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Barriers to a Virtual Europe – ECEL 2009 Presentation

andyp — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:34:35 +0000

The final project output from the Virtual Europe project. A presentation for ECEL 2009: 8th European Conference on e-Learning.

At the conclusion of the Virtual Europe project, this paper offers a unique viewpoint on the benefits and limitations surrounding the development and pilot of a European health based simulated community. It discusses how the project has not successfully achieved its targeted objectives and reflects on the barriers which stopped the project from being successfully utilised within European health education curriculums. It contrasts the lessons learned from work on the Wessex Bay virtual community (Scammell et al. 2008) with its international counterpart and offers some suggestions on the practicalities of working on future interprofessional, intercultural e-learning projects.

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Final Project Presentation on Virtual Europe

andyp — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:35:18 +0000

The final project presentation on Virtual Europe given to the Cohehre Council in Tallinn, Estonia (22 – 24 April 2009)

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Interim Project Progress Report and Presentation on Virtual Europe

andyp — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:38:57 +0000

The interim project progress report and presentation on Virtual Europe prepared for the Cohehre Council in Nijmegen, Netherlands (8 April 2008)

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On the Road To Virtual Europe – Redux

andyp — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:10:02 +0000

My second article on the Cohehre Virtual Europe project presented at ECEL 2007 has now been revised and published as an Electronic Journal of e-Learning paper…..

On The Road To Virtual Europe – Redux
Published in
Special Issue e-Learning in Healthcare Volume 5 Issue 3, July 2007

On The Road To Virtual Europe

andyp — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:18:39 +0000

My second article on the Cohehre Virtual Europe project has now been published. This is an innovative and exciting 3 year virtual learning project set within a European Context, with the project running from June 2006 – May 2009.

On The Road To Virtual Europe
Published in
Proceedings of ECEL 2007
The 6th European Conference on e-Learning
ISBN: 978-1-905305-57-5 cd

ECEL 2007 Presentation

andyp — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:51:22 +0000

A presentation for ECEL 2007 on the Virtual Europe project. The presentation offers a unique view on the benefits and limitations surrounding the development and implementation of a European health based virtual community. How will it facilitate the elimination of barriers for international mobility of students and staff? How easy is it to integrate into differing European health curricula? How does it compare to the experiences offered by new virtual environments?

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Virtual Europe Project meeting #2

andyp — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:40:58 +0000

The project team met at the Cohehre conference in Sarajevo during April 2007 to discuss progress. The minutes are available from the Cohehre Website.

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Scenes From a Virtual Europe

andyp — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:42:09 +0000

My article on the Cohehre Virtual Europe project has now been published. This is an innovative and exciting 3 year virtual learning project set within a European Context. This project runs from June 2006 – May 2009.

Scenes From a Virtual Europe
Published in
Journal Of Allied Health
Winter 2006, Volume 35, Number 4

Virtual Europe Project meeting #1

andyp — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:24:47 +0000

The project team met in Bournemouth during November 2006 to discuss progress. the minutes are available from the Cohehre Website.

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Virtual Europe Project Begins

andyp — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:20:04 +0000

In association with partners from universities in Holland and Belgium, the IHCS Learning & Teaching team were successful in a bid to the Consortium of Institutes of Higher Education in Health and Rehabilitation In Europe (COHEHRE) for a project involving the creation of a virtual web-based European community (a european prototype version of the Simulated Community).

Virtual Europe is a virtual web-based European community from which case studies and scenarios may be accessed for learning and teaching purposes by teachers, groups and individual students (these case studies could have been developed in part by service users and carers). Virtual Europe features a map of Europe, which allows access to country specific resources (such as a town hospital) populated with different cultural case studies. This would allow comparisons and contrasts between cultures to be examined. For example, a student in the UK could compare and contrast the differences between UK and European approaches to treatment and care of a patient in a particular situation.

Cohehre was established on the belief that the development and quality of higher education for the health care professions would be enhanced by international cooperation, realising amongst others, an international/European dimension to the educational activities of its membership. This project aims to provide a cultural opportunity to work on a cross border project, and offer the chance to provide an innovative virtual learning environment, which could be utilised across Cohehre partner institutions.

The project initially runs from July 2006 through to June 2009.