Multi-Type Content Repurposing & Sharing in Medical Education E. Kaldoudi, P. Bamidis, C. Pattichis School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace,GR School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, CY and the meducator consortium March 2009
new technologies in education educational shift from teaching to learning active support and funding from EU and local governments EC, March 2000 knowledge-based society EC, May 2008 5 th freedom: free movement of knowledge 2 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
medical education information processed facts & data knowledge structured information with a purpose understanding conscious knowledge, achievement of explanation, expertise 3 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
information technology information dissemination electronic textbooks, atlases, medical & biological databases, scientific press, achieving knowledge & understanding creation, management and dissemination of digital teaching file collections (e.g. VPs) self-evaluation tools and processes mediation of teacher-learner communication web 2.0 & web 3.0 to support active learning 4 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
contemporary medical education facts: medical and biomedical information and knowledge (basic & core) is ever expanding medical disciplines become increasingly overspecialized medical educators become increasingly overspecialized challenges: how to provide expert knowledge in remote institutions how to provide more audience to overspecialized educators located at remote institutions how to communicate and share skills and competences (not only knowledge) 5 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
IntraMEDnet project title: IntraMEDnet: A Mediterranean Research and Higher Education Intranet in Medicine & Biology programme: INTERREG III B ARCHIMED EU Community Initiative, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) budget: ~1.200.000 duration: 2006-2008 consortium: 6 partners from 3 EU countries 6 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
IntraMEDnet consortium 6 partners from 3 EU countries University of Cyprus, Cyprus General Hospital of Paphos, Cyprus Democritus University of Thrace, Greece University of Patras, Greece University of Naples, Italy Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 7 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
IntraMEDnet approach develop and share individual educational modules self contained educational units with well specified educational objectives thematically targeted and overspecialized developed by overspecialized experts available for sharing over the web 8 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
educational module repositories detailed descriptive information for each module author - copyright - life cycle educational goals, outcomes, content, teaching methods, workload, etc context, instructions of use complex educational module text, presentation, exams, discussion, video, chart, data, etc detailed module info complex educational module web-based LMS 9
IntraMEDnet central idea educational content is described with standard metadata (LOM) and packaged in a standard way (SCORM) so that an expert from Partner1 downloads content from any another Partner LMS and imports content into his/her own LMS each partner can implement their LMS of choice, as long as this is standard-compliant
partner institute 3 partner institute 2 partner institute 4 isolated servers & manual search/retrieve partner institute 1 partner institute 5 11 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
IntraMEDnet goes wider (WideMEDnet) a first attempt towards automated content sharing AUTH UoPatras via moodle networks feature UCY user of one site becomes user of the network SSL and XML/RPC transport but everybody must have moodle no automation to search and retrieve DUTH UNINA DUTH user 12 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
WideMEDnet central idea instead of instructors downloading content provided by other experts and importing it in their own LMS: make LMSs know each other, so that student users of one LMS can use other partner s LMS seamlessly thus, the instructor chooses to include links to content (not content) provided by other experts in their own LMS catch: all partners have to implement the same LMS: moodle (www.moodle.org)
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WideMEDnet project title: WideMEDnet: A Mediterranean network for Higher and Continuing Medical Education Resources programme: INTERREG III B ARCHIMED, EU Community Initiative, Co-financing by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) budget: ~480.000 duration: 2008 consortium: 7 partners from 3 EU countries 18 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
WideMEDnet project consortium 7 partners from 3 EU countries University of Cyprus, Cyprus General Hospital of Paphos, Cyprus University of Patras, Greece subcontractror: University of Naples, Italy Technical University of Cuprus, Cyprus Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece subcontractor: Democritus University of Thrace, Greece 19 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
Intra(Wide)MEDnet goes even further project title: meducator: Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education project type: Best Practice Network) programme: econtentplus Information Society & Media Directorate General Εuropean Commission budget: ~4.500.000 duration: 2009-2012 consortium: 14 partners from 10 EU countries 20 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
meducator consortium 1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR Coordinator, Technology provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 2 University of Cyprus CY Technology Provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 3 Democritus University of Thrace GR Content provider, Technology provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 4 SITUSI Limited IR Content provider, Technology provider, Dissemination 5 Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca RO Technology provider, Pedagogical expert 6 Université Nice Sophia Antipolis FR Content provider, User 7 Medical University Plovdiv BG Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User 8 Università degli studi di Catania IT Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User/Evaluation 9 University of Helsinki FI Pedagogical expert, Evaluation St George's Hospital Medical UK Standardisation Body 10 School Technology and Content Provider FR 11 Succubus Interactive Content and Technology Provider 12 The Open University UK Technology Provider 13 Coventry University UK Content provider, Technology provider 14 European Cervical Cancer Association FR User/Evaluation E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
meducator central idea discover, retrieve, use, rate, re-use and re-purpose educational content irrespective of LMS providers and users of such content can be expert instructors students / learners
meducator content refers to educational material with a registered history of creation and evolution linked with specific educational goals and objectives learning outcomes educational contexts/settings recommended with certain teaching methods & strategies types 23 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
meducator content content can be anything conventional, e.g. from text and slides to exam sheets active/experiential, e.g. PBL sessions, teaching files algorithms, computer programs (simulators or games) interactive objects, e.g. virtual patients, electronically traced anatomies user generated & collaborative, e.g. wikis, blogs, 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... 24 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
meducator content can be repurposed, i.e. altered in any way to account for: multilingual use multicultural use different educational levels different educational scenarios different subject disciplines or healthcare professions enrichment, evolution, mutation... 25 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
2 different approaches for sharing loosely coupled LCMSs via mashup technologies federated architecture semantic web services partner institute 3 partner institute 2 federated architecture 26 partner institute 4 partner institute 5 partner institute 1
ultimate goal provide mechanisms for content publushing, 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 27 E. Kaldoudi - INTED 2009
acknowledgements meducator Best Practice Network econtentplus Information Society & Media Directorate General Εuropean Commission IntraMEDnet & WideMEDnet INTERREG III B ARCHIMED EU Community Initiative Co-financing by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
cite as E. Kaldoudi, P. Bamidis, and C. Pattichis, Multi-Type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education, Proceedings of INTED2009: International Technology, Education and Development Conference, pp. 5129-5139, Valencia, March 9-11, 2009