SBIR Phase I: Improved Learning and Retention of Health Science Concepts Through the Use of a Just-in-Time Teaching, Mobile Device Simulations

SBIR 第一阶段：通过使用即时教学、移动设备模拟来提高健康科学概念的学习和保留

• 批准号: 1315043
• 负责人: Robert Keegan
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: WholeLogic, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1315043&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Improved; Learning; Retention

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is a mobile device healthcare simulation design that engages students in an active learning, pre-class activity. Pre-class assignments are documented to improve student learning but traditional reading meets with poor student compliance. The increasing prevalence of student-owned tablets/smartphones creates a platform to satisfy a demand for engaging, scientifically accurate, mobile simulations distributed as pre-class activities. In Phase I, a tablet/smartphone mobile simulation prototype will be developed to simulate a commercially available, electronic fetal monitor used to teach perinatal monitoring. The Phase I mobile simulation will be derived from previously developed simulation technology documented to improve learning. The Phase I experiment will compare learning outcomes among nursing students using the pre-class mobile simulation with those exposed to traditional reading or no pre-class activity. A randomized, controlled experiment will be conducted in a college of nursing to assess learning. Access to the pre-class mobile simulation is expected to result in improved learning outcomes compared with traditional techniques. The Phase II effort should extend the accessibility and marketability of the concept by developing mobile simulations for allied disciplines and validating that enhanced learning outcomes occur among diverse topics and student populations.The broader/commercial impact of this SBIR Phase I project is the development, production, and marketing of engaging and scientifically accurate, mobile device simulations that are designed to help students in the health sciences learn difficult medical physiology concepts. Pre-class reading assignments and quizzes can improve student learning, free up class time for active learning activities, and enable instructors to customize their presentations according to student need. Unfortunately, poor student compliance with pre-class reading and the increased faculty time needed to review student assignments prior to a scheduled lecture have combined to limit the use and benefits of pre-class learning. The proposed mobile simulation technology delivers a dynamic and engaging, clinically-focused, pre-class activity combined with a learning analytics method that helps to quantify student knowledge. This technology will be marketed as Android, iOS and Windows smartphone/tablet applications. Because the mobile simulation can be easily adapted to any concept in the biosciences, a successful SBIR effort in obstetrical nursing can be scaled-up to a library of applications in a variety of health related bioscience disciplines including physiology courses in colleges and universities, topic specific course content in colleges of nursing, medicine, and respiratory care, and in general undergraduate and high school biosciences courses.

该小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目是一个移动设备医疗保健模拟设计，旨在让学生参与到主动学习的课前活动中。课前作业被记录下来，以改善学生的学习，但传统的阅读遇到了学生较差的遵从性。学生拥有的平板电脑/智能手机的日益普及创造了一个平台，以满足作为课前活动分发的参与性、科学准确性的移动模拟的需求。在第一阶段，将开发平板电脑/智能手机移动模拟原型，以模拟用于教授围产期监测的商用电子胎儿监护仪。第一阶段的移动模拟将从先前开发的模拟技术中衍生出来，以改进学习。第一阶段的实验将比较使用课前移动模拟的护生和那些接触传统阅读或没有课前活动的护生的学习结果。一项随机对照实验将在一所护理学院进行，以评估学习情况。与传统技术相比，接触课前移动模拟预计会带来更好的学习结果。第二阶段的工作应该通过为相关学科开发移动模拟，并验证不同主题和学生群体中出现了增强的学习结果，来扩大概念的可及性和市场性。这个SBIR第一阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响是开发、生产和营销具有吸引力和科学准确性的移动设备模拟，旨在帮助健康科学领域的学生学习困难的医疗生理学概念。课前阅读作业和小测验可以改善学生的学习，腾出课堂时间进行积极的学习活动，并使教师能够根据学生的需要定制他们的演示文稿。不幸的是，学生对课前阅读的遵从性差，以及教师在预定的讲座前审查学生作业所需的时间增加，这些因素共同限制了课前学习的使用和好处。建议的移动模拟技术提供了动态、引人入胜、以临床为重点的课前活动，并结合了帮助量化学生知识的学习分析方法。这项技术将以Android、iOS和Windows智能手机/平板电脑应用程序的形式上市。由于移动模拟可以很容易地适应生物科学中的任何概念，因此在产科护理方面成功的SBIR努力可以扩大到各种与健康相关的生物科学学科的应用程序库，包括大学的生理学课程，护理学院、医学和呼吸护理学院的特定主题课程内容，以及一般的本科和高中生物科学课程。