Classroom clickers, also called group response systems, represent a form of technology-enhanced learning. An instructor can pose a question to the class during a lecture, and students can use their clicker devices to submit their answers. The system immediately aggregates the submissions and presents feedback to the instructor (and possibly the

The necessity to help baccalaureate nursing students transition to clinical practice in a health care environment governed by change has compelled nurse educators to investigate alternative clinical instruction models that nurture academic-practice partnerships and facilitate student clinical learning. This article describes an academic-practice partnership in a community hospital using the Cli...

[In the course in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a class composed of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Education, the students are required to observe and make note of the examination of children brought before the class for that purpose. In the final examination of this class at the end of the first term of the present year the class was required to o...

LINDA A. DIMEFF, PH.D., is a chief sci­ entific officer at Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., a research organization dedicated to the dissemination of evidence-based prac­ tices (EBPs). She is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychology at the Uni­ versity of Washington. Her research inter­ ests include EBPs, addictive behaviors, dialec­ tical behavior therapy (DBT), and the adapta...

Concerns about a lack of face-to-face contact with students, a focus on grading rather than teaching, and limited expertise with technology or needed pedagogical strategies, may contribute to instructor reluctance to teach online. The interaction between the instructor and learner and among learners affects the quality and success of online learning, and the learner’s ability to master the outc...

This case study explores the role of the online instructor and how they influence student satisfaction. While there has been a substantial body of literature on what impacts on student satisfaction when students study online, there is far less literature focussing on how the instructor mediates this satisfaction, in particular satisfaction related to quality of feedback and teaching. This case ...

A geothermal power plant multiple simulator for operators training is presented. The simulator is designed to be installed in a wireless local area network and has a capacity to train one to six operators simultaneously, each one with an independent simulation session. The sessions must be supervised only by one instructor. The main parts of this multiple simulator are: instructor and operator’...

Modell, Harold I., Joel A. Michael, Tom Adamson, and Barbara Horwitz. Enhancing active learning in the student laboratory. Adv Physiol Educ 28: 107–111, 2004; 10.1152/advan.00049.2003.— We previously examined how three approaches to directing students in a laboratory setting impacted their ability to repair a faulty mental model in respiratory physiology (Modell, HI, Michael JA, Adamson T, Gold...

The role of instructors as users/authors of ITS authoring tools is very important for the effectiveness of the produced ITSs. In order for authoring tools to benefit the most from the involvement of instructors, they should provide individualised feedback to them throughout the ITS’s life cycle. In most cases the addition of an instructor modelling component to the architecture of an authoring ...