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Virtual Patient Developments (June 2010)

June 17th, 2010 Rose Heaney No comments

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 [...]

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Virtual lab experiments available

December 7th, 2009 Rose Heaney No comments

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 [...]

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State of play on Second Life (Nov 09)

November 27th, 2009 Rose Heaney No comments

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 [...]

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Useful meeting re: SL progress

September 18th, 2009 Rose Heaney No comments

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 [...]

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Second Life Developments (Early Days 2)

September 18th, 2009 Rose Heaney No comments

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 [...]

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Second Life developments (Early Days 1)

September 18th, 2009 Rose Heaney No comments

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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