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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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/ Posted via [...]
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