EducationalInformatics.org(tm) : A laboratory for the study of educational informatics
Laboratory Goal
To improve patients' care, outcomes and lives;
By changing physician's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors;
Through the creation and evaluation of tools, techniques, and procedures that shift learning from the classroom to the point-of-care and the point-of-presence.

Laboratory Description
Educational informatics is the application of computers to education.

We wish to gain a deeper understanding of learning and to develop new computational tools to think with - that is new computational tools that help people learn new things in new ways.

Since 1989 we have pioneered the development in medicine of digital textbooks, digital libraries, institutional repositories and communities of practice. Our work spans the pre-Web, browseable Web, searchable Web, and post-Web. We are internationally recognized as experts in the design, creation, curation, operation and evaluation of digital libraries and communities of practice.

Our current research is focused on empowering physicians through learning tools that enhance learning at the point-of-care and documenting and preserving this learning to create a personalized learning environment / knowledge management / e-memory system for every physician. This research is deeply interwoven within the fabric of the discipline of Web Science.

Our current research encompasses 3 interrelated components:

What distinguishes our current research from others is our commitment to digital libraries, given our long history of digital library research.

Laboratory Results
Through these tools, we have practiced a form of intellectual philanthropy.

The Internet serves an amplifier for us in that it allows the efforts of a few to have a global impact.

Our learning tools currently help 4 million learners each year.

For the subjects of general pediatrics, pediatric education, pediatric imaging, pediatric radiology, radiology apps, radiology ebooks and radiology education as well as anatomy atlas and anatomy atlases - our digital libraries have the highest impact factors on the Internet and are therefore amongst the top 10 authoritative Web sites on these subjects.

Our work has been funded by a broad spectrum of organizations including the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Library of Medicine, Radiological Society of North America, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Apple Computer, and ourselves.

Laboratory Principals

Learning tools we have created, organized chronologically Learning tools we have created, organized by funding agency Learning tools mirrored around the world Awards we have won
EducationalInformatics.org is curated by Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D. and Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D.

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Last Revised: January 1, 2024
URL: http://www.educationalinformatics.org/