mahara as an e-learning tool karen dunne veterinary nursing
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Mahara as an e-learning tool
Karen DunneVeterinary Nursing
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Overview
• What is Mahara?
• What did we do with it?
• How did we get on?
• What next?
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Introduction
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“Facebook for academics”
• Staff & students can create an account
• Text, images, files, videos etc. displayed on pages
• Added together to make a portfolio
• Create a group & invite people to join & see your work, or make it public
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“Open source”
• This means it’s free
• This also means nobody spends any money making sure it works really well!
This user interface
really sucks!
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My intervention
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What did we do?
• Pharmacy module (50:50)
• CA assignment (30%)
• Design a client information sheet
• Review information for veterinary colleagues
• Evaluate sources used to inform the work
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How is this relevant to veterinary nursing?
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Client complianceNo matter what
veterinary nurses say to clients.....
This is what they hear....
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Optimal medication use
• Medicines must be used correctly to be effective (clients & veterinary staff)
• A common test of communication skills!
• This project was designed to improve students’ communication strategies & IT skills
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How did we get on?
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Quality of student work
• Marking scheme & assignment details provided on Moodle
• From passable to excellent
• Promoted creativity
• Integration of text, images, audio & video clips
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What did the students think?
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Student feedback
• SurveyMonkey
• A lot of grumbling!
• Did (reluctantly!)concede that they learned several new skills
• Could see the value of the exercise
Mahara
Some of them really embraced it
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How did I find it?
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Strengths
• Flexible - especially for the use of multimedia
• Encouraged student creativity
• Student progress & engagement can be monitored
• Easy to place comments on work
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Weaknesses• Hard to get student access to PCs
for training
• Difficult to give specific & detailed feedback
• Some problematic software quirks
• Privacy settings confusing
• “figure it out as you go along”
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What next?
• I will use it again
• Make students share their finished work with the rest of the class
• Find another way to give feedback - only put part of the project on it
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Final thoughts
• Useful tool
• Great way to incorporate multimedia
• Annoying software interface & privacy settings
• Encourages student creativity
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Thank you for your attention
Any questions?