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 After much anticipation, the Vanderbilt iTunes U Building Block, version 2.0.7, is finally ready. You can download the Building Block from Vanderbilt. This building block was developed by our group as an improvement of the previous version. The new features are: Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! The short list: City University of New York, University of Cincinnati, and Virginia's Community Colleges, not to mention Blackboard and Apple's iTunes U team. Stories are much easier to tell in an effective way with keeping the audience audiovisually excited. There are questions and thoughts about every research project that can be answered easier through a story incorporating the subject of the research into a imaginary world with realistic characters and their motivations. Add a little bit of drama to emphasize values, errors, needs or consequences and you will see how we ended up producing a movie - not for the first time - to make complex and abstract factors more naturally sensible. In the "A developing situation" we can see how a nurse in an imaginary hospital turns into a criminal stealing patient data, and how state of the art, trustworthy clinical information systems can guard privacy and help in detecting such cyber security incidents. Though the story, the place and the characters are fictional, the problems and the solutions being developed in our institute and featured in this movie are quite real. To find out more about this TRUST research area visit the Electronic Medical Record project page on the TAO Portal.
This film was made for research and educational purposes with the contribution of ISIS researchers and friends who put so much effort in it sometimes from their valuable private time. Special thanks to: Original idea by Janos Sztipanovits, Akos Ledeczi, Bradley Malin, Janos Mathe story line, camera, movie and music production by Laszlo Juracz with much help from Julie Johnson writing the final script. Special thanks to Larry Howard for his support and his private equipment he let us use. Parts of this movie were filmed at the Vanderbilt University though there is no connection between the actual infrastructure of Vanderbilt University and the one illustrated in the film.  We gave new look and feel to one of the most important resource center of learning materials built and published with our technologies. This dissemination vehicle - the VaNTH Portal - now provides the same content and services for biomedical engineering students and teachers through a one-column-based user interface. The fine tuned, eye catcher logo introduces a progressive color theme and gives a stimulating 3D effect together with the background visual. 
A new version of our authoring technology for adaptive learning is now available. CAPE 2.7 focuses on support for larger-scale design families and courseware product lines. CAPE has long supported instructional design patterns as a means of capturing commonalities among sets of courseware designs. These patterns are represented in CAPE as abstract designs, or models, that can be instanced in various ways. At the same time, CAPE's data modeling facility, Condition Sets, and adaptive content features have been used to create designs that are data-driven, providing an alternative abstraction facility. The power of using these capabilities in concert has been demonstrated by a web-based authoring system for a class of engineering homework problems that provide students with adaptive remediation. CAPE 2.7 extends these capabilities with new features that support more aggressive design reuse strategies. An example of such a strategy is the ACT Online courseware product line. This training system, sponsored by the U.S Federal Emergency Management Agency, provides 9 courses on cyber-terrorism incorporating a total of 45-50 modules that share a common instructional design macro-structure called STAR Legacy. The TRUST Academy Online (TAO) Portal supports online community outreach for the NSF TRUST Science and Technology Center. TAO reuses the dissemination portal framework that we originally developed for the NSF VaNTH Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies. Like the VaNTH Portal, TAO provides "courseware profiles" that bundle sets of learning materials with descriptions, metadata, and scaffolding resources. For TAO, we have added a new type of content object, called "project profiles," that tell the stories of TRUST research projects and provide access to resources produced by the projects such as papers, presentations, and posters. Project designers Laszlo Juracz and Gabor Pap have recently refined this Plone-based framework to provide a fresh "look and feel" featuring visual browsers for content objects along with other usability, content, and interoperability enhancements. This further evolution of our dissemination technology reflects a continuing commitment to provide educators and other users access to materials and resources produced by our research partners through the World Wide Web. Document Actions |