Exploring How Agents-based Modeling and Culture Affects Children’s Understanding of Complex Systems

Julie Youm; John Black

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3096–3101

It is known that the key to understanding complex systems is to decompose it into smaller, manageable chunks and that the method of decomposition has an effect on the understanding of the system. This study seeks to explore the potential of an...

Object-Oriented Thinking for Mental Model Development

Julie Youm; John Black

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3377–3382

Mental models have been researched and explored as a construct for understanding how people think since Kenneth Craik first suggested that the mind constructs "small-scale models" of reality to reason and anticipate events (Craik, 1943). However,...

The Potential for an Object-Oriented Model of Learning

Julie Youm; John Black

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1583–1586

This study explores the potential for applying Object-oriented programming characteristics as constructivist aids to everyday cognition and learning beyond programming tasks. The theoretical approach in this study was to consider the characteristics ...

Topics: Learning Objects, Curriculum, Programming

MetaTool: An open authoring system for Instructional Design of Educational Technology

Danielle Kaplan; Julie Youm; David Shaenfield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 75–78

This paper describes our design for a meta-authoring tool capable of generating domain specific learning activity across a variety of instructional designs. MetaTool will support collaborative authoring of instructional technology, and facilitate...

Topics: Instructional Design

Mobile Technologies to Support the Anatomy Lab: An Introduction of the iPad

Julie Youm; Warren Wiechmann; Mary Frances Ypma-Wong; Ralph Clayman; Gerald Maguire; Harry Haigler; Shahram Lotfipour

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1780–1788

This paper explores the Apple iPad as a potential resource in the anatomy lab. The frequency of web-based computer aided instruction as a supplement to dissections has been shown to have significant correlations with exam grades (McNulty et al.,...

Launching an iPad Program: Lessons Learned from the iMedEd Initative, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine

Julie Youm; Warren Wiechmann; Mary Frances Ypma-Wong; Ralph Clayman; Gerald Maguire; Harry Haigler; Shahram Lotfipour

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1775–1779

This paper presents the challenges during the first year of an iPad program at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. The iPad program is a part of the iMedEd Initiative to transform the traditional medical school curriculum into...