preview: virtual patients in second life learning in immersive worlds
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PREVIEW: Virtual Patients in Second Life Learning in Immersive worlds. Emily Conradi, Sheetal Kavia, Luke Woodham, Terry Poulton St George’s University of London. Overview. Introduction to PREVIEW About virtual patients Demonstration Technology Where next?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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PREVIEW:Virtual Patients in Second Life
Learning in Immersive worlds
Emily Conradi, Sheetal Kavia,
Luke Woodham, Terry PoultonSt George’s University of London
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Overview
• Introduction to PREVIEW • About virtual patients• Demonstration• Technology• Where next?
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Problem-based Learning in Virtual Interactive Educational Worlds
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Background
• Problem-based learning courses• Students in work placemento At a distance;o Time poor;o Loss of collaborative element.
• Investigate new ways to deliver PBL
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Why Second Life?
• Cost• Ownership • Supports external resources• Educational community• Voice and chat• Evolving
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Aims
• Deliver PBL in Second Life;• Develop eight interactive PBL scenarios;• Users guide development and evaluation;• Develop guidelines and best-practice on delivering
PBL in virtual worlds;• Share outputs, technology.
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Virtual Patients
“an interactive computer simulation of real-life clinical scenarios for the purpose of
medical training, education, or assessment”
Ellaway, R., Candler, C., Greene, P. and Smothers, V., 2006.
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Paramedic Scenarios
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MVP
• Process of authoring, adapting and exchanging virtual patients iso Difficulto Time-consumingo Costly
• These factors have limited their uptake• A standard would reduce the problem by enabling
interoperability between systemso Medbiquitous Virtual Patient (MVP) standard for exchange and
reuse of virtual patients
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MVP Elements
Virtual Patient Data•XML data
•Personal and clinical data relevant to the patient
Media resources•Media collection of supported file types
Data Availability Model•XML Data
•References the Virtual Patient data and media resources
Activity Model•XML Data
•Encodes how the learner engages with the virtual patient
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Testing days
• Technology• Training• Scenarios• Engagement• Collaboration• Learning
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Future work
• More testing days• Embedding within course• Comprehensive evaluation
o Guideso Best practice
• Releasing scenarios and toolso Register, demoso Opensource
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Where next?
• Create more scenarios• Expand functionality• Extend work to other subjects/Institutions
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Thank you
Sheetal Kavia
Luke Woodham
http://www.elu.sgul.ac.uk/preview