BACKGROUND Orthopedic surgical education in Canada has seen major change in the last 15 years. Work hour restrictions and external influence have led to new approaches for surgical training. With a change toward competency-based educational models under the CanMEDS headings there is a need to ensure the validity of modern assessment methods. Our objective was to evaluate the reliability of a cu...

BACKGROUND In 2013, a cohort of public health students participated in a 'flipped' Environmental and Occupational Health course. Content for the course was delivered through NextGenU.org and active learning activities were carried out during in-class time. This paper reports on the design, implementation, and evaluation of this novel approach. METHODS Using mixed-methods, we examined learning...

Computer-based scaffolding provides temporary support that enables students to participate in and become more proficient at complex skills like problem solving, argumentation, and evaluation. While meta-analyses have addressed between-subject differences on cognitive outcomes resulting from scaffolding, none has addressed within-subject gains. This leaves much quantitative scaffolding literatur...

In this paper we present the evolution of a metadata-based course portal, the Open Learning Repository (OLR for short). Different instructional models and principles are integrated in order to meet different learning and teaching strategies. To achieve this, different metadata models (domain model, instructional model, cooperative and structural model) are designed and mapped. In a scenario-bas...