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CONTENT INDEX
1. Online Learning
1.Blackboard System
2.Moodle System
3.Online Cases
2. Virtual Education Tools
1.Virtual Patient
2.Virtual Hospital
3.Second Life
BLACKBOARD ONLINE LEARNING SYSTEM
• Blackboard is a Web-based integrated teaching and learning environment.
• Blackboard Learn 9.1 is a "next generation" online learning management system consisting of :
• The Blackboard Learning System, a course management system
• The Blackboard Community System, a community and portal system
• The Blackboard Content System, a content management system
Source from blackboard.com
BLACKBOARD SYSTEM
• Blackboard has been available at UIC since May of 1999. Course site
development and navigation is accomplished through a consistent and
easy-to-use web browser user interface.
• In UIUC, each medical student has both UIC and UIUC NetIDs.
• Any UIUC medical student is eligible to access Blackboard.
• Any instructor can request a course site for their class by filling out the
"Request a site" online form.
MOODLE ONLINE LEARNING SYSTEM
• Moodle is a free source e-learning software platform.
• Moodle has several features considered typical of an e-learning
platform, such as assignment submission, discussion forum, grading,
and online quiz.
• Moodle can be used in many types of environments such as in
education, training and development, and business settings.
• In UIUC, instructors need to contact Med School IT office to set up
Moodle courses.
ONLINE CASES
• Online cases are very popular among students.
• Online cases are good tools for instructors to facilitate students’ self-
direct learning. Instructors can use them as:
• Assignments
• Assessment
• Group activities
• In-class discussion
• Access Medicine (registration needed)
• Online Case Library
ONLINE CASES
• There are two examples.
VIRTUAL EDUCATION TOOLS
• Virtual education refers to instruction in a learning environment where
teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both, and the
teacher provides course content through the use of methods such as
course management applications, multimedia resources, the internet,
and videoconferencing. Students receive the content and communicate
with the teacher via the same technologies.(Kurbel, 2001)
• Virtual education tools include:
• Virtual Classroom
• Virtual Operating Room
• Virtual Patient
• Virtual Hospital
VIRTUAL PATIENT
• The term virtual patient is used to describe interactive computer
simulations used in health care education.
• In Harvard, the Virtual Patient Tutorial Library was created to
complement the "Virtual Patient", an interactive web-based program
enabling users to interact with computer-based patients in simulated
clinical encounters.
• The Virtual Patient topics range in contents:
• Literature reviews
• Diseases-based clinical reviews
• Normal physical exam instruction
• Pathophysiological mechanisms
• Radiology
VIRTUAL HOSPITAL
• Following are three examples of virtual hospitals
• St Emlyn's Virtual Hospital
• University of Iowa Virtual Hospital
• Virtual Children's Hospital
SECOND LIFE
• Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab which
was launched on June 23, 2003.
• Second Life is used as a platform for education by many institutions,
such as colleges, universities, libraries and government entities.
• Top 10 medical sites in Second Life, including:
• Ann Myers Medical Center
• Virtual Neurological Education Centre
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Heart Murmurs
Contact:
Dr. Jennie Hsu-Lumetta
Faculty Development Director,
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kirsten Lawhead
Coordinator
Tel: 217-383-4662