<br><b>Abstract:</b> This study reports the evaluation results of using a learning management system (LMS) in a computer literacy course. The goal of the present study was to explore the usefulness of content delivery and how it helped students in learning computing skills. Using Blackboard as the LMS, 145 undergraduate college students enrolled in a computer literacy course in a large southwestern university responded to an online survey and seven instructors who taught the course were surveyed over email to determine value and usefulness of the features in the environment.Overall, assignments, course documents and gradebook were reported as the most useful features. Immediate feedback on quizzes, accessing the materials at all times, and getting comfortable in use of technology were rated as most helpful areas. Both students and instructors responded positively to the LMS experience and provided evidence that numerous learning outcomes can be enhanced by the presence of such a system. <br><br><b> Keywords: </b> learning management system, Blackboard, computer literacy, blended learning.

This interactive tutorial explores how changes to the incident angle and refractive index differential between two dissimilar media affect the refraction angle of light at the interface.

Great website for writers of all ages. This site was created by teachers with the goal of helping their students better understand groups of words that are often confused for each other in student writings.

This is a GSI workshop powerpoint presentation and exercise in learning to use MERLOT in teaching at the University of Michigan. Although specifically designed for psychology, the instructional material may be supportive to any educational discipline.

Rome Reborn is an international initiative whose gol is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of anicent Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age(ca. 1000 B.C.) to its depopulation in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550). The site currently presents Rome at A.D. 320. The site is a collaboration with IATH at the University of Virginia, the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, the UCLA Experiential Technology Center, the Reverse Engineering Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, the Ausonius Institute of the CNRS and the University of Bordeaux-3, and the University of Caen.

Cancer Control P.L.A.N.E.T (Plan, Link, Act, Network with Evidence-based Tools) is a website with links to "comprehensive cancer control resources for public health professionals." The web site is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Commission on Cancer (CoC).

"This peer-reviewed journal contains articles on the spectrum of actions and approaches needed to reduce the impact of human malignancy".

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From UIPUI’s 2008 Assessment Institute conference and only available until 10/2009. This Keynote by Sharon J. Hamilton gives a good overview of ePortfolios and where they are in terms of adoption and applicability to current trends. These trends include the increased request for assessment and the repercussions of the Spellings report.

Excellent tutorial for PHP and SQL for information professionals working with web interfaces for online databases

Universities should embrace democratic values. Using electronic portfolios, competency-based assessment can enact them. Rather than preset standards, competencies become boundary objects connecting individual student experience to community conversation about what it means to be educated. This article examines this approach in practice at New Century College, George Mason University.

LectureTools allows students to 1) type notes synchronized with the lecture slides; 2) self-assess their confidence in understanding the material being discussed; 3) pose questions for the instructor and/or teaching assistant; 4) view answers to questions (with questioners names removed) as posed by teaching assistant during or after class; 5) pop up the slide, draw on it (cross-platform on Mac or Windows) and save the drawing; 6) respond to instructor questions; 7) view podcasts, if any, that are uploaded by the instructor after class; and 8) print the lecture slides and notes for off-line review

Electronic portfolios have developed as a medium for learning that makes use of the learners’ own reflections on connections among portfolio artifacts. This study used a portfolio-based, mid-program reflection of undergraduate students to elaborate a framework for reflective learning and raise questions about related assessment practices.

From UIPUI’s 2008 Assessment Institute conference and only available until 10/2009. This is a collection of new techniques and approaches in a variety of outcomes assessment areas, including general education and major fields as well as civic engagement, student development, electronic portfolios, first-year experience and faculty development. Several sessions were designed for beginners and others are for the more experienced practitioner.

From UIPUI’s 2008 Assessment Institute conference and only available until 10/2009. Walvoord covers the definition of assessment of student learning; steps, purpose, goals for learning. She has great visuals to show the big picture, the ideal system, and tracing the flow of information, and some case studies.

The need to demonstrate how assessment data might be shared with the public concerned about educational quality in colleges and universities is a vital component to fostering excellence in teaching and learning. This paper reports research that addresses the challenges higher education leadership faces in devising ways to be responsive to federal and state education departments, accrediting agencies, and higher education systems.

Keynote presentation at the eFolio Minnesota 2008 Summit regarding the institutional electronic portfolio initiative for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

This learning resource is a multimedia curriculum kit developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) Patient Safety Program in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). It includes learning modules in presentation and text formats, a 36 page pocket guide, and video vignettes to illustrate key concepts. Each video includes learning objectives. Although the resource was developed for use by healthcare organizations, the components are appropriate for workshops or college classes that address the importance of patient safety, teamwork, and effective communication.

This site presents material on mental illness including diagnostic characteristics, types of the specific mental disorder, and psychotherapy/ pharmacotherapy treatments. Overall it looks to be a good resource for general information on mental illness made in "good faith". Also it appears to be geared to clients/patients looking for support (with some Rx links).

This interactive tutorial provides an overview of medication errors. The stated learning objectives are: <ul> <li> Recognize the differences between acts of commission, acts of omission, and near misses. <li> Identify barriers to improving medication use safety within the system; <li> Describe what is meant by a "culture of blame." <li> List actions nurses can take to reduce medication errors. <li> List ways the system can reduce medication errors. </li> </ul> <p> The learning resource includes a printable handout with references. The content author was