BACKGROUND Social media are increasingly used in health professions education. How can innovations and research that incorporate social media applications be adjudicated as scholarship? OBJECTIVE To define the criteria for social media-based scholarship in health professions education. METHOD In 2014 the International Conference on Residency Education hosted a consensus conference of health...

BACKGROUND Social media is an asset that higher education students can use for an array of purposes. Studies have shown the merits of social media use in educational settings; however, its adoption in health science education has been slow, and the contributing reasons remain unclear. OBJECTIVE This multidisciplinary study aimed to examine health science students' opinions on the use of socia...

BACKGROUND During recent years the market for homeopathic education media has increasingly diversified with old (books, seminars) and new media (video-seminars, pc-programs, homeo-wiki and internet-courses). However, little is known about homeopaths' preferences in using educational media and their requirements of this topic. AIM This survey was designed to gain a better understanding of the ...

Media literacy education is not as advanced in the USA as in several other English speaking areas, such as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. Despite decades of struggle since the 1970s by individuals and groups, media education is still only reaching a small percentage of K /12 schools in the US. While some major inroads have been made, such as getting elements of media literacy included in...

Rural clinicians require expertise across a broad range of specialties, presenting difficulty in maintaining currency of knowledge and application of best practice. Free open access medical education is a new paradigm in continuing professional education. Use of the internet and social media allows a globally accessible crowd-sourced adjunct, providing inline (contextual) and offline (asynchron...

New media industry, and in particular those involved with films, games, simulation, visualization and virtual reality, continue to demand more complex and realistic computer generated images. The advent of modern high performance graphics cards means that the computing performance to render the required images in cinematic quality is now available for $200 whereas only five years ago such image...

In their article "Integrating Social Media in Education" Hadewijch Vanwynsberghe and Pieter Verdegem propose a framework in order to integrate social media literacy in an educational setting. In today's networked society students are new media users and hence the relevance in curricula to include social media literacy. Vanwynsberghe and Verdegem propose a multidimensional conceptual framework o...

Social media consists of Internet technologies that allow users to create and share content, and to foster dialogues among other users. Examples include software applications for communication (blogging, social networking, discussion forums), collaboration (wikis, social bookmarking), and multimedia (sharing photographs, video, and livecasting). In the world of science, social media is becoming...

The goal of this paper is to present new media in the specialized visual art classroom (art education classroom). Flexibility, speed, availability, changeability of digital data is what makes new media necessary in the specialized visual art classroom. The media, considering the specific nature of the subject called visual art, can be divided in two types: learning media and articulation (creat...

Updating of the key concepts of media education is absolutely necessary due to the changes introduced by the digital revolution. This article looks into the ways that the key media education concepts are modified in the digital age according to the ongoing, international scientific debate. It suggests their adapting to make them fully relevant to the digital media and participatory culture. The...