Roles for Learning Sciences and Learning Technologies in Biomedical Engineering Education: A Review of Recent Advances

Abstract

Education in biomedical engineering offers a number of challenges to all constituents of the educational process-faculty, students, and employers of graduates. Although biomedical engineering educational systems have been under development for 40 years, interest in and the pace of development of these programs has accelerated in recent years. New advances in the learning sciences have provided a framework for the reexamination of instructional paradigms in biomedical engineering. This work shows that learning environments should be learner centered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered. In addition, learning technologies offer the potential to achieve this environment with efficiency. Biomedical engineering educators are in a position to design and implement new learning systems that can take advantage of advances in learning science, learning technology, and reform in engineering education.

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“…It requires students who adapt easily to the new information and who recognize the potential of its application in the human health [11].…”

“…The biomedical engineering education offers a range of challenges to all the component parts of the educational process: faculty, students, employers and graduates [11]. The education technologies are the potential to achieve with efficiency didactic environments focused on student, on knowledge and in evaluation [11].…”

“…The education technologies are the potential to achieve with efficiency didactic environments focused on student, on knowledge and in evaluation [11]. Sometimes the cost of the equipment hinders the integration of acquisition systems of physiological signals in university laboratories [12].…”

“…The development of new learning technologies increases the pedagogical process effectiveness [11]. Several virtual and remote laboratories have been proposed in scientific and technical educational areas [14].…”

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