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The article advances and describes a new way to strengthen the capacity of health workers in the domain of supply chain management of medicines. Although the focus on SCM in health is relatively recent, a well-functioning supply chain system embedded within the overall health system is nowadays recognized as a prerequisite for the continuous availability […]
Concerns around quality of care and patient safety have been key drivers behind the increased interest in improving informatics competencies among health care providers. The purpose of this study was to develop an informatics educational intervention for baccalaureate nursing students and compare outcomes associated with vodcasting and face-to-face methods for delivering this material. Following a […]
This paper explores the potential of technology to enhance the assessment and feedback process for both staff and students. The ‘Making Connections’ project aimed to better understand the connections that students make between the feedback that they receive and future assignments, and explored whether technology can help them in this activity. The project interviewed 10 […]
The purpose of this work is to contribute to the body of knowledge on processes by which students develop interdisciplinary understanding of contents, as well as to suggest technology-enhanced means for supporting them in these processes in the context of higher education. In doing so, we suggest a rethinking of three traditional practices that tend […]
D2L’s Brightspace is the first LMS to gather student data from across the learning ecosystem–including mobile apps and devices, games, and video–and deliver that intelligence so teachers can act in real-time Desire2Learn
Pop quiz: What did two of the world’s foremost artificial intelligence experts do after leaving Google? Did you answer, “Go start online education startups?” Well done! That was the move of both Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google’s deep learning research, and Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of the Google X research lab. Ng left for Coursera, only […]
Open educational resources free students and faculty from the tyranny of the textbook. Here’s how to encourage large-scale adoption. Campus Technology
INDIANAPOLIS — Finding the right technology is one thing. Finding a place for technology across a university — and creating the support structures to make sure it is put to good use — is a whole other challenge, according to the results from this year’s Campus Computing Project survey. Inside Higher Ed
The Raw Data podcast opens a conversation about how big data and networked technologies are changing communities, the economy, politics and human behavior. Stanford University
About five years ago, machine learning reached a point where software could, with guidance from senior lawyers, effectively take over the time–intensive task of legal discovery, in which one party in a lawsuit combs through its documents to determine what it must show to the other side before trial. MIT Technology Review