NOVICE summer school 2011 (www.noviceproject.eu) Workshop: Virtual patients 1

2. Virtual patients/problems: Part 1 Introductionandfirststeps Introduction on VPs (Chris Trace) Creating VPs with CASUS (Jan Ehlers) Creating VPs with Xerte (Liz Mossop) Practice: Writing an own virtual patient/problem Discussion about the experiences 14.08.2011 2

3. Jan Ehlers Case based learning/Virtual Patients: Introduction and "first steps"

4. Characteristicsofcase-based (e-)learning Considerationof personal experiences Transfer to professional practice High affinityto real requirements Diagnosticreasoning 14.08.2011 4

5. Learning Theory: Constructivism 14.08.2011 5 Learningasconstructive, situationalprocessActivepositionofthelearner Designof situatedlearning environments CONSTRUCTION Teachingwithinthemeaningofencourage, support, adviseReactivepositionoftheteacher (MANDL 2002)

7. Faciliate the motivation to solve the cases (practical cases, good case stories and descriptions, use of multi-media)

8. Structured and clear process of finding a solution

9. Good possibilities to use the learned competencies

10. Evaluate only one learning goal per card/question14.08.2011 6

12. Ourdecision: a linear navigation Whydidwechoose a linear navigation? It prevents a cognitive overload which can be seen in branching (simulative) navigation. It follows the experts´ way through a case (called cognitive apprenticeship). The cases are much easier to create! 14.08.2011 8

13. The softwareweuse Card-basedlearningtool Combinationofanchoredinstruction(caseispresentedas a story), scaffolding (linear navigation) andcognitiveapprenticeship (expert solution) = INSTRUCTION + CONSTRUCTION Easy touseauthoringtool Not onlyused in medicine but also in law, languageteachingandecologicepidemiology) Database medicine > 3.000 casesAatabaseveterinarymedicine > 300 cases Internationallyusedforlearningandassessment 14.08.2011 9

14. Aspectsof CASUS Therearethreelevels… 14.08.2011 10 User Author Course manager

16. Possiblequestionformats Multiple Choice Type A (single choice, forced choice) Pick N ( real multiple choice) Short answer (incl. synonyms) Underlining Sorting Long text (not automatically evaluated) Laboratoy questions Long Menu Cloze (fill-in-the-blank) Network (Matrix, Rule-out) 14.08.2011 12

20. Try it on your own! Veterinary: http://tiho.casus.net (Accountneeded)(mostcasesin German) Human: http://vhb.casus.net http://evip.casus.net

21. Try it on yourown… (Sceenarios will be shown in the next workshop) Veterinary: http://tiho.casus.net (Accountneeded)(mostcases in German) Human: http://vhb.casus.net http://evip.casus.net 14.08.2011 17

22. Thankyouforyourattention! 14.08.2011 18 Contact Dr. Jan P. Ehlers, M.A. E-learningconsultant University ofVeterinaryMedicine Hannover Bünteweg 2 – D-30559 Hannover +49-511-953-8054 jan.ehlers@tiho-hannover.de www.tiho-hannover.de

24. NOVICE: ICT education14.08.2011 19