributed medical school campuses

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in distributed medical campuses and engagement of physicians in these communities. To date, there has been suboptimal recruitment of physicians to participate in medical education at distributed campuses. The purpose of this project was to identify barriers to engagement in medical education by community physicians in the geographical catchment of the Wat...