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Amazon's SimpleDB provides a low-cost, scalable solution for applications requiring robust, potentially processor-intensive database tasks. This article describes lessons learned by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory (AADLC) while using Amazon SimpleDB as a cloud storage solution to support a new mobile learning application.
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TAGS: Design and Development, Mobile Learning
The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of electronic media and digital media (e-supplements) with traditional (face to face) classroom sessions affect final exam grades and course grades. Fifty MBA graduate students (two sections) in a very traditional research methods course had the option to use Web links, PDF files, Doc files, YouTube videos, and other topical resources to supplement and augment their classroom experience. Learning activities were intentionally developed from several important theoretical positions.
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TAGS: Program Evaluation, Theories and Principles
Research suggests that virtual learning could considerably augment, if not eventually revolutionize medical education. In this study, medical students were provided with an opportunity to engage in an online, simulated Second Life environment in order to interactively address problem-based presentations of surgical disease within a safe, confidential, realistic and engaging medical educational platform.
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TAGS: Digital Literacy, Games and Simulations, Learning Platforms, Social Learning
In this article University of Ottawa educators discuss the use of the iPod Touch as an efficient tool to accommodate dyslexic medical student's during Objective Structured Clinical Examinations.
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TAGS: Blended Learning, Delivery Technology, Mobile Learning
At GameTech11 Dr. Alicia Sanchez, Defense Acquisitions University, and Dr. Clint Bowers, University of Central Florida, presented Top 10 Research Findings in Games. In this interview with eLearn Magazine, Dr. Sanchez provides an overview of the research.
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TAGS: Games and Simulations, Theories and Principles
If educators adopt Twitter as part of the online learning environment, can it be successfully leveraged inside and outside the classroom? With little preexisting research, it is important to understand the implications of combining social networking with class participation.
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TAGS: Program Evaluation, Social Learning
In less than a year since its debut the popularity of the iPad has not waned. In fact mobile devices are predicted to replace traditional PCs. At the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa, instructors were certain that incorporating mobile computing into the examination environment would benefit not only the university, but students as well. Read more about their experience in moving from paper to paperless exams to evaluate second year medical students.
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TAGS: Mobile Learning, Program Evaluation