Attend SiTEL’s 2011 INNOVATIVE EDUCATION CONFERENCE: MINDFUL LEARNING. Earn CME and nursing contact hours as you engage in Mindful Learning! This year’s conference theme is Mindful Learning. Real learning takes place in “mindful” environments: ones that both provide context for the subject we are studying and allow us to bring something of ourselves into the process. [...]
Google Earth and Google Maps have long helped people search for and map streets, towns and even the universe and its oceans. Now the company is looking to do the same thing on a more micro level.
The Board on Science Education at the National Research Council has just released a new report, “Learning Science: Computer Games, Simulations, and Education.”
Using a gesture-sensitive sensor system for input into immersive environments could have huge implications in the medical training market. Originally, posted on Fast Company, Microsoft’s Kinect is being hacked left, right, and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup [...]
Study shows employees learn best from video games. Long derided as mere entertainment, new research now shows that organizations using video games to train employees end up with smarter, more motivated workers who learn more and forget less. A University of Colorado Denver Business School study found those trained on video games do their jobs [...]
We are proud to announce that the paper “Real-Time Fiber-Optic Intubation Simulator with Force Feedback” written by Ankur R. Baheti, Robert Hafey, Sneha Pai, Jose Gomez, Yuri Millo, and Jaydev P. Desai was accepted for publication in the IEEE/ASME Journal “Transactions on Mechatronics.” The abstract of the paper is below.
From the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine, the Future of Nursing explores how nurses‘ roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America’s [...]
Virtual Worlds, and their incumbent technologies, offer men and women, who operate in high-risk environments, a valuable training platform. The growth of virtual worlds is mind-boggling. More telling perhaps than just the record-breaking number of one billion is the demographic where this is occurring: 468 million virtual world registered users are between the ages of [...]
What follows was excerpted from Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, “The Learning Healthcare System.” As we think strategically about training future healthcare professionals, the training industry will need to design interventions and tools based on dramatic increases in just-in-time bioinformation. The United States can develop a rapid learning healthcare system. New research capabilities [...]
Virtual reality exercises overwhelmingly seen as a good way to sharpen skills, poll finds. The vast majority of medical school students believe that technology in the form of virtual reality exercises could help them to develop the skills they will need as future doctors, a new survey reveals. The survey of 200 medical students from [...]
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