IVIMEDS Symposium Trinity College Dublin

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IVIMEDS Symposium Trinity College Dublin
eLearning and IVIMEDS at Queens University

• Kieran McGladeDeputy Director of Medical
  Education, QUB

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eLearning at QUB

• From cottage industry to professional activity
• Multi-professional input
• Context of increasing student numbers
• Blended learning important to emphasise in a
  clinical course
• Need a multi-faceted approach
• Use 3rd year and IVIMEDS as examples

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eLearning Ratings
Q1 an important learning resource Q2 Prefer
online to lectures Q3 Suits my learning
style Q4 Able to integrate eLearning with
clinical work on wards Q5 Provides me with a
lot of flexibility in my learning
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Students Comments

• Lectures can be correlated with the clinical
  examples seen on the wards allowing more in-depth
  study of individual problems.
• Drug kardex's are pretty useful along with the
  case based tutorials with answers.
• It is useful to have control over the lectures
  and to be able to go through them at your own
  pace since, quite often, in lectures, you tend to
  miss some of the important details either because
  you're sitting at the back or because of
  distractions
• the ability to rewind the lecture and pause it to
  ensure that the maximum benefit can be taken from
  the lecture is the most useful part of this
  learning material. A brilliant learning resource.
  

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IVIMEDS at QUB

• Involved in St Andrews Conference
• Joined 3 years ago
• eLearning Symposium 1 year ago
• 100 expressions of interest

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Approach to IVIMEDS

• Circulate Info and publicise
• Workshops and symposium
• Encourage individual staff
• BUT
• Insufficient resources for a sustained effort or
  for hand-holding
• Early difficulties with interfaces etc may have
  put staff off

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Some interface issues

• Library catalogue comprehensive
• Promises a lot
• But users in the past discovered much of it
  empty!
• More useful to use search facility
• But success will depend on high hit rate.

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Problems

• Critical mass required for uptake to expand.
• Overcoming the google phenomenon
• Early disappointments

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User Survey at QUB

• 86 emails of registered users
• 28 replies
• 3 biomedical science
• 3 dentistry
• 21 Medicine
• 1 pharmacy

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Current use of IVIMEDS - Opinions
11 respondents skipped this section
Q1 I found useful material to adopt in my
teaching. Q2 I found the site navigation
straightforward. Q3 I could not find what I
was looking for. Q4 Other material on the
site appeared very useful. Q5 I thought the
general quality of the learning resources was
high. Q6 - I felt the learning resources I
found were pitched at a suitable educational
level
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Opinions about using IVIMEDS in future
2 respondents skipped this section
Q1 Peer reviewed repository of learning objects
is a good thing Q2 Independent peer review is
important Q3 Would use IVIMEDS more if there
was more relevant material Q4 Would be willing
to contribute materials to IVIMEDS Q5 Would be
interested in an IVIMEDS user group
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User Comments

• need some help with elearning and web-based tools
  
• Very useful tool! Thanks.
• A question? Are the major book publishers who
  also have an online resource for their textbooks
  likely to collaborate with IVIMEDS?
• It's probably a great idea but it's just one
  thing too many to fit right now.

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User Comments

• Find navigating through it quite hard - I may
  need more training but i do wonder at the cost
  versus the usefulness now that everyone is more
  IT conscious and using lots of e-learning portals
  ! I think more transparency about the cost ,
  usage and usefulness should be discussed.

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User Comments

• early impressions are good, however limited
  material outside of cardiovascular section
• Not sure what I wanted or got out of it - I may
  have been looking for particular neuroanatomical
  images and (probably) failed to find them

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Conclusions

• IVIMEDS has a role to play but within a general
  eLearning provision
• A major sustained effort required to bring
  teaching staff on board
• Schools should aim at an import/export culture
• Importance of blended learning