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2021 – 2023
Project Partners:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Coordinator)
St George's, University of London
UK Masaryk University, Czech Republic
This project is an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project funded by the European Commission. The CLUEDUP project proposes to innovate the TBL activities with Escape Room elements. The resulting Combined Learning Activity (CLA) will be adaptable to other collaborative learning strategies, such as PBL, CBL, and Flipped Classroom (FC). The CLUEDUP project will deliver and share CLA outputs for the community to use and learn from. Scenarios will be built through cooperation with multiple stakeholders and will be built around the complications induced by COVID-19 and other emergencies. The outputs of the project will be shared through a number of platforms including a MOOC to train others in the development of their own CLA.
The project kick-off meeting will be taking place online on 14th June 2021 where the project partners will come together to discuss the project activities and outputs. More details will be shared during the project.
2018 – 2020
TELSON
This project engages partner institutions to increase the use of Virtual Scenario (VS) tools and Scenario Based Learning (SBL) methodologies in the education of biomedical and natural sciences. Through a process of knowledge sharing, authoring, and application of Virtual Scenarios in partner institutions, the project will analyse the efficacy of VS tools and SBL methodologies used with large populations of students and teachers. The partnership of this funded EC project comprises three institutions from three European countries:
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Masaryk University (Czechia)
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Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi (Romania)
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St George’s, University of London (United Kingdom).
The multi-institutional investigation of this type represents a benchmark in the exploration of pedagogy, efficacy and staffing efficiency of each method, in an era in which learning activities are increasingly blending face-to-face with eLearning.
Keywords: international; curriculum transformation; virtual patients; Erasmus+; strategic partnership.
2016 – 2018
Waves Network
This project combines skill sets of both academic and enterprise partners to make Scenario Based Learning (SBL) more accessible for a wide range of professions. Developments include the ability to embed SBL activities directly into learning platforms and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
By embedding SBL, MOOCs will enable development of real world skills, competency and experience rather than knowledge. The provision of training materials in multiple languages, including a ‘How to create Virtual Scenarios’ MOOC, will make VS more accessible for educators. The project will sustain and disseminate these activities through an extended partnership, the ‘WAVES’ network.
Scenario-based learning (SBL) techniques are widely recognised as a key tool in the educational toolkit, for safe training in competency and decision-making, but the available applications are challenging for educators to understand and use without considerable resource and effort.
Keywords: international; data standards; virtual patients; Erasmus+; knowledge alliance.
2015 – 2019
TAME Project
The overall objective of this project is to introduce innovative pedagogical methods that will provide training for students against medical error. TAME innovates curricula towards teaching and learning in a safe environment and closer to the needs of real practice, where medical errors occur.
Keywords: international; curriculum transformation; virtual patients; Erasmus+; capacity building.
2016 –
COPe-support
This project with the Institute of Population Health aims to develop and evaluate an online intervention providing peer support, information, and coping strategies to promote the wellbeing of families and friends of individuals affected by schizophrenia and psychosis.
EFFIP is a 5-year research project aiming to develop and evaluate an online resource for carers, called COPe-support (Carers fOr People with Psychosis e-support resource).
Keywords: psychosis; carers; National Institute of Health Research.
2015 – 2017
MEDCIN
Creation of a web-based visualization tool for comprehensive evaluation and mapping of medical curricula with the use of modern information and communication technologies.
Keywords: international; data standards; Erasmus+; strategic partnership
2013 – 2016
CROESUS
Training of academics and students to create their own learning and teaching content and introduce interactive patient systems as well as innovative pedagogy methods in the form of VPs into the clinical elements of the course.
Keywords: international; data standards; virtual patients; Erasmus+; strategic partnership.
2012 – 2015
ePBLnet
Creation of an International Network, ePBLnet, focused on Medical Education Centres (MECs) for the development and implementation of innovative teaching strategies, starting with modernisation of the early undergraduate medical curriculum.
Keywords: international; curriculum transformation; virtual patients; Tempus.
2012 – 2013
Generation 4.5
Embed Virtual Patient cases into the Medical and Healthcare Ethics curricula and disseminate the G4 experience more widely to other disciplines (e.g. law, philosophy and medicine).
Keywords: ethics; virtual patients; JISC
2010 – 2011
Virtual Training for Psychosis
A teaching scenario for psychiatry students to practice dealing with distressed and disturbed patients within a realistic virtual setting.
Keywords: virtual patients; virtual worlds
2009 – 2012
mEducator
Creation of an International Network, ePBLnet, focused on Medical Education Centres (MECs) for the development and implementation of innovative teaching strategies, starting with modernisation of the early undergraduate medical curriculum.
Keywords: international; data standards; virtual patients; eContent+
2009 – 2011
iEthics
Revolutionise medical ethics education in the UK and abroad for both staff and patients, at undergraduate and postgraduate level through the use of ethics virtual patient scenario.
Keywords: ethics; virtual patients.
2008 – 2010
Generation 4 (G4)
Use new technologies to assist in the creation of a more interactive model for curriculum delivery in medicine.
Keywords: virtual patients; curriculum transformation; JISC
2008 – 2009
PREVIEW
Deliver 5 Problem-Based Learning (PBL) scenarios for Paramedic students and implement a virtual patient player via the virtual world, Second Life.
Keywords: virtual patients; virtual worlds; data standards; JISC
2007 – 2010
eViP
Creation of a Europe-wide bank of electronic ‘virtual patients’ (VPs).
Keywords: international; virtual patients; data standards, eContent+
2007 – 2010
REViP
Explore and evaluate the embedding of repurposed and enriched Virtual Patients (VPs) within a Paediatrics component in the St George’s medical curriculum.
Keywords: virtual patients; curriculum development; JISC.
2005 – 2007
REHASH
Re-purpose in-house web-based teaching materials to a range of different educational levels to support student progress from further to higher education in medicine and healthcare.
Keywords: curriculum development; JISC.