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mEducator:Multi-type Content Repurposing and

Sharing in Medical Education

Panos BamidisAssist. Prof. Medical Education Informatics

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKIMedical School

Lab of Medical InformaticsMedical Education Office

[email protected]

Thessaloniki, 19-20/05/2009 2

Summary

How mEducator was born The Problem Aims & objectives Content Systems … Work plan Deliverables & Milestones Clustering


How mEducator was born (I)


How mEducator was born (II)

eContentplus 2007 call for proposals: mEducator. Content sharing in Medical Education.

– University of Cyprus, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Democritus University of Thrace, University of Sheffield (USFD), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, University of Sophia-Antipolis, Medical University Plovdiv, Universita degli Studi di Catania, University of Helsinki, Paedagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Centre of International and European Economic Law

eContentplus 2008 call for proposals: mEducator. Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education


How mEducator was born (III)


mEducator

Funded by the – eContentplus 2008 programme,

Reference: ECP-2008-EDU-418006– European Commission, Information Society and Media

Directorate-General, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Best Practice Network Duration 3 years Start Date May 1st , 2009 Contract signed May 8th, 2009


mEducator Partners

1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR Coordinator, Technology provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination

2 University of Cyprus CY Technology Provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination

3 Democritus University of Thrace GR Content provider, Technology provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination

4 SITUSI Limited IR Content provider, Technology provider, Dissemination

5 Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca RO Technology provider, Pedagogical expert

6 Université Nice Sophia Antipolis FR Content provider, User

7 Medical University Plovdiv BG Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User

8 Università degli studi di Catania IT Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User/Evaluation

9 University of Helsinki FI Pedagogical expert, Evaluation

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St George's Hospital Medical SchoolUK Standardisation Body

Technology and Content Provider11

Succubus InteractiveFR

Content and Technology Provider

12

The Open UniversityUK

Technology Provider

13

Coventry University UK Content provider, Technology provider

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European Cervical Cancer Association FR User/Evaluation


The Problem


Medical Education

information processed facts & data

knowledge structured information with a purpose

understanding conscious knowledge, achievement of

explanation and expertise(implies experience & inquiring)


Contemporary Medical Education trends & approaches

alternative medical education methodologies:

– active, self-directed, student-centered, experiential, learning (attainment of both knowledge & skills)

– problem/case/task/inquiry/role/game/… based learning

technological support:– information technologies to harness information

explosion and support teaching and e-learning


Information Technology & Medical Education

information dissemination– electronic textbooks, atlases, medical & biological

databases, scientific press, …

achieving knowledge & understanding– creation, management and dissemination of digital teaching

file collections (e.g. virtual patients)

– self-evaluation tools and processes

– mediation of teacher-learner communication


Facts & Challenges in Medical Education

facts:

medical and biomedical information & knowledge(basic & core) is ever expanding

medical disciplines become increasingly overspecialized

medical educators become increasingly overspecialized

challenges:

how to provide expert knowledge to remote institutions

how to provide more audience to overspecialized educators located at remote institutions

how to communicate and exchange (not only knowledge but also) expertise in skills and competences


Sharing Medical Educational Material

develop and share individual educational modules

– self contained educational units

– with well specified educational objectives

– thematically targeted and overspecialized

– developed by overspecialized experts

– available for sharing over the web


mEducator scope The scope is to implement and critically evaluate existing standards and

reference models in the field of e-learning in order to enable specialized state-of-the-art medical educational content to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions.

Medical educational content within:– traditional instructional teaching – to active learning and experiential teaching/studying

Content types– from text to exam sheets– Algorithms– teaching files– computer programs (simulators or games)– interactive objects

virtual patients electronically traced anatomies

Covers a variety of topics.


A mEducator “Content item”

refers to educational material with a registered history of creation– linked with

specific educational goals and objectives learning outcomes educational contexts/settings,

– and is recommended with certain teaching methods & strategies types,

– while assessed/evaluated by certain means to accomplish the fulfilment of its predefined learning outcomes.

To this effect, a content item may be – a lecture in Powerpoint slides – podcast/vodcast of any length, – a Virtual Patient of a various size, – …

as long as it is properly accompanied by a clear description (metadata) of – what objectives it meets– what learning outcomes it envisages– how is it supposed to be taught– and how is it assessed (in other words accompanied by its assessment means).


mEducator objectives

identify and collect a critical mass of different types of health educational material such as:

examine to what extend existing standards like Healthcare LOM can address all types of health educational material listed above, and make respective recommendations for standards extensions.

examine to what extend existing standards like SCORM for Healthcare are adequate to support the packaging and seamless delivery of all these types of educational material.

examine possible extensions of existing ontological schemata, which describe the semantics of LOs (e.g. s-LOM ontology).

communicate and interact with standardization bodies like MedBiquitous Europe, IEEE, IMS, CEN, Health On the Net, HL7, etc to ensure adoption of recommendations/extensions into standards.


Solutions and particulars…

mEducator will test 2 solutions:– Web2.0 (mush-up etc)– Semantic Web Services

For each solution:– analyze policies and mechanisms for content providers, peers (academic

educators) and final users (medical students) to evaluate, rate, contribute to and renew content in content repositories.

– elaborate on issues of intellectual property rights of educational material, based on current peer property license practices.

– investigate and register the copyrights of content provided by the consortium and adopt the Creative Commons licences

– test the impact of true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment, and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date learning resources in each of the partners’ curricula.

– provide recommendations on how to implement interoperable educational content discovery and retrieval networks towards a consensus on the adoption and promotion of standard-based learning object sharing across Europe


mEducator Outcomes

A metadata scheme for description of all types of medical educational content, with reference to relevant standards (i.e. Healthcare LOM).

Recommendations on how to apply and/or extend the medical educational standard Healthcare LOM to address variable types of medical content, content re-purposing, and content sharing and exchange

Recommendations on best practices in implementing and using standardized commonplace technology and respective reference models for content medical educational content use, re-use and sharing.

Medical educational content of a vast variety of types, formally described, re-purposed and delivered along existing standards in loosely coupled isolated LCMSs and in federated LCMSs of the partners.

A simple IPR scheme for educational content provided and re-purposed in academic networks.


mEducator Learning Contexts

Educational Setting

Target User Type/Category

Learning Context / Curriculum

Level Comments

Medical Schools

Medical educators

Train the Trainers programs

Beginner, intermediate, advanced

Level refers to IT tools literacy; focus is placed on how to best create, repurpose, resolve IPR and easily describe content metadata

Medical Schools

Undergraduate medical students

MD degree Beginner, intermediate, advanced

Level refers to topic coverage; focus is shifted towards better achievement of learning outcomes by using all this shared content

Medical Schools

Postgraduate medical students

MSc degree intermediate, advanced

Level refers to topic coverage; focus is shifted towards better achievement of learning outcomes by using all this shared content

University Hospitals, Training Hospitals

Resident doctors, Medical Professionals

Continuous Medical Education (CME); Hospital Training Schemas

intermediate, advanced

Level refers to IT tools literacy; educational issues should address the need to find practical, highly specialised, and well re-purposed (localised) healthcare practice examples (protocols, guidelines)


mEducator User-generated Content

Web2.0 based PBL/CBL MEDTING Clinical Cases Interactions with Virtual

Patients Cases in the form of e-

traces Interactions with serious

medical games …

Personal Blogs

Class Discussion Forums

Class Wikis

Back

Healthcare Consumers and Clinicians Collaborate – Social Bookmarking

eTrace – Graphics annotation based lessons

Back

Triage Trainer

Medical data in a training scenario

Developed by TrueSim/VEGA group in collaboration with the SGI

Uses Virtual Patient concept

– Sophisticated and dynamic model required for detailed simulation of casualties

NanoMission

Developed by PlayGen, another SGI partner

Introduces nanomedical concepts in an interactive and engaging way

Requires data in formats that enable interactive and realistic interactions between user and biological system

Back


A likely starting approach…

Overall roadmap in describing a module using Healthcare SCORM, and SCORM editors and E-learning environments

Creation of LOM xml file

Creation of SCORM Package

by the use of a SCORM Editor

Import LOM xml file into SCORM Package (.ZIP)

SCORM Package

imsmanifest.xml

LOM XML file

Link

E-learning Environment

SCORM Run-Time

Environment

Learning Objects

Repository


Asset Metadata for Web 2.0 tools in SCORM

<resource>(“asset”)

<file>

<file>

<resource>(“SCO”)

<resource>(“asset”)

AssetpodcastMetadata

AssetvodcastMetadata

Assetwiki

Metadata

Assetbliki

Metadata

SCORMManifest

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Integration Schemes...

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. . .. . .

Healthcare SCORM

Healthcare LOM

Pocket SCORM Runtime

Environment

General Technical HealthCare Metadata

LocationString containing

physical location of Web 2.0 tool

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Healthcare LOM

general category

classification category

educational category

Project Plan

Work Package & Labour Effort Overview

partner institute

1partner institute

4

partner institute

3

partner institute

2

partner institute 5

isolated servers & manual

search/retrieve

usual approach

partner institute

1

partner institute 4

partner institute

3

partner institute

2

partner institute 5

service orientedfederated

architecture

mEducator work…


Solution 1

WP4: Exchanging Content via “mash-up” technology and WEB2.0 tools for loosely coupled isolated LCMSs

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Solution 2:WP5 Exchanging content via SWS Technologies for federated LCMSs

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Preprocess For Solution 2

Learning Data Layer

Learning Metadata Standard Layer Learner

38M1.6

A2.1

mEducator metadata description scheme definition, implementation and testing

Selec

t and

Orga

nized

prov

ided

cont

ent

A1.1Content sharingfunctionalities

Define repurposedcontent process

IPR issues resolved for new content

4

3 months

9

8 months

4 -1 months

12

M2.4StartProject

Selection criteriafor new Content

M2.1

4

M3.13 mon

ths

1

M2.3IPR issues resolved for provided content

IPR issues resolved for re-purposed content

1 month*

Organizeproject team

3 -1 months **

6 -1 months

3-1 months 6 -3 months

IPR issues resolvedfor all content

8 -5 months

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M5.2Development of federatedarchitecture based on SWS

10 months

Architecture Based on SWS

Data Abstraction

Process Metadata Abstraction

Semantic Process Model Layer

Semantic Learning Process Model Layer

Learning Metadata Standard Layer

mapping

mapping

Learning Designer

Learner

Learning Data Layer

Semantic Web Service Layer

uses

mapping

Learning Service Provider

Web Service Layer

mapping

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SWS Infrastructure: Ontology Stack

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Ontology Stack: LPMO Mappings

Luisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use casesLuisa Partner Ontologies as used in specific use cases

HealthCareLOM

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Ontology Stack: LPMO Mappings

E-Learning Metadata Standard Ontologies to translate and map between different standards

HealthCareLOM

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SWS Environment

Learner Learning Designer

WSMO Library

LUISA User Interface Standard-compliant E-Learning Runtime Environments

WSMO Goals WSMO Services

WSMO Ontologies WSMO Mediators

SOAP Handler

Standard-compliant E-Learning Authoring Interfaces

Learner

Invocation Engine

Mediation Handler

Choreography Interpreter

Orchestration Interpreter

LUISA

WS Library (External)

WS Library (External)

Learning Metadata (External)

Learning Data (External)

Learning Data (External)

M5.2

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M2.4

Development of federated architecture based on SWS Evaluation of metadatabased on SWS

Apply mEducatormetadata scheme

M3.4

M5.3

Solution 1-2 content discovery/retrieval,use and re-purposing

M2.6mEducator contentdeployment on individualpartner’s LCMSs

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17

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7 -4 months 5 -3 months

10 months 9 -5 months

9 months

Report on problems andrecommendationson 2nd solution

M5.44 -2 months


Standards + multilingual issues…

Clustering with ASPECT


Project Milestones – Year 1

M.1.1. Project is initialized, team and collaboration tools for project initiation are set up

M 3

M.9.1. Quality assurance plan for project procedures and deliverables has been agreed upon and finalized

M 3

M.1.2. Functional requirements for medical educational content sharing have been layed out

M 4

M.3.1. Reasons and procedures for repurposing content have been formally defined and aggreed upon

M 6

M.2.1. Provided content has been selected and organized - selection rules for new content have been layed out

M 7

M.2.2. IPR issues resolved for provided and new content M 9

M.3.2. IPR issues resolved for re-purposed content M 9

M.3.3. Metadata scheme for re-purposed content M 10

M.2.3. mEducator metadata content description scheme has been described, implemented and tested on pilot content (provided and re-purposed)

M 12



M.3.4. Re-purposed content is described in mEducator metadata scheme

M 15

M.4.1. Functional requirements and scenaria of use for solution 1 have been described

M 15

M.5.1. Functional requirements and scenaria of use for solution 2 have been described

M 15

M.2.4. mEducator content has been described with mEducator metadata scheme and deployed on individual partner's LCMSs

M 17

M.7.1. Dissemination of partial project results on the web and on conferences has been initiated - at least one journal paper under submission

M 18

M.4.2. Solution 1 is developed M 22M.5.2 Solution 2 is developed M 22



M.4.3. Solution 1 is deployed M 26M.5.3 Solution 2 is deployed M 26M.4.4. Solution 1 is evaluated and a final recommendation on problems and

best practices are produced - M 28

M.5.4 Solution 2 is evaluated and a final recommendation on problems and best practices are produced -

M 28

M.6.1. The proposed two solutions for content sharing have been critically compared

M 30

M.6.2. Final mEducator recommendation towards standards and best practices completed

M 34

M.7.2. Clustering events and workshops have been realized, scientific announcements/publications accomplished -

M 36

M.8.1. Sustainability plan has been developed M 36 M.9.2: Final report completed M 36M.9.3: Final Financial Statement completed M 36


List of deliverables - Year 1

D.9.1 Communication and Dissemination Plan 2

D.1.1 Project public/private website 3

D.9.2 Quality assurance plan for mEducator project 3

D.1.2. Study report on content sharing functional requirements 4

D.3.1 Report on mEducator content re-purposing: definition of re-purposing reasons and procedures

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D.9.3 Six-month Progress Report 1 6

D.2.1 Analysis and description of Healthcare LOM 8

D.2.4 mEducator IPR resolution best practice guidelines 9

D.3.2 mEducator IPR resolution best practice guidelines for re-pursposed content 9

D.3.3 mEducator metadata scheme extensions for describing re-purposing. 10

D.2.2 Public mEducator metadata content description scheme and conformance metrics 12

D.9.4 Six-month Progress Report 2 12

D.9.5 Annual Report 1 12

D.9.6. Pre-financing Request 12

D.2.3 mEducator implementation documentation and best practice guidelines 12, 15



D.4.1 Functional analysis and scenario of use for content sharing via loosely coupled LCMS’s 15

D.5.1 Functional analysis and scenaria of use for content sharing via federated LCMSs architecture

15

D.2.5 mEducator content on partner’s LCMSs 17

D.9.7. Six-month Progress Report 3 18

D.4.2 Development and deployment of Content Sharing Solution 1: Loosely coupled content repositories via mashup and web2.0 based brokerage mechanisms.

22

D.5.2 Development and deployment of Content Sharing Solution 2: Federated LCMSs via semantic web services

22


D.9.9. Annual Report 2 24



D.4.3 Report on Solution 1 (Pilot Content Discovery and sharing, evaluation of mEducator metadata adequacy and content sharing: Strengths, Weaknesses and Problems Encountered)

26

D.5.3 Report on Solution 2 (Pilot Content Discovery and sharing, evaluation of mEducator metadata adequacy and content sharing: Strengths, Weaknesses and Problems Encountered)

26

D.4.4 Report on problems, recommendations and best practices for solution 1 28

D.5.4 Report on problems, recommendations and best practices for Solution 2 28

D.6.1 Report on Solution 1 vs. Solution 2 and recommendations on best practice (for content description metadata, content description procedures, content repurposing, IPR for re-purposed content)

30


D.7.1 Core documentation, e.g. teacher/student guides, re-purposing guide, technical manuals, etc. 32

D.8.1 Sustainability of content and of individual content sharing solutions 33

D.6.2 Report on recommendations towards a standards-based reference model for sharing educational content in healthcare

34

D.7.2 Content in project websites, wiki and blog 34

D.7.3 Dissemination activities report & material (List and copies of conference/journal papers, Dissemination events and/or workshops, Results of participation in clustering events)

24 & 36

D.8.2 Exit and sustainability model for mEducator 36


D.9.13. Final report 36



mEducator Clustering

clustering activities will focus on the following key areas:– Technical standards for Education– Multi-type content repurposing and enrichment – Intellectual property – Social computing, Web2.0 technologies, Medicine/Health 2.0 – Semantic Web Services and Ontologies Web3.0 technologies, Medicine/Health 3.0 – Pedagogic strategies – Thematic (Medical) areas

clustering with standardisation bodies:– MedBiquitous– Health On the Net foundation (HON)– Health Level 7 (HL7)– CEN/ISSS WSLTs)– IMS GLOBAL

EU Projects– ASPECT– iCOPER– eViP– …


Vielen Dank ! Thank you! Grazie ! Merci! Gracias! Ευχαριστώ !

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Panos BamidisAssist. Prof. Medical Education Informatics

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKIMedical School

Lab of Medical InformaticsMedical Education Office

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