Domain experts and Educational Research at VaNTH have developed various methods for designing and researching education materials based on the How People Learn Framework. Here are several publications the group has written to document their methods and report on various instructional techniques they've used to improve student learning and the assessment of that learning.
Designing Learning Technologies into Instruction
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Enriching Students' Laboratory Experience: Using Software and Socratic Methods to Foster Reflective Thought in an Engineering Laboratory
Weusijana, Riesbeck, and Walsh (2002) - This paper describes a program that uses Socratic questioning, called Socratic Ask (SASK) to improve students' performance and learning of dialysis in an undergraduate biomedical engineering lab.
Development and Implementation of an Interactive Instructional Module of Light Distribution in Tissue
Jansen, Mahadevan-Jansen, Lin, Brophy, and Mackanos (2001) - Describes the design of learning activities around a Monte Carlo simulation to help students better understand the qualities of probabilistic modeling to adequately predict the interaction of light energy with tissue.
