Queen’s Anniversary Prize 2005 On the 17th of February 2006 the University was awarded a prize for the Virtual Hospital Online, a learning support environment developed in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine. The Prizes for Higher and Further Education are awarded biennially for outstanding achievements of excellence in activities, areas of work and …
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The mobile phone, the VLE and intravenous access Case study by Jo Spiller, MVM, and Sam Smith, Centre for Medical Education Throughout 2010-2011, a research project has been running from within the Centre for Medical Education, to record students’ cannulation practice. Each time a cannulation is performed, participating students are required to record whether the …
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Edinburgh Reusable Object Sequencer EROS is a CAL authoring tool built by LTS for creating and presenting online tutorials to undergraduate medical students within EEMeC. EROS allows staff to create modules consisting of different questions types, for example information, MCQ, free text, essay, math or pair matching types. Each question can also have media attached …
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Objectives for Personal and Adaptive Learning The OPAL project was funded by the Principal’s e-learning Fund to develop tools and frameworks to support objective- and outcome-based teaching and learning in the MBChB and the BVM&S. The software, situated within the VLE, enables users to create and maintain learning outcomes and their relationships.
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The Edinburgh Electronic Medical Curriculum (EEMeC) is a collaborative project between the Medical Teaching Organisation and the Learning Technology Section of the Faculty Group of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Information systems are an increasing part of modern healthcare and as such EEMeC intrinsically supports informatics skills training. Developed for the College of Medicine and Veterinary …
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