To increase student engagement, active participation, and performance, personal response systems (clickers) were incorporated into six lecture-based sections of four required courses within the Health Sciences Department major curriculum: freshman-level Anatomy and Physiology I and II, junior-level Exercise Physiology, and senior-level Human Pathophysiology. Clickers were used to gather anonymo...

This article describes evidence-based strategies that are efficient evidence-based strategies that are efficient for providing feedback to students in online courses. Strategies are grouped in categories including course design, faculty roles, and student participation. Integrating diverse feedback methods into course design is a way to promote efficiency in online courses while allowing studen...

The goal of this study was to integrate previous research conducted on student participation in the college classroom. Numerous studies have been completed on engaging students in classroom discussions, but no study has synthesized this information in the form of an extensive literature review. Here, previous research is pulled together to gain a comprehensive overview of the benefits of partic...

An exploratory analysis of an innovative open online courses was conducted on data from discussion threads in order to identify potentially useful evidence of productive student engagement. Social network analysis was used to identify patterns of interaction and engagement between types of users. The graphical representations of these interactions were used to identify central actors within the...

complications and difficulties in modern nursing resulted in a need of continuing education and familiarity with new developments in biological and social sciences. this need is responded by participation in educational courses in organizations and high educational institutes. based on this trend and the observable and continually changes in nursing care methods providing a high level caring se...

background: we aimed to develop and evaluate outcomes of a blended learning (bl) program for nursing and midwifery education in iran. materials and methods: this was a participatory action research project. after designing bl website, providing technological infrastructures, and holding preparatory workshops, 22 blended courses were designed. bl method was implemented for one semester. students...

The aim of this article is to describe our experience in the participation and organization of robot contests, and to show how these actions have increased the activities on robotics in Chile. We describe the annual Latin American IEEE Robotics Competition, we present the IEEE Latin American Robotics Council, we explain our participation in RoboCup, and we present our activities concerning robo...

OBJECTIVE To explore the availability of postgraduate education for health professionals (HPs) working in rheumatology in Europe, and their perceived educational needs and barriers for participation in current educational offerings. METHODS Structured interviews were conducted with national representatives of rheumatology HPs' organisations and an online survey among individual HPs was dissem...

On-line discussion boards play an important role in distance education and web enhanced courses. Recent studies have pointed to on-line discussion board as a promising strategy for promoting collaborative problem solving courses and discovery-oriented activities [Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1996]. However, other research indicates that existing systems for on-line discussion may not always be fully...