December 8th, 2011 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
AEI researchers Goldsworthy and Honebein have an article recently accepted for publication in Educational Technology for 2010. They stipulate the virtual worlds aren’t really good for much, but that perhaps the one unique quality about them that has educational benefit is that social virtual worlds are, well, social, and that learning projects that have social objectives might just benefit from the social aspects of virtual worlds. They’d allow, among other things, people to practice social skills and yet not be physically co-present…. This article is the story of our experiences….
But why is everything so hard to do?
exploring learning and the COMPLEXITY factor IN social virtual reality
Virtual classrooms and virtual { read more }
Tags: AEI News Release, Article, healthcare providers, Medical Training, Research, SBIRT, social virtual reality
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December 7th, 2011 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
Dr. Goldsworthy was a busy researcher at the latest American Public Health Association Conference, the end of October, in Washington, DC. Topics ranged from structured methods of video case development to understanding substance use intervention in faith organizations; from using a web-based dashboard for diabetes management to facilitating patient delivered partner therapy through a toolkit of clinic resources. Each presentation and a summary is available online. { read more }
Tags: AEI News Release, APHA, Conferences, DiabetesAgent, Faith&Suicide, PartnerCare, SBIRT
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September 12th, 2011 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
Academic Edge, Inc. will provide design and development services on a large scale effort to identify substance misuse issues earlier and to address them more effectively. Richard Goldsworthy, PhD, Director, Research and Development for AEI, will serve as the efforts Director of Implementation and Dissemination. AEI will assist the project by helping guide protocol development, develop training and implementation materials, capture and document early CHC adoption experiences, and gather materials to assist other organization with initial adoption and ongoing implementation. AEI will also rollout online and social media support in the form of a website, facebook, and twitter presence (indianasbirt.org, facebook.com/indianaSBIRT, and @indianaSBIRT, respectively). For more information, please visit the { read more }
Tags: AEI News Release, Consulting, Design, Development, Drugs and Alcohol, Indiana, SBIRT
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December 7th, 2010 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
Members of the AEI team presented on several of our projects at the 2010 National Convention of the American Public Health Association, Denver, CO. From a full session on Expedited Partner Treatment, aka PartnerCare, to understanding how faith leaders address suicide in their organizations, through understanding prescription medication misuse, to examining how social virtual reality may be used to support SBIRT training, the presentations range across many fields and come at these different health problems from a variety of perspectives: theoretical frameworks, qualitative research, descriptive research, all with a focus on understanding and changing behavior. We have more information and the presentations themselves available on the site. { read more }
Tags: AEI News Release, APHA, Conference, EPT, Faith&Suicide, PartnerCare, prescription medication sharing, SBIRT
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September 1st, 2010 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
Academic Edge, Inc., a 15 year old Bloomington-based educational research and development company, has been awarded a 1 year/$900K grant to explore ways to improve diabetes care. Funded by the National Library of Medicine, a part of the Niational Institutes of Health, the effort is a joint project between AEI and Indiana University School of Medicine’s Diabetes Translational Research Center.
There are over 24 million individuals affected by diabetes in the United States. However, optimal diabetes care is often not achieved in the real world. A significant barrier to such care is limited “face time”—the amount of time available for patients to interact with their healthcare providers during any particular office visit. Put simply, healthcare providers often do not have time to support the patient, and even when a doctor { read more }
Tags: AEI News Release, dashboard, diabetes, DiabetesAgent, NIH, patient support, social virtual reality, web-based
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December 20th, 2009 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
On the strength of our award-winning FASD series of videos and web-sites, AEI was selected to develop a series of video-case examples of clinician’s using motivational interviewing (MI) to address alcohol use with prenatal patients. Reducing, or better yet, eliminating alcohol use during pregnancy reduces a leading risk factor for cognitive and developmental disability. The CHOICES Project has long been a recognized innovation in this area. The video case studies serve to augment the CHOICES curriculum by providing real-world examples of MI in action.
In our AEIs previously release, critically acclaimed Understanding FASD DVD series, we explain Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders { read more }
Tags: Case-based Education, Development, FASD, MI, Motivational Interviewing, training, Video
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November 16th, 2009 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded AEI a grant to conduct large-scale, multiyear development of web-based sexuality education materials. This is not your father’s sex ed! Visit www.wstdtv.com for more information. { read more }
Tags: Education, HIV, Multimedia, Schools, Sex, STD
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November 16th, 2009 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
AEI has engaged in a collaboration with researchers at Indiana University to investigate the effects of messaging “sidedness.” How does presenting a “balanced” message, one that emphasizes negative aspects of participation in addition to positive ones, affect willingness to participate AND participant understanding. Simple graphics, clear messaging: sure you have to have those! But, what’s the effect of telling someone about incorrect beliefs, rather than just the facts?
You have a 50% chance of being in the experimental group.
VERSUS
You know, many people believe they have a greater than 50% chance of receiving the experimental vaccine, but, its true, you only have a 50% chance of being in the experimental group.
The first is simpler; the second directly { read more }
Tags: HIV, Pamphlets, Print Materials, Researchers, Trials
Posted in Healthcare Consumers, Research
November 16th, 2009 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
Are your instructional activities old, tired, and, well, pretty lame? You can do something about it! Perturb yourself through an instructional design mashup (IDM). AEI researchers Peter Honebein and Richard Goldsworthy recently published an article about just how to do so in the instructional development journal Educational Technology. { read more }
Tags: Design, Mashups, Multimedia, Publications, Stories
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November 16th, 2009 by Richard C. Goldsworthy
Psst, wanna take some extra drugs home to your partner? That’s the premise behind an increasingly common healthcare practice supported by the CDC. In patient-delivered partner therapy, health care providers offer extra prescription medicine to patients so that the patients can take some home to treat their sexual partners. The patient is cured; the partner is cured. Its a win-win situation, but what should the package look like that you take home to your partner and what should it say?
That’s the goal of an ongoing project to develop packaging and educational materials to support PDPT among providers, patients, and partners.
In preliminary efforts, AEI formatively developed and evaluated an integrated packaging system. As reported in a recent edition of the Journal of Sexually Transmitted Infections, the { read more }
Tags: EPS, materials development, packaging, PDPT, Publications, research studies, STD, STI
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