A case study for teaching information literacy skills

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The Internet has changed contemporary workplace skills, resulting in a need for proficiency with specific digital, online and web-based technologies within the fields of medicine, dentistry and public health. Although younger students, generally under 30 years of age, may appear inherently comfortable with the use of technology-intensive environments and digital or online search methods, competence in information literacy among these students may be lacking.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>This project involved the design and assessment of a research-based assignment to help first-year, graduate-level health science students to develop and integrate information literacy skills with clinical relevance.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>One cohort of dental students (n = 78) was evaluated for this project and the results demonstrate that although all students were able to provide the correct response from the content-specific, or technology-independent, portion of the assignment, more than half (54%) were unable to demonstrate competence with a web-based, technology-dependent section of this assignment. No correlation was found between any demographic variable measured (gender, age, or race).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>More evidence is emerging that demonstrates the need for developing curricula that integrates new knowledge and current evidence-based practices and technologies, traditionally isolated from graduate and health-care curricula, that can enhance biomedical and clinical training for students. This study provides evidence, critical for the evaluation of new practices, which can promote and facilitate the integration of information literacy into the curriculum.</p

Technology-Supported Storytelling (TSST) Strategy in Virtual World for Multicultural Education

Learning culture through stories is an effective way for multicultural education, since stories are one of the most powerful and personal ways that we learn about the world. Storytelling, the process of telling stories, is a form of communication and a universal expression of culture. With the development of technology, storytelling emerges out of diverse ways. This study explores the storytelling in virtual worlds for multicultural education, and devises a Technology-Supported storytelling (TSST) strategy by examining and considering the characteristics of virtual worlds which could be incorporated into the storytelling, and then uses this strategy to teach Korean culture to students with different culture background. With this innovative TSST strategy in virtual world, this study expects to provide a guide to practice for teaching multicultural in digital era

More than Just a Pretty (Inter) Face: The Role of the Graphical User Interface in Engaging e-Learners

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Objetos de Aprendizagem como elementos facilitadores na Educação a Distância

A expans&#227;o da educa&#231;&#227;o a dist&#226;ncia e o avan&#231;o dos recursos tecnol&#243;gicos traz consigo o desafio da estrutura&#231;&#227;o de materiais did&#225;ticos adequados para apoiar as a&#231;&#245;es pedag&#243;gicas nesses cursos. Neste contexto encontra-se a proposta de materiais did&#225;ticos estruturados como "Objetos de Aprendizagem" (OAs). Considera-se, aqui, que, para al&#233;m de um material digital, um OA precisa funcionar como um elemento facilitador do processo de ensino e de aprendizado; para que isso ocorra, ele deve explicitar seus objetivos pedag&#243;gicos e ser estruturado de tal forma que seja autocontido (no que se refere ao conte&#250;do abordado), permitindo ser reusado em outras atividades ou cursos, para al&#233;m daquela para o qual foi projetado. Com foco na explicita&#231;&#227;o de seus objetivos pedag&#243;gicos, este artigo apresenta a an&#225;lise de um conjunto de 65 objetos de aprendizagem produzidos no N&#250;cleo de Apoio &#224; Educa&#231;&#227;o a Dist&#226;ncia (NAPEAD) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), discutindo os achados desta pesquisa e o ponto de vista de alguns dos diferentes atores envolvidos no processo de produ&#231;&#227;o e uso desses OAs