This work was supported primarily by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number EEC-9876363. AbstractThe VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies is dedicated to the development of new approaches to bioengineering education. The center is a partnership among Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, U...

In this article, I comment on the seven articles that appeared in the special issues of Educational Technology Research and Development (1998, 46(4); 1999, 47(2)) and an associated American Educational Research Association (AERA) symposium, as well as other selected developments in educational technology as presented in a recent edited volume (Jacobson & Kozma, in press). I address the importan...

People with disabilities are frequently mentioned as beneficiaries of participatory approaches during the research and development of technology since their special needs and preferences can be unveiled and channeled through participatory techniques. However, there are some challenges affecting their involvement and sustained participation in largescale R&D technology projects. This paper discu...

Technology centered organizations must be able to identify promising new products or process improvements at an early stage so that the necessary resources can be allocated to those activities. It is essential to invest in targeted research and development (R and D) projects as opposed to a wide range of ideas so that resources can be focused on successful outcomes. The selection of the most ap...

Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional cost/benefit analysis for evaluating information technology (IT) infrastructure projects, research in technology investment suggests the efficacy of taking a real options perspective for evaluating such projects[11, 24]. Option pricing methods (OPMs) help management properly evaluate the opportunities created by IT investments, and are suitable for asse...

This paper reports on a collaborative industrial pilot project on the use of formal methods in the development of safety-related software. In particular we report on our experiences with the use of the reenement techniques ooered by the Cogito methodology as part of the pilot project. The project focused on a software subsystem of a testing device that determines the operational status of a pie...