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— This post was written by Elizabeth Seymour — (This post follows on from AC’s previous post on Email Overload). It has recently been reported that France had banned work emails after 6pm in an effort to stop working life intruding into personal life. Whilst this turned out to be not entirely true, (a labour…
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Motion capture is used for many media formats we all interact and view every day. From computer games to film, it offers a unique way of providing immersion and an improved sense of ‘believability’ into what you are looking at. This technology is improving all the time as it fundamentally requires good camera’s, sensors, a…
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— This post was written by Luke McGowan — I’m happy to confirm that we will be presenting a conference workshop at AMEE 2014 this year on The Use of Virtual Patients to Promote Inter-Professional Learning. The team working on this project are Myself (Luke McGowan, Senior Learning Technologist) Matthew Jerreat (Clinical Lead Derriford Education Facility)…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — The root cause of the e-mail overload problem is us, our powerful psychological tendencies. Fear and uncertainty and/or the need for instant gratification are powerful drivers for constantly checking one‟s e-mail. #1: Lack of prioritisation Fast response to important matters that require your decision. We tend…
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The quiz activity enables users to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, a list of which can be found further down in this article. The user can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set. Each attempt…
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QR codes are used in many ways, you see them on billboards, in shop windows, bus stops and even on salt packets! All of the above are usually for commercial purposes and simply link to a website. The most exciting a QR code gets is to enter a competition, which again is effectively a web…
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Following a few meetings to discuss progress and future developments, the decision has been taken to start gathering some early feedback from the project. There are a few key areas we want to target some basic gaming elements for this resource in order for the content to be as absorbing as possible and therefore engage…
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— This post was written by Tim Wheeler — In June 2013, following our 3D project for Dental Education Facilities, we were tasked with creating an innovative demo project using a 3D model of the inside of a mouth to be viewed in the Immersive vision theatre. Our demo was presented to various members of…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — Medical practitioners now collect a range of information about their professional practice for their appraisal and revalidation process. One component of this is multisource feedback (MSF) from patients and colleagues. Little is known about how GP appraisers interpret such feedback and use it within the doctor’s…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — The project aims to develop an innovative oral care educational experience, which includes three parts: 1) a 3-D film where participants will be able to ‘experience’ the story of teeth from inside the mouth using this powerful concept developed for the “Immersive Vision Theatre” (IVT) at…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — UK’s Cambridge Research Institute have developed a mobile game utilising gene microarrays that could actually help researchers find a cure for cancer. “Researchers use gene microarrays to look for regions of our genome that are frequently faulty in different cancers–a sign that they may be responsible for…
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On the 14th Jan PebblePad was updated successfully. This update features a number of bug fixes alongside some new features and enhancements to existing functionality. For full details of the update see the PP3 News Blog. A brief overview of some of the new features are given below: Feedback Manager – an additional option in…
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Neil Witt, Anne McDermott and Robert Stillwell are offering this seminar as part of the PedRIO Digital Innovation Group series. They will be presenting their findings in relation to Plymouth University students’ use of digital technology, services, Apps etc., which shows that confidence can be higher than competence. Additionally the team instigated a comparison study…
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Have you, or your students, ever been a victim of ‘Death by PowerPoint’? Research conducted by PedRIO and Learning Development suggests many of us have. Here is an opportunity to explore some new presentation tools in a supportive environment! DigiThings is a self-directed, peer-mentored online programme that aims to help staff with teaching and research responsibilities at…
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— This post was written by Arunangsu Chatterjee — This project will give students the opportunity to test each other’s knowledge on medicine and dentistry. Students will create multiple choice questions which other students can answer and record whether it was a useful and accurate question. Based on a scoring system the accurate questions will…
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Operating Procedures The following pages define operating procedures for computer-assisted assessments. They may change over the next few years in the light of experience and we would value comment from any staff and students involved in computer-assisted assessments. Computer-assisted assessment in this context refers to the delivery of assessment on a computer screen, student entry…
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NOTE: If you use these videos to undertake the introductory training for perception, you are agreeing to go through ALL the videos in order to have a certificate for each section. Once you have completed all the tutorials or attended a workshop we can provide you with a perception authoring account. Once you have completed all…
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To ensure both you and your students get a positive experience of using online assessment, it is recommended you follow the advice below. As with anything, plan what you want to do first. Plan out your questions and feedback and give yourself plenty of time to create these using the online assessment software. Ensure…
