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Uploading and Sharing VPs over the Web with mEducator 2.0/3.0 Technologies; Hands-on Session

Introduction of the Presentation by Alavaro Salva Lezaun and Francisco Jose Grau Castilla

Uploading and Sharing VPs over the Web with mEducator 2.0/3.0 Technologies; Hands-on Session

Introduction of the Presentation by Alavaro Salva Lezaun and Francisco Jose Grau Castilla

Uploading and Sharing VPs over the Web with mEducator 2.0/3.0 Technologies; Hands-on Session

Introduction of the Presentation by Alavaro Salva Lezaun and Francisco Jose Grau Castilla

Comments on "Overview of e-Learning in Medical Education

After the opening welcoming remarks from  Panos Bamidis, Prof Vassilis Tarlatzis, and Professor Pappas, the keynote was given by Terry Poulton. In his keynote Terry Poulton provided an ”overview of e-learning in Medical Education”. He reviewed e-learning definitions, identifing information and communications as key to most definitions. In the body of his talk, Terry reviewed e-learning tools, such as mobile learning, web2.0 (social nets; forums, wikis, blogs; repositories, ...), virtual patients and virtual worlds.

Comments on Scenario Based Learning and Virtual Patients

Terry Poulton’s keynote led seamlessly into the first session, which was about the use of scenario-based learning and VPs in particular in medical education. Collectively the session components had a very clear focus, providing a coherent and logical progression from theory to practice. Two presentations, respectively from Terry Poulton and Nabil Zary, provided the preliminary overview and contextualisation of the concept of VPs.

Comments on Build your own VP

The hands-on workshop had preliminaries from Ella Iskrenko , who described her practical experiences with using VP for medical  education, and Eleni  Dafli, who introduced software tools (VUE and Openlabrynth) for designing and creating a VP scenario with branching pathways. Participants then used those tools to create a VP scenario with a branching pathway.

Repurposing Scenarios for Serious Games - Hands on!

Introduction:
Prof. Pascal M. Staccini provided the audience with a definition of Serious Games at the onset of his presentation and he emphasized the synonymous terms for serious medical gaming for the audience. Prof. Staccini clearly identified the goals of his presentation and his presentation facilitators. He explained his presentation is divided into three parts. This introduction was clear and succinct.
Procedural Aspect:

How to use patient data? Opportunities and challenges: the ECG-flash case

Introduction:

Dr. Timo Kuusi, Director, Research and Development unit of Medical Education, University of Helsinki, Finland, provided the audience with an introduction to his presentation that included the problems associated with educating medical students. Simulated and virtual patients provide the learner the ability to overcome some of the obstacles associated with medical education (e.g. patient refusal) and gaming is another innovative resource.

Procedural:

Creating, Searching for, & Repurposing Medical Content over the Semantic Web: Hands-on mEducator 3.0 technologies

Introduction:

Stathis Konstantinidis, BSc, MSc clearly explained the aim of the presentation and provided an overview of Melina+. Clean and clear PowerPoint slides allowed the audience to see how Melina + is a part of a larger content. Melina+ contains a variety of medical educational resources.

Procedural:

Open Educational Repositories, Intellectual Property Rights, Creative Commons and Non-Commercial Web Licenses - Consent Commons – Ask the Expert!

Suzanne Hardy, Senior Advisor, Faculty of Medical Sciences Newcastle University, UK, elegantly presented her interests and passion about copyright, consent and policy tools to facilitate the sharing of teaching resources that include patients’ recordings. We do not always provide consent in teaching as we do in conducting research. We are all PIRATES! A background of educational costs in the UK was provided. The OER definition was provided as well as the publication information by Hylen, J. (2007).

Comments on the Web-Trace hands-on session

The session: This session described and provided hands-on experience of Web-Trace.   Daniela explained that the motivation for Web-Trace were the problems associated with cephalometric tracing. These problems were addressed by putting images and cases on-line, by involving students through online tracing, and by providing graphical feedback. This solution was then generalised in Web-Trace, to create a learning tool to cover other medical areas where tracing is involved.

Comments on the MorMed session

The session: This session, presented initially by Iraklis, provided a description, demonstration scenarios  and hands-on experience of MorMed. MorMed is a system which tries to overcome language barriers between individuals within a thematic community, initially, communities of individuals with specific  rare diseases. Motivations were, information for such thematic communities can be hard to find, language sometimes being a barrier, and in particular specialised information is often not easy to find. Rare disease information is such a case.

Comments on Wiki derivatives session

The session: This session covered Wikipedia and other Wiki derivatives within the context of medical education.

Comments on theTEL Dictionary and general comments on the School

The session: In this final session of the Spring School, Nicolas Balacheff  presented the TEL Dictionary initiative. Nicolas elaborated the challenges TEL addressed and outlined the steps it has now taken.  In the first step,  key words were solicited from appropriate experts for the TEL open archive. In the second step the keywords were sorted and managed.