Providing high-quality feedback is essential for improving preservice teacher performance. Rather than post-lesson feedback, immediate performance feedback while teaching is considered effective. This article reports on developing and piloting a standardised tool for synchronous feedback. Eight teacher educators from a Dutch higher education institution were trained to use the tool (based on accepted models of teacher roles, observation criteria and feedback levels) with pre-recorded lessons. Interobserver reliability was good for teacher roles and sufficient for feedback levels. Positive evaluations of the tool and educators’ interest in its application, warrant further research into scalability and effectiveness of synchronous feedback delivery.
New Virtual Care Centers (VCCs) within hospitals utilize information technology to remotely monitor and support patients with chronic diseases living at home. Nurses play a crucial role by providing remote coaching and guidance to help patients manage their conditions. Currently, there is a growing understanding regarding the evolving roles and responsibilities of nurses in VCCs, however studies have yet to establish connections with educational frameworks, which poses a challenge for nursing education programs to prepare students for this emerging professional role effectively. Our study aimed to provide insights into the evolving roles, tasks, and responsibilities of nurses providing remote care as per the CanMEDS framework. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 15 interviews. Nursing work within VCCs is represented by the seven CanMEDS roles. Most tasks align with the roles of Leader and Collaborator, while Quality Promotor has the fewest. Our study maps the responsibilities and tasks of VCCs' care delivery to the core roles of nurses.
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Among runners, there is a high drop-out rate due to injuries and loss of motivation. These runners often lack personalized guidance and support. While there is much potential for sports apps to act as (e-)coaches to help these runners to avoid injuries, set goals, and maintain good intentions, most available running apps primarily focus on persuasive design features like monitoring, they offer few or no features that support personalized guidance (e.g., personalized training schemes). Therefore, we give a detailed description of the working mechanism of Inspirun e-Coach app and on how this app uses a personalized coaching approach with automatic adaptation of training schemes based on biofeedback and GPS-data. We also share insights into how end-users experience this working mechanism. The primary conclusion of this study is that the working mechanism (if provided with accurate data) automatically adapts training sessions to the runners’ physical workload and stimulates runners’ goal perception, motivation, and experienced personalization. With this mechanism, we attempted to make optimal use of the potential of wearable technology to support the large group of novice or less experienced runners and that by providing insight in our working mechanisms, it can be applied in other technologies, wearables, and types of sports.
