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"Both HFS and LFS learning resulted in consistent improvements in performance in comparisons with no-intervention control groups. However, nearly all the studies showed no significant advantage of HFS over LFS, with average differences ranging from 1% to 2%."

We have developed a model that provides faculty a strategy for integrating emerging technologies into the classroom. The model is grounded in student learning and may be applied to any technology. We present the model alongside examples from faculty who have used it to incorporate technology into their health sciences classrooms.

"You need to learn how to exercise mindful deployment of your attention online if you are going to become a critical consumer of digital media; productive use of Twitter or YouTube requires knowledge of who your public is, how your participation meets their needs (and what you get in return), and how memes flow through networked publics. Ultimately, the most important fluency is not in mastering a particular literacy but in being able to put all five of these literacies together into a way of being in digital culture."

This page provides help if you want online and distance learning health degree programs that will prepare you for a career in health and medical professions.

An online tutorial developed by Intute and JISC giving an overview of how to use the web to search for medical resources. It highlights some of the key web sites for medicine including professional organisations, subject gateways, databases, electronic journals and learning and teaching materials.

An online publication for daily news, views, blogs and learning relating to medicine. This site combines journalism with medical expertise to cater for the daily information and professional development needs of doctors. The educational content is peer reviewed and authors are required to declare competing interests.

"The CHEC-CESC Commons is a place to support collaborative learning and teaching for the health professions. Members can interact, share, and create resources in a secure and simple online environment."

"Telecommunication can successfully enhance access to simulation-based instruction. In this study, a Web interface downgraded the quality of student-faculty communication. Future investigation is needed to better understand the impact of such an effect on the learning process and to reduce barriers that impede implementation of technology-facilitated supervision."

Blended and interactive learning by means of serious games may be applied to train both technical and non-technical skills relevant to the surgical field. Games developed or used for this purpose need validation before integration into surgical teaching curricula.

While fellows are often believed to be a detracting factor to residency training, we found that pediatric resident attitudes toward the fellows were generally positive. In our experience, in the specialty of neonatology a fellow-led education program can positively contribute to both resident and fellow learning and satisfaction.

"Don't overlook the value of higher-level multiple-choice questions for teaching. In areas where the target audience has some degree of prior knowledge, or where their life experience is relevant, I often make online courses denser by using multiple-choice exercises instead of the more traditional present-and-test format. This technique is also useful when there is room for judgment, or the preferred choice is conditional and you want the student to understand how different circumstances can affect the preferred action."

This is the home page to the Connectivism and Connective Online course which Stephen Downes ran from September - November 2008. You can sign up for an account which will allow you to look at the course resources and give you access to the discussions etc even thought the course has now ended.

A site for creating debates

This post on Jim Groom's blog gives a number of examples and helpful links to institutions who are supporting blogging for both staff and students. Some examples include the University Mary Washington, Calgary and Penn State.

Health sciences database of courses, references, and other learning resources