#e12_ps055 epfmg_slides_ educause2012
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For ten years the physician teachers of the Medicine Faculty of Paris Descartes have focused their efforts on the structuration of knowledge and on self-apprenticeship. The medical students’ program of studies is collected in a portfolio which stays with them throughout their three years of study. This follow-up was achieved through the use of a paper portfolio compiling each student’s work. The teachers wished to use an online tool that was easy to use, reachable from everywhere, that allowed a fine management of access rights, that could broadcast protected contents and insure the progressive validation, by tutors, of the skills acquired during the three years of study. An experiment on the social network of Paris Descartes University, in collaboration with the TICE department (ICT for Education) lead to the creation of an educational plan for skill acquisition and evaluation. A system of e-Portfolios of medical students was set up in 2010. It is an original solution relying on a community of learners in a network. It is a virtual space, which is not a simple on-line copy of paper documents, but an environment in which collaborative work can occur. The interface personally involves all members of the medical practitioners department. It is organized on a personal workspace allowing the user to present him or herself and to be identified within the university. The student uses his or her e-portfolio, bringing together his work, alternating editorial sections (clinical narratives, track of learning, balance assessment of the meetings with the tutor) and declarative sections (index cards of training course, self-assessment of the skills with link towards the contents described in the other sections). The tutor sees a follow-up and assessment board, allowing him or her to guide the student in the progress of his/her work and writing, to spot possible delays and failures before formal on-line assessment. The work produced by the student is easily useable for research: it contributes to the description of the practices and the situations, made exploitable by the tool, which allows the transverse export of the data. This is a flexible tool, in the service of the evolution of needs. This e-portfolio favors the emergence of innovative educational solutions, harmonizes the various places of learning, federates the teaching team and facilitates interactions. It brings the students into a dynamic of educational research. It increases the digital visibility of the students, the teachers and the course within Paris Descartes University. The medical is a precursor within the Paris Descartes University of the use of on-line e-portfolios. This social Learning tool is extremely useful for students who alternate brief periods in the Medical College with training periods in a medical office and/or in a hospital. It allows a simplified teaching follow-up for the tutors of medical studies.TRANSCRIPT
A Learning Social Network using an e-Portfolio for
Medical Practitioners Studies
epfMG : ePortFolio de Médecine Générale
Thierry Koscielniak, ICT for Education Executive Director
Contents
S Context and issues at General Practice Office
S e-portfolio : tutor’s view and student’s view
S Network and communication
S Evolutions and benefits
Paris Descartes University
S Multidisciplinary university S Spread over 9 colleges
and 1 institute of technology
S 38,000 students S 200 PhD granted each
year
S 4,000 members S Faculties, researchers,
staff and technical people
S 1,300 researchers S 82 research labs
Paris Descartes University
Institute of Technology Biomedecine Maths & Computer Sci. Human & Social Sciences Headquarters + Medecine Pharmacy Psychology Sports Odontology Law – Economics
General Prac3ce Office
S The DES of Medical Practice is a postgraduate professionalizing study (3 years)
S A pedagogy based on self-apprenticeship used since 6 years
S A pedagogy focused on mentoring
The distance between the sites of courses and tutors justifies the use of an online educational tool
General Prac3ce program
S 330 students using epfMG (100 students each year of studies)
S 80 tutors (mainly GP)
S More than 1,000 reports done on it since 2010
S Minimum 2 reports a semester/per student
Mentoring at General Prac3ce department
S The students’ work is to : S Produce researched and written works S Accountable for their learning
S The tutors’ work is to S Help and accompany a future GP in a constant,
formative, and progressive assessment
Individual and central tools
S On line S Use everywhere S Access control : tutors, epfMG members S Enable to illustrate and to document skills
S Easy S For supervision and tracking of students S For sharing information S For progressive validation S For certificate students
Tools
S Contents of student portfolio S Editing tool S Communication tool S Personal space S Self-assessment tool
S Contents of tutors tracking S Validation tool S Communication tool S Personal space S Dashboard
The student’s view
Name of the tutor
Validation requests
The tutor’s view
Pending validation requests
Direct access to students’ portfolios
A student porBolio’s exemple : medical story
The tutor validates and comments the clinical
narratives
The student writes his or her clinical narratives
The tutor’s dashboard
Global vision of students on-going works
The network
S The network is focused on the student-tutor relationship
S Working groups
S Students’ shared knowledge
S Mentoring
Works on an elgg platform Open Source Social Networking Engine
Working groups
S Forum
S Files exchange
S Shared agenda
Personal Workspace
S All his/her writing's works
S Displaying his/her own qualifications profile
S Digital identity
S Messages
Evolu3ons
S Develop validation and assessment tools via a Moodle connexion
S The e-portfolio could concern other medical practice trainings in partner universities
S To help tutors with more training : let them be more efficient while using epfMG
Benefits
S Simplify teaching follow-up for tutors
S Encourage a regular work pace for students and tutors
S Strengthen the communication and relationship between students and tutors
S Federate the teaching team and facilitate interactions
S Create of an environment in which collaborative work occurs
S Increase digital visibility of the students within Paris Descartes University
S Promote innovative teaching solutions
Contact us
Dr Jean-Claude Schwartz
Dr Robert Sourzac
Thierry Koscielniak, Dir.
Yann Sallou, Lead dev.
Guylène Lefèvre, Prj. Mng
ICT for Education Paris Descartes
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Thierry Koscielniak, ICT for Education Executive Director