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Jo Dawes and I have just done a joint presentation at the Herts Blending Learning conference chronicling the development and implementation of the herbal medicine and physiotherapy virtual patients in the Polyclinic on Health & Bioscience’s SL island UEL HABitat.
The response was encouraging, not least the expressions of interest in collaboration from as far afield as [...]
We have been exploring two different platforms for virtual lab experiments, namely Second Life and Flash.
Flash seems to be winning out as the preferred option for students but I won’t pre-empt the results of the detailed study currently being carried out by Dr Stephanie Henderson-Begg and Paula Booth. To see the Flash version of PCR [...]
…..aka PRS, voting systems
As some of you know, we’ve recently taken delivery of quite a few of these and several staff are using them actively. Just a couple of pointers to avoid disappointment or embarrassment in front of a class:
1. Check before you use a lecture room whether Turning Point is installed – the University [...]
It’s some time since I last blogged (or reported) on this so I will attempt a summary of progress and significant happenings to date.
UEL HABitat polyclinic
Phase 1 is now complete thanks to sterling efforts by the whole team:
Gemixin Ltd
Academics from Herbal medicine and Physiotherapy
Research assistant
Learning (and other) technologists
External evaluator
Herbal medicine students
This video clip gives a [...]
We had a productive meeting with all concerned (or nearly all) yesterday to review progress on UEL HABitat and agree timescales for the completion of phase 2.
The physiotherapy and herbal medicine patient cases are developing well and should be ready on schedule for testing with students in semester A.
The back end editor looks very straightforward [...]
Playing back audios and videos can be a challenge at times when one format works on one computer and not the next as we have discovered through the development of multimedia resources for students.
This is where VLC Media Player comes into the picture. It is available for download for both Windows and Mac OS and [...]
Extract from recent email:
All queries on the operation of UEL Plus and Turnitin should be sent to the e-learning mailbox elearn@uel.ac.uk where a Learning Technology Technician (LTT) or member of the Learning Systems Team will process the request. If the request is urgent, please mark the email as such but do not abuse this [...]
We are now developing a separate island for Health & Bisoscience – UEL HABitat which includes the original activities but also has a polyclinic for use by health care students (physiotherapy and herbal medicine initially) to diagnose and treat virtual patients. In conjunction with our developer Gemixin Ltd we are aiming to produce an editable virtual patient system to [...]
We started in January 09 by creating a building on UEL’s main island on Second Life with a virtual laboratory for PCR and electrophoresis experiments as well as a crime scene house (apartment) for use by forensic students. This video provides an outline of the first phase including evaluations of the student experience.
http://blip.tv/file/2432812/
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