Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH)
Engineering Research Center for Educational Technologies 

The challenge of educating bioengineers given the ongoing explosion of knowledge in biology and medicine requires fresh approaches. The VaNTH Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies works to integrate learning science, learning technologies, and bioengineering expertise to develop effective educational materials to educate bioengineers.

VaNTH conducts research to better understand how bioengineering students learn and the new methods that can help them learn more efficiently and effectively. The center also develops educational materials based on its findings that are learner centered, knowledge centered, and assessment centered.

The developed materials are disseminated to undergraduate and graduate programs in bioengineering, to middle and high schools, and to the industrial and practitioner communities through continuing education.

VaNTH is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Director: Thomas R. Harris,
Orrin H. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering               [next page]