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Social Virtual Reality and Education: But why is everything so hard to do?!

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

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 }

APHA 2011 Presentations: SBIRT in Action, Suicide Case Studies, Much More…

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

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 }

AEI Partner in $8.3M Effort to Improve Substance Use Treatment Throughout Indiana

Monday, September 12th, 2011

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 }

AEI @ APHA 2010: Presentations include Sex, Drugs, Suicide, and Social Virtual Reality

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

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 }

AEI Awarded $900K NIH Challenge Grant to Improve Diabetes Care

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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 }