Dr. Anthony Levinson, MD, FRCPC, is currently an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, holds the John R. Evans Chair in Health Sciences Educational Research and Instructional Development, and is Director of e-Learning Innovation for the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

Dr. Levinson currently holds research funding and grants from several groups for the development and evaluation of e-Learning. His primary areas of expertise include technology-enabled knowledge translation and he is studying how best to capitalize on multi-media and new technologies to enhance health sciences education. Current areas of interest include knowledge management, information architectures, and instructional design and development, as well as rigorous methodologies for studying the efficacy and effectiveness of instructional interventions.

 

Articles by Anthony Levinson, MD, FRCPC

The XML e-Learning Revolution: Is Your Production Model Holding You Back?

(8/28/06)
E-Learning development since 1997 has mostly been an HTML-based process. However, this works against easy re-use of content and single-source authoring for presentation in multiple formats. The alternative is the XML-based production model, which has suffered from a lack of familiar tools and from a lack of support from organizations in spite of its inherent advantages.