mEducator: Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Panos Bamidis mEducator Project Director Assist. Prof. Medical Education Informatics Medical School ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI GREECE

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, What is mEducator? A Best Practice Network co-funded by the – eContentplus 2008 programme of the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Start Date May 1 st, 2009 Duration 3 years Contract Reference: ECP-2008-EDU

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Medical Education: facts & challenges medical and biomedical information and knowledge is ever expanding medical disciplines become increasingly overspecialized medical education includes both theoretical instruction and clinical apprenticeship thus, medical education is based on a broad range of learning content, which, nowadays, in its most part, is also available and distributed digitally

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator central idea discover, retrieve, use, rate, re-use and re-purpose educational content irrespective of any Learning Management System use providers and users of such content may be – expert instructors (academics / health professionals) – students / learners

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator “content” refers to educational material with a registered history of creation and evolution Is linked with – specific educational goals and objectives – learning outcomes – educational contexts/settings comes recommended with – certain teaching methods & strategies types

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator “content” … content can be anything, as long as it is properly accompanied by a clear description of – what objectives it meets – what learning outcomes it envisages – how is it supposed to be taught – how is can be assessed…

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Learning content in medical education produced by a variety of sources: – basic research outcome – accepted scientific knowledge – clinical practice addresses a variety of learning/teaching approaches – conventional teaching material – content for active learning experiences: case/problem/role/inquiry/… based learning

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Medical learning content types conventional content – lecture notes, books, exam questions, practicals, scientific papers, graphs, images, videos, … content types unique in medical education – teaching files, virtual patients, evidence based medicine forms, objective standard clinical examinations, anatomical atlases, … alternative educational content types – reflecting active learning techniques and new technologies: didactic problems, wikis, forums, web traces, … user generated content – reflecting user interaction with learning content

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Content re-purposing & re-use considering the state of the art nature of medical educational content, it is imperative that such content is – repurposed – enriched – re-used so as to be embedded effectively in medical curricula, continuing medical education and public awareness

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, What is content re-purposing ? changing a learning object initially created and used for a specific educational purpose in a specific educational context, in order to fit a different purpose in the same or different educational context

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Content re-purposing types (1)in terms of the actual content – add or mutate content of a learning object – integrate or fuse content from different objects – re-organize existing content (2) re-purpose to different languages – crucial as medical knowledge has to be conveyed to the public as well (3) re-purpose to different cultures – mainly account for different legislation, medical regulations, lab test norms, reference values, units, requirements for different groups

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Content re-purposing types… (4)re-purpose for different pedagogical approaches: – from conventional lecturing to active experiential learning (and vice-versa) (5) re-purpose for different educational levels: – to match different prerequisites for undergraduate, postgraduate, residents, specialists, life-long professional training, public awareness (6) re-purpose for different disciplines and professions – ranging from medicine, and nursing to lab technicians, basic life sciences, to bioengineering and informatics, and even to healthcare administrators etc.

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Content re-purposing types… (7)re-purpose to different content types: – change a learning object from one type to another (8) re-purpose for different technology: – digital format, digital size and quality, metadata description scheme, computer platform, etc (9) re-purpose content created for a different from education scope (e.g. policy/strategy support…)

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, But why bother with studying re-purposing ? automatically re-purpose learning objects keep track of a learning object evolution – credentials to contributing individuals – IPR issues – update a learning object (or a fragment of it) a different view in learning objects search: via associations created during repurposing

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator scope critically evaluate existing standards and reference models so as to enable specialized, state-of-the-art medical educational content to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions. Medical educational content within: – traditional instructional teaching… – …to active learning and experiential teaching/studying Content types – from text to exam sheets – medical algorithms – teaching files – computer programs (simulators or games) – interactive objects virtual patients electronically traced anatomies Covers a variety of topics.

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator User-generated Content Web2.0 based PBL/CBL MEDTING Clinical Cases Interactions with Virtual Patients Cases in the form of e- traces Interactions with serious medical games …

Personal Blogs Class Discussion Forums Class Wikis Back

Healthcare Consumers and Clinicians Collaborate – Social Bookmarking

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eTrace – Graphics annotation based lessons Back

Triage Trainer Medical data in a training scenario Developed by TrueSim/VEGA group in collaboration with the SGI Uses Virtual Patient concept – Sophisticated and dynamic model required for detailed simulation of casualties NanoMission Developed by PlayGen, another SGI partner Introduces nanomedical concepts in an interactive and engaging way Requires data in formats that enable interactive and realistic interactions between user and biological system Back

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator objectives identify and collect a critical mass of different types of health educational material examine if existing standards can address all types of health educational material, and make respective recommendations for standards extensions examine if existing standards are adequate to support the packaging and seamless delivery of all these types of educational material examine possible extensions of existing ontological schemata, which describe the semantics of Learning Objects communicate and interact with standardization bodies to ensure adoption of recommendations/extensions into standards.

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator Learning Contexts Educational Setting Target User Type/Category Learning Context / Curriculum LevelComments Medical Schools Medical educators Train the Trainers programs Beginner, intermediate, advanced Level refers to IT tools literacy; focus is placed on how to best create, repurpose, resolve IPR and easily describe content metadata Medical Schools Undergraduate medical students MD degreeBeginner, intermediate, advanced Level refers to topic coverage; focus is shifted towards better achievement of learning outcomes by using all this shared content Medical Schools Postgraduate medical students MSc degreeintermediate, advanced Level refers to topic coverage; focus is shifted towards better achievement of learning outcomes by using all this shared content University Hospitals, Training Hospitals Resident doctors, Medical Professionals Continuous Medical Education (CME); Hospital Training Schemas intermediate, advanced Level refers to IT tools literacy; educational issues should address the need to find practical, highly specialised, and well re-purposed (localised) healthcare practice examples (protocols, guidelines)

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator will test 2 different approaches for sharing 1.loosely coupled LCMSs –via mashup technologies 2.federated architecture –semantic web services partner institute 1 partner institute 4 partner institute 3 partner institute 2 partner institute 5 federated architecture

Project Plan

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Ultimate goal… provide mechanisms for content publishing, discovery, and retrieval analyze policies and mechanisms for content evaluation, rating, renewal and repurposing elaborate on issues of intellectual property rights of educational material, based on current peer property license practices test the impact of true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment, and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date learning resources in each of the partners’ curricula provide recommendations on how to implement interoperable educational content discovery and retrieval networks

co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, mEducator Partners 1Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGR Coordinator, Technology provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 2University of CyprusCYTechnology Provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 3Democritus University of ThraceGRContent provider, Technology provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 4SITUSI LimitedIRContent provider, Technology provider, Dissemination 5Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca RO Technology provider, Pedagogical expert 6Université Nice Sophia Antipolis FR Content provider, User 7Medical University Plovdiv BG Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User 8Università degli studi di Catania IT Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User/Evaluation 9University of Helsinki FI Pedagogical expert, Evaluation 10St George's Hospital Medical School UK Standardisation Body Technology and Content Provider 11Succubus Interactive FR Content and Technology Provider 12The Open University UK Technology Provider 13Coventry UniversityUKContent provider, Technology provider 14European Cervical Cancer AssociationFRUser/Evaluation

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co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme July 31st, Contacts Panos Bamidis mEducator Project Director Medical School ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece bamidis med.auth.gr Maria Nikolaidou mEducator Project Manager Medical School ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece mnikol med.auth.gr Eleni Kaldoudi mEducator Steering Committee Medical School DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE, Greece kaldoudi med.duth.gr Costas Pattichis mEducator Steering Committee Dept. of Computer Science UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, Cyprus pattichi cs.ucy.ac.cy