A Contribution to the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
by Howard Groveman MD of San Diego State.
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/mededucation/index.htm
Slashdot | Open Source Biology Initiative
Nick dos Remedios writes "The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative aims to make biological technology more readily available to biologists everywhere. The latest genetics and biology tools should be freely available to researchers over the internet, but instead access is typically restricted by commercial patents and prohibitive licensing fees. BIOS and its associated BioForge aims to overcome these restrictions to innovation by encouraging companies and public sector research organizations to contribute their research tools and technologies to the BioForge repository. In return, users of the technology are bound by an open source license to share all improvements with the original inventors and other license holders."
Thanks to students in the Diploma in Adult Education Program at Vancouver Community College for researching and annotating these web sites.
Brain-based learning hasn't been very prominent recently. The central argument of proponents is that our brain functions best under certain conditions...and when we factor these conditions into the design and learning process, we increase the success of the learning experience. Brain links offers many articles and resources.
http://instructordiploma.com/core/Bob'%20folder/websites.htm
OmniMedicalSearch.com is a "metasearch of medical search engines." See the Overview page for information about different kinds of searches and the resources they use.
From ResearchBuzz:
"There are over 2000 medical tutorials in the Spider Nevi search engine, with a further 7000 tutorials waiting to be reviewed. Unfortunately, the search engine isn't work-safe, since recent searches are put on the front page, and some people are searching for obscenities, but if you can get past that, you might like Spider Nevi."
"The results I found here were not always so much as tutorials as encyclopedia entries, but they were informative. I tried 'psoriasis' found three results, all from a family medical practice site. A search for 'flu' found 17 results, but unfortunately, partial word matches found words like 'fluid.'
I like the idea, but I'd like to see a lot more content here, with some distinction between what's an encyclopedia entry and what's an actual interactive tutorial. It'd be nice if there were a switch between regular search and automatic stemming search as well. Still in progress."
This is a rubric of the five competency standards for higher education in information literacy from the Association of College and Research Libraries.
http://zircon.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/warehouse/01301-01400/01330/Researchrubric-1.htm
West Virginia offers free online ˜mini-medical school'
October 1, 2003
West Virginia residents can interact with medical professionals during upcoming online sessions of the Charleston Area Medical Center's Mini-Medical School, the Associated Press reports. Each of the free sessions covers a different health topic and includes a question and answer segment in which participants can e-mail anonymous health questions to doctors and pharmacists. œIt provides the community with health information from the experts when they're not sitting in the doctor's office fearful or wondering what's going to happen to them medically,� said Beverly Withrow, an education specialist at CAMC's Health Information Center. œThis provides a different venue for them " a relaxed venue and a learning venue.� The anonymous setting also lets people discuss sensitive health issues, said Adam Renfrow, a spokesman for Sonic Foundry, the company that is providing the audio and video technology for the sessions. CAMC began presenting the live online Mini-Medical School sessions in April, Withrow said. On Thursday, the medical center will present œIntestinal Diseases 101,� which will focus on detection, diagnosis, management and treatment of intestinal diseases. Another session, œThyroid Disease 101,� will be held in November (Saxton, Associated Press, 9/30). Mini-Medical School Online
Recent Additions to MissingLink Andreas Vesalius: On the Fabric of the Human Body "This website presents Andreas Vesalius' Renaissance anatomical atlas ... in an exciting new way and explains the work in progress at Northwestern University to translate" this historical work from Latin into English. Includes a biography, images of the woodcut illustrations, essays, a glossary of surgical terms, and bibliography. Searchable. http://vesalius.northwestern.edu/ Subjects: Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564... HHMIs Biointeractive "Become a scientist in ... virtual labs, where you can identify deadly pathogens, probe heart patients, dissect a leech, or assay antibodies!" This site offers a variety of interactive learning features, along with background materials, glossaries, and teaching tips. In addition to virtual laboratories, the site features animations such as "Anatomy of the Cochlea" and interactive exhibits on topics such as biological clocks and cardiovascular disease. From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). http://www.biointeractive.org/
NeuroLogic Exam Learning Module by Media Solutions @ University of Utah
Client: Paul D. Larsen, MD (University of Nebraska Medical Center); Suzanne S. Stensaas, PhD (University of Utah School of Medicine); Alejandro Stern (Fundación Stern, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Lead Designers: Paul E. Burrows and Eric Carlson (Also posted to MissingLink.)
http://medstat.med.utah.edu/neurologicexam/home_exam.html
The Wisc Online, the Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a collection of over 1000 learning objects.
http://www.wisc-online.com/index.htm
Medical Rounds - Multimedia Grand Rounds By sleslie on Learning Objects Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:44 PM
This site, in part the work of the Lion's Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, presents a large collection of talks on a variety of medical topics in the form of quicktime audio streams and slide shows. One could argue for a variety of reasons that these aren't 'proper' learning objects, but it seemed a good way of disseminating some of the knowledge, as well as some of the dialog, that is found in teaching hospitals and medical rounds across the country. The issue it did raise for me, though, was how quickly some of this scientific knowledge becomes dated, and how important it is to be clear about when a certain presentation took place. - SWL
The Portal for Online Objects in Learning
The Portal for Online Objects in Learning (POOL) project is a consortium of educational, private and public sector organizations to develop an infrastructure for learning object repositories. The project addresses metadata, software and hardware, and bootstrapping the system with initial content. It makes tools available for download, to help set up similar infrastructures elsewhere and to connect them to POOL..... Kevin adds: A SPLASH indeed, right down to their federated search.
http://www.edusplash.net/