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Can Mobile Health Training Meet the Challenge of "Measuring Better"?
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Winters, Niall; Oliver, Martin; Langer, Laurenz – Comparative Education, 2017
Mobile learning has seen a large uptake in use in low- and middle-income countries. This is driven by rhetorics of easy scaling, reaching the hard-to-reach and the potential for generating analytics from the applications used by learners. Healthcare training has seen a proliferation of apps aimed at improving accountability through tracking and…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Handheld Devices, Distance Education
Mobile Devices and Their Use in Library Professional Practice: The Health Librarian and the Ipad
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Duncan, Vicky; Kumaran, Maha; Lê, Mê-Linh; Murphy, Susan – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2013
Mobile devices are being extensively adopted by health sciences faculty, students, and practitioners, but there is little evidence of how this technology is being used by health librarians in their own professional practice. In 2011, health sciences librarians at the University of Saskatchewan undertook a project to familiarize themselves with…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Health Sciences
Do Dynamic Work Instructions Provide an Advantage over Static Instructions in a Small Scale Assembly Task?
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Watson, Gareth; Butterfield, Joe; Curran, Ricky; Craig, Cathy – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Recent studies exploring the effects of instructional animations on learning compared to static graphics have yielded mixed results. Few studies have explored their effectiveness in portraying procedural-motor information. Opportunities exist within an applied (manufacturing) context for instructional animations to be used to facilitate build…
Descriptors: Animation, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
A Simple, Low-Cost Stereographic Video Capture and Viewing Solution for Teaching Psychomotor Skills Using Online Delivery
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White, Ian – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
It is recognised that the teaching of complex psychomotor skills using online delivery is difficult without the support of either face-to-face coaching and tuition or a stereoscopic viewing system that provides users with a feel for the spatial nature of the skills being taught. To date, the limitations of bandwidth, and the high cost and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Psychomotor Skills, Handheld Devices, Video Technology
Effective Training for Millennial Students
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Werth, Eric P.; Werth, Loredana – Adult Learning, 2011
A generational shift is occurring in training environments worldwide, a shift that promises to bring with it a dramatic and long-lasting impact. Just as years ago, those of the Baby Boomer generation passed the torch to Generation X, today the process is starting anew with Generation X and those who have come to be known as the Millennials.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Training Methods, Generational Differences, Training
Evaluation of Two Instruction Methods to Increase Employment Options for Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Burke, Raymond V.; Andersen, Melissa N.; Bowen, Scott L.; Howard, Monica R.; Allen, Keith D. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
We evaluated the efficacy of a vocational training program including behavioral skills training, and a "performance cue system" (i.e., a proprietary iPhone application adapted for the study) to teach targeted social-vocational skills to six young adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. In two separate studies, participants were employed…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Employment, Fire Protection, Young Adults