FDA proposes regulation of mobile healthcare apps

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the FDA has introduced a proposal that would "allow it to regulate smartphone and tablet apps that relate to health and medical needs".

This might include apps for smartphones that measure blood pressure, ultrasound apps and handheld cancer detectors.

Is anyone working with students to help educate patients about the use of mobile electronic devices to monitor their health?

Via Gizmodo

Amazon allowing students to "rent" textbooks on Kindle

Amazon has announced that they will start allowing students to rent textbooks on their Kindle for 30 - 360 days for "up to 80% off the list price of the print textbook".


Annotations that the student makes to the textbook will be preserved even after the rental period ends.


I didn't see much in the way of pharmacy-specific titles for rent, but Amazon plans to make more and more titles available over time.


Are we seeing the beginning of the end for paper and ink textbooks?

Educational Research and Facebook Privacy

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article detailing some of the ethical concerns of using data collected from Facebook as part of educational research.


What has been your experience with respect to asking students to provide consent to participate in research related to teaching?

2011 TiPEL SIG Business Meeting

I hope to see a large turnout at the annual business meeting this year. We are specifically looking to increase participation in TiPEL activities. Opportunities for this will be discussed at the meeting. The agenda for the meeting is below.

Call to Order
Approval of Minutes
Report of the Chair
Report of the Secretary
Report of Programming Committee
Report of Nominating Committee
Report of Ad Hoc Committees

Webinar Committee

Unfinished Business

Instructional Technology survey/database

New Business

Webinar Committee for 2011-2012

Topic-specific bloggers for 2011-2012

Closing Remarks
Installation of Officers
New Chair Remarks

Recognition

Committee volunteers

Adjournment

Technology-related Posters and Presentations in San Antonio

Do you have a technology-related poster, presentation, roundtable, etc. at the AACP meeting in San Antonio?


Add the information about it to the comments following this post so that members of the SIG will have a handy list they can refer to when deciding what to do each day.

TiPEL-SIG Program at AACP Meeting in San Antonio

iPads, Twitter, Google Sites, and Next-Gen Distance Learning: Interactive Technologies for Active Student Engagement
Jude A. Higdon, Nichole M. Kulinski, Amy L. Pittenger, Christene M. Jolowsky


In this session, several projects utilizing collaborative tools will be described for experiential, classroom-based, and research applications, including an iPad evaluation, social networking, "next generation" student response technology, web-based collaborative writing tools and a range of distance learning strategies for engaging learners. Program will include active participation and panel discussion.


During this session, learners will:
• Identify ways in which our students found iPads helpful -- and not helpful -- to their learning activities
• Articulate ways in which social tools, in particular Twitter, may be used to help build scholarly community among students
• Learn about and engage with emerging, cloud-based, device-neutral student response systems such as ChimeIn
• Explore the use of web-building sites such as Google Sites as a way for health professional students to demonstrate content mastery
• Describe how collaborative writing with tools such as PB works can enhance learning
• Identify techniques for engaging distance learners

Tuesday, July 12

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Grand Hyatt San Antonio

Lone Star Ballroom, Salon C; Floor 2

Continuing Education credit will be available

Inkling iPad Textbook

I was recently given the opportunity to review a chapter of the upcoming 8th edition of "Pharmacotherapy:  A Pathophysiologic Approach" on the Inkling platform for iPad.   I was quite impressed.


There is a video demonstration of Inkling on the iPad at All Things D.   


What do you think about the idea of students having textbooks on the iPad?   "Wave of the future" or "flash in the pan"?


Gary Theilman, Pharm.D.
University of Mississippi