scholarly journals From playing to designing: Enhancing educational experiences with location-based mobile learning games

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Edmonds ◽  
Simon Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Learning Games ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
Field Excursion ◽  
Satisfaction Rates ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents research into the benefits and implementation strategies of integrating location-based mobile learning games in higher education courses to enhance educational experiences. Two approaches were studied: learning by playing, and learning by designing. In the first, games were developed for undergraduate courses in four discipline areas, introduced during lectures, and played by students during a tutorial, as a self-guided activity or field excursion. In the second, students designed and developed their own prototype games as an educational activity to explore pedagogical strategies in personalised learning. Observations were made as students played and designed games. Online surveys, focus groups, and game analytics were used to help understand player behaviour and discover satisfaction rates, engagement, and the impact on learning outcomes. Results indicate that both the playing and self-designing of location-based mobile learning games can deliver active, engaging, and authentic educational experiences for students, enhancing opportunities to interact with locations, mobile content, and with each other. The impact of design, implementation strategy, and support on a student’s motivation for, and engagement with, the learning is discussed, along with the designing of games to offer an opportunity for students to personalise their learning and develop new ICT skills.

Dissent and Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Burden
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dissenting Academies

Much eighteenth-century Dissenting educational activity was built on an older tradition of Puritan endeavour. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the godly had seen education as an important tool in spreading their ideas but, in the aftermath of the Restoration, had found themselves increasingly excluded from universities and schools. Consequently, Dissenters began to develop their own higher educational institutions (in the shape of Dissenting academies) and also began to set up their own schools. While the enforcement of some of the legal restrictions that made it difficult for Dissenting institutions diminished across the eighteenth century, the restrictions did not disappear entirely. While there has been considerable focus on Dissenting academies and their contribution to debates about doctrinal orthodoxy, the impact of Dissenting schools was also considerable.

scholarly journals Technology Entrepreneurship and the Performance of Enterprises in the Conditions of Covid-19 Pandemic: The Fuzzy Set Analysis of Waste to Energy Enterprises in Poland

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3891
Author(s):  
Piotr Kordel ◽  
Radosław Wolniak
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Technology Entrepreneurship ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Impact

This article’s aim is to explain the impact of technology entrepreneurship phenomenon on waste management enterprise performance in the conditions of COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of technology entrepreneurship according to the configuration approach and the category of high-performance organization are the theoretical bases of empirical investigation. For the implementation of empirical research, Fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (FsQCA) was adopted. The research sample included a group of producers of Refused Derived Fuel (RDF) as a central part of the waste to energy industry located in Poland. The research results showed that the waste to energy sector is highly immune to pandemic threats. While during COVID-19, the basic economic parameters (i.e., sales, profitability and employment) of the entire industry in Poland clearly decreased, the same parameters in the case of the waste to energy industry remained at the same level. The research results allow the formulation of two high-performance models of technology entrepreneurship in the waste to energy industry under COVID-19 conditions. The first model is based on traditional technologies and hierarchical organizational structures, and the second is using innovative technologies and flexible structures. Both technology entrepreneurship models are determined by their emergence as complementary to implementation strategies and the opportunity-oriented allocation of resources within business model portfolios.

scholarly journals Challenges in Treating Tardive Dyskinesia: Assessing the Impact of Virtual Medical Education

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-165
Author(s):  
Amanda Glazar ◽  
Cecilia Peterson ◽  
Michael Lemon ◽  
Chirag Shah ◽  
Prakash Masand
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Tardive Dyskinesia ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Respiratory Muscles ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Activity Participation ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Practice Performance ◽  
New Treatments ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIntroductionTardive Dyskinesia (TD) refers to abnormal, involuntary, choreoathetoid movements of the tongue, lips, face, trunk, and extremities and is associated with long-term exposure to dopamine-blocking agents, such as antipsychotic medications. Once established, these movements usually persist. The movements are disfiguring and can bring unwanted attention to affected individuals. When severe, especially if the respiratory muscles are affected, the movements can be disabling, limit activity, and reduce quality of life. The prevalence is 7.2% in individuals on newer antipsychotics who have never been exposed to older neuroleptics. Until recently, there were no effective treatments for TD. In recent years, many new treatments have been investigated for the treatment of TD, including valbenazine, deutetrabenazine, and branched chain amino acids. Valbenazine first, followed by deutetrabenazine are FDA approved to treat TD. A virtual broadcast was developed to assess the ability of continuing medical education (CME) to improve awareness of the recognition and treatment of TD among psychiatrists.MethodsThe virtual broadcast (May 9, 2020) consisted of a two-hour, live-streamed discussion between two expert faculty. Impact of the educational activity was assessed by comparing psychiatrists’ responses to four identical questions presented before and directly after activity participation. A follow-up survey was sent to all participants six-weeks post-activity to measure performance in practice changes. A chi-square test was used to identify significant differences between pre- and post-assessment responses. Cohen’s d was used to calculate the effect size of the virtual broadcast.ResultsActivity participation resulted in a noticeable educational effect among psychiatrists (n=621; d=6.12, P<.001). The following areas showed significant (P<0.05) pre- vs post-educational improvements: recognition of movements in patients with TD, rate of TD in SGA exposed patients, treatment options for TD (on and off-label), and treatment of TD using VMAT inhibitors. Additionally, 54% of psychiatrists reported a change in practice performance as a result of the education received in the activity, including utilization of a standard scale to evaluate movement disorders and educate patients and family members about potential for TD, how to recognize symptoms, and when to treat.ConclusionsThe results indicated that a CME-certified two-hour virtual broadcast was effective at improving knowledge among psychiatrists for the recognition and treatment of TD. This knowledge also resulted in positive changes in practice performance post-activity. Future education should continue to address best practices in the diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with TD, as there remains an increased need for tailored CME among psychiatrists.FundingNeurocrine Biosciences, Inc.

scholarly journals Interoperability frameworks linking mHealth applications to electronic record systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kagiso Ndlovu ◽  
Maurice Mars ◽  
Richard E. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Electronic Record ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background mHealth presents innovative approaches to enhance primary healthcare delivery in developing countries like Botswana. The impact of mHealth solutions can be improved if they are interoperable with eRecord systems such as electronic health records, electronic medical records and patient health records. eHealth interoperability frameworks exist but their availability and utility for linking mHealth solutions to eRecords in developing world settings like Botswana is unknown. The recently adopted eHealth Strategy for Botswana recognises interoperability as an issue and mHealth as a potential solution for some healthcare needs, but does not address linking the two. Aim This study reviewed published reviews of eHealth interoperability frameworks for linking mHealth solutions with eRecords, and assessed their relevance to informing interoperability efforts with respect to Botswana’s eHealth Strategy. Methods A structured literature review and analysis of published reviews of eHealth interoperability frameworks was performed to determine if any are relevant to linking mHealth with eRecords. The Botswanan eHealth Strategy was reviewed. Results Four articles presented and reviewed eHealth interoperability frameworks that support linking of mHealth interventions to eRecords and associated implementation strategies. While the frameworks were developed for specific circumstances and therefore were based upon varying assumptions and perspectives, they entailed aspects that are relevant and could be drawn upon when developing an mHealth interoperability framework for Botswana. Common emerging themes of infrastructure, interoperability standards, data security and usability were identified and discussed; all of which are important in the developing world context such as in Botswana. The Botswana eHealth Strategy recognises interoperability, mHealth, and eRecords as distinct issues, but not linking of mHealth solutions with eRecords. Conclusions Delivery of healthcare is shifting from hospital-based to patient-centered primary healthcare and community-based settings, using mHealth interventions. The impact of mHealth solutions can be improved if data generated from them are converted into digital information ready for transmission and incorporation into eRecord systems. The Botswana eHealth Strategy stresses the need to have interoperable eRecords, but mHealth solutions must not be left out. Literature insight about mHealth interoperability with eRecords can inform implementation strategies for Botswana and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Impact of Implementation Strategies in Healthcare: A Research Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron J. Powell ◽  
Maria E. Fernandez ◽  
Nathaniel J. Williams ◽  
Gregory A. Aarons ◽  
Rinad S. Beidas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
The Impact

Post-Slavery? Post-Segregation? Post-Racial? A History of the Impact of Slavery, Segregation, and Racism on the Education of African Americans

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (14) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Span
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This chapter details how slavery, segregation, and racism impacted the educational experiences of African Americans from the colonial era to the present. It offers a historical overview of the African American educational experience and uses archival data and secondary source analysis to illustrate that America has yet to be a truly post-slavery and post-segregation society, let alone a post-racial society.

Opportunities and challenges for telemedicine oncology: Perspectives from the frontline (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kea Turner ◽  
Margarita Bobonis Babilonia ◽  
Cristina Naso ◽  
Oliver Nguyen ◽  
Brian D. Gonzalez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Quality Costs ◽  
Workflow Integration ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND Rapid implementation of telemedicine for cancer care during COVID-19 required innovative and adaptive solutions among healthcare workers. OBJECTIVE The objective of this qualitative study was to explore healthcare workers’ experiences with telemedicine implementation during COVID-19. METHODS We conducted semi-structured interviews with 40 oncology healthcare workers who implemented telemedicine during COVID-19. The interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed for themes using Dedoose software (Version 4.12). RESULTS Approximately half of participants were physicians (55%) and one quarter of participants were APPs (25%). Other participants included social workers (n=3), psychologists (n=2), dieticians (n=2), and a pharmacist. Five key themes were identified: 1) establishing and maintaining patient-provider relationships, 2) coordinating care with other providers and informal caregivers, 3) adapting in-person assessments for telemedicine, 4) developing workflows and allocating resources, and 5) future recommendations. Participants described innovative strategies for implementing telemedicine, such as coordinating inter-disciplinary visits with multiple providers. Healthcare workers discussed key challenges, such as workflow integration, lack of physical exam and biometric data, and overcoming the digital divide. Participants recommended policy advocacy to support telemedicine (e.g., medical licensure policies) and monitoring how telemedicine affects patient outcomes and healthcare delivery. CONCLUSIONS To support the growth of telemedicine, implementation strategies are needed to ensure providers and patients have the tools necessary to effectively engage in telemedicine. At the same time, cancer care organizations will need to engage in advocacy to ensure policies are supportive of oncology telemedicine and develop systems to monitor the impact of telemedicine on patient outcomes, healthcare quality, costs, and equity. CLINICALTRIAL N/A

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