This presentation was given as part of the E-Learning for the Learner: the challenge of providing learner centred education in the Age of the Internet Symposium held at the Association for Medical Education in Europe annual meeting held in Lyon, France, 27-29 August 2012

1. E-­‐Learning
for
the
Learner:
the
challenge
of
providing
learner
centred
educa6on
in
the
Age
of
the
Internet
Moving
Beyond
Blackboard:
The
VLE
journey
at
Dundee
Natalie
Lafferty
h9p://www.flickr.com/photos/59939034@N02/5476290876/

2. VLE
-­‐
Gone
full
circle
a
bit
of
a
bumpy
ride

3. Curriculum
Map
Blackboard
VLE

4. Loss
of
curriculum
map

5. Customised
Year
Pages

6. Student
&
staff
feedback
Increasingly
nega6ve
• Usability
issues
• Loss
of
curriculum
map
• Loss
of
6metable
• Access
issues
• Staff
disengagement
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4580070895/sizes/z/in/photostream/

7. VLE
-­‐
One
size
does
not
fit
all

8. Dundee
MBChB
-­‐
Spiral
curriculum

9. h9p://www.flickr.com/photos/teddy-­‐rised/2814710002/
VLE
primarily
just
suppor6ng
transmission
of
informa6on?

10. h9p://www.flickr.com/photos/jrhode/4493448377/

11. http://www.dontbeasalmon.net/med.html

13. • Commonly
used
as
a
blogging
pla_orm
• Open
source
with
large
developer
community
• Used
in
in
higher
educa6on
to
support
online
learning
• Wide
range
of
plug-­‐ins
support
customisa6on

14. First
pilots
Blogging
doctors
suppor6ng
learning

17. Student
Feedback
Useful
links
to
journals,
other
sites,
embedded
video
Informa6on
easy
to
find
Good
revision
aid
78%
wanted
other
teaching
blocks
to
do
something
similar
Lack
of
forma6ve
assessment
opportuni6es
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4580070895/sizes/z/in/photostream/

19. Students
liked
&
wanted
more
forma6ve
assessment

20. Second
phase
pilots
-­‐
WordPress
installed
on
local
server
University
LDAP
login

21. Delivering
lectures
-­‐
interac6ve
6metable
-­‐
forma6ve
assessment
-­‐
ask
Dundee
Chest

22. Student
Feedback
85%
preferred
it
to
Blackboard
Blog
format
more
intui6ve
&
easy
to
use
and
explore
Loved
sefng
the
site
to
my
homepage
so
could
easily
check
announcements
&
latest
comments
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23. Replica6ng
DundeeChest
approach
in
Blackboard

24. Student Feedback
The
actual
learning
in
Endocrinology
was
almost
always
excellent
and
I
enjoyed
it.
However
I
found
the
Blackboard
experience
very
poor.
(It
was
equally
poor
in
semester
one
and
two
of
first
year).
Having
a
Dundee
Endocrinology
developed
like
Dundee
Chest
would
be
absolutely
excellent
-­‐
going
back
to
using
Blackboard
amer
having
Dundee
Chest
was
very
depressing.
h9p://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4580070895/sizes/z/in/photostream/

25. Student Feedback
The
blog
format
was
leaps
and
bounds
be9er
than
blackboard.
It’s
intui6ve,
easy
to
use,
and
be9er
to
students
to
explore
all
the
resources
available
(much
of
which
I
didn't
even
know
about
simply
because
of
BB's
format).
h9p://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/4580070895/sizes/z/in/photostream/

26. 4th
&
5th
year
study
guides
staff
&
students

29. Staff
Feedback
Easy to use
Ease of access in NHS
Speed of access
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jreed/322057793/

30. Personalisa6on
Reflec6ng
the
personality
and
flavour
of
each
individual
clinical
specialty
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianinsheffield/5611248212/in/photostream/

31. Flexibility
to
support
teaching
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheesygarlicboy/2407020068/

32. Increased
staff
engagement
in
the
use
of
educa6onal
technology
focusing
on
what
and
how
they
wanted
to
teach

33. Implementa6on
Undergraduate
Medical
Educa6on
Commi9ee
decision
to
migrate
Phase
2
teaching
from
Blackboard
to
Dundee
MBChB
learning
portal
for
2011/12

35. Integra6ng
early
years
teaching
with
clinical
years
teaching

36. Integra6ng
curriculum
themes

37. Providing
links
&
pulling
in
informa6on
from
journals
&
social
bookmarks
using
RSS
feeds

38. TWITTER

39. Phase
2
Student
Feedback
I
think
medblogs
is
a
great
addi6on
to
the
elearning
environment.
Medblogs
is
a
fantas6c
resource
and
much
more
useful
than
Blackboard
ever
was.
Medblogs
system
was
extremely
useful
and
very
user
friendly
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40. Phase
2
Student
Feedback
I
think
medblogs
is
a
great
addi6on
to
the
elearning
environment.
Medblogs
is
a
fantas6c
resource
and
much
more
useful
than
Blackboard
ever
was.
Medblogs
system
was
extremely
useful
and
very
user
friendly
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41. Phase
2
Student
Feedback
Areas
for
improvement
• Discussion
board
• Announcement
management
• Missing
lectures
• More
forma6ve
assessment
wanted
• More
interac6ve
elearning
tutorials
wanted
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42. Implementa6on
Migra6on
of
Phase
3
clinical
teaching
from
Blackboard
to
Dundee
MBChB
learning
portal
for
2012/13
&
integra6on
with
new
6metable
and
learning
repository

44. VLE
Journey
Stage
1
-­‐
Bespoke
Phase
2
-­‐
Blackboard
Phase
3
-­‐
Wordpress
Teacher
Teacher
Student
centred
–
centred
–
centred
–
informa6on
informa6on
Self-­‐directed
transmission
transmission
learning
&
&
technology
educa6onally
led
led

45. (Siemens
2005;
Sandars
2009)

48. Student developed content

49. Dundee
VLE
Journey
Stage
3
Wordpress
Mul6user
Stage
2
site
Blackboard
Ins6tu6onal
VLE
Stage
1
Bespoke
In-­‐house
VLE

50. Overall Outcomes
• A community of interest and learning practice
is emerging
• Teaching staff becoming more confident in
using technology to support their teaching
• Teachers sharing good practice
• Increasing student engagement
• Staff & student advisory groups informing
future developments
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51.
QuesFons
Natalie
Lafferty
Email:
n.t.lafferty@dundee.ac.uk
Twi9er:
@nlafferty
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