Abstract
The Vanderbilt–Northwestern–Texas–Harvard/MIT Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies is the only such National Science Foundation sponsored Center specifically focused on educational technologies. The Center teams bioengineering, learning science and learning technology specialists in universities and industry to determine what bioengineers should learn, how it should be conveyed, and how learning should be assessed. Potential industrial and practice partners include companies and national laboratories that practise bioengineering, those that provide enabling technologies for construction of learning modules and assembly into courseware, and major publishers and others who will assist in courseware dissemination. Modular design should make Center courseware useful in continuing as well as curricular education. Continuing education marketing strategies include recruiting companies to provide employee, client, customer, and patient groups as test-beds and customers for courseware, and advertising for continuing education through professional societies and advocacy groups.
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