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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Here is the SimpleMind mindmap of my presentation from Handheld Learning 2009 created on iPhone (it’s too big to see in this post so I’ve attached it as a link).

SimpleMind is a great free easy to use application which you can then upload to iPhoto – shame it wasn’t really big enough to hand around at the conference round table so I resorted to a paper version.

HHL09 Presentation Mindmap

I will be presenting a short (but lovely) paper “Mobile Technology as a mechanism for delivering improved Quality of Life” at Handheld Learning 2009 in a roundtable session. Here are the links to web materials from my reference list which might be of use from this (a full list including other references will accompany the final paper at a later date).

Anderson, J. and Rainie, L. (2008). The Future of the Internet III. Retrieved February 16, 2009, from Washington, DC: Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Barr, F. (2009). Nintendo DS to offer diabetes care. Retrieved July 24, 2009, from London: E-Health Europe.

The Centre for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare. (2009). C-PAHC Vision. Retrieved January 6, 2009, from The Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare.

Fox, S. and Fallows, D. (2003). Internet Health Resources. Retrieved October 30, 2008, from Washington, DC: Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Haddon, L. (2008). Mobile Access to Social Networking Sites: A UK Survey. Retrieved February 17, 2009, from London School of Economics.

HealthMap. (2009). Global Disease Alert Map. Retrieved February 24, 2009, from Harvard-MIT: HealthMap.

Horrigan, J.B. and Rainie, L. (2006). The Internet’s Growing Role in Life’s Major Moments. Retrieved July 7, 2009, from Washington, DC: Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Imperial College London. (2006). New report demonstrates the need for systematic use of mobile technology in healthcare. Retrieved January 12, 2009, from Imperial College London.

Madrigal, A. (2009). Tracking Internet Chatter Helps Spot Swine Flu Outbreak. Retrieved July 9, 2009, from Wired.

Ubisoft. (2008). My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight. Retrieved July 21, 2008, from Ubisoft.

Who Is Sick? (2009). Retrieved February 24, 2009, from USA: Who Is Sick?

World Health Organisation. (2003). Adherence to long term therapies – Evidence for action. Retrieved February 19, 2009, from World Health Organisation: Geneva.

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

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Looking forward to heading up to Mlearn 2008 on Wednesday – here’s my presentation (if you missed it or can’t attend) on the Techdis project……

mlearn 2008 Presentation

ps – to vote for the TechDis HEAT Project at Handheld Learning 2008. Txt HEAT to : +447786203140

Just back from presenting a paper at the Serious Games Conference with Mark Shufflebottom focusing on the production of a serious game. The project, a collaboration between the School of Heath and Social Care and NHS South West, was one of three HSC e-learning initiatives granted funding during 2007. Mark worked with myself and Ruth Lewis from the HSC Clinical Skills team to create a web-based virtual simulation of an infection control scenario. This presentation included a brief q and a and a demo of the application.

mrsa-serious-game-conference-slides

Serious Games on the Move 2008

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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Attended a really enjoyable and stimulating e-learning conference at Plymouth today. Here’s my session on Web 2.0 @ BU – Use of Wikis within the School of Health & Social Care (instead of using powerpoint this session utilised a wikispace)

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Date & Time Of Presentation : Friday 4th April 2008 at 11.45am – 12.15pm

Andy At Plymouth

Steve Wheeler’s Conference Round-up

Instead of using powerpoint this session utilises a wikispace:

RE: Innovative Learning and Teaching – Wikis

Visit The Presentation and supporting material

Date & Time Of Presentation : Wednesday 19th March 2008 at 2pm – 2.50pm

Instead of using powerpoint this session utilises del.icio.us:

Staff Development Session : Gaming & Simulation

Date & Time Of Presentation : Wednesday 19th March 2008 1.00 to 1.50pm