The previous 2 workshops had proved so popular and effective at training many people how to create e-Learning materials, that we decided to run seperate workshops in the College of Medicine, and Kamuzu College of Nursing. This allowed us to highlight the benefits of e-Learning to many new people, as well as continuing to develop the skills of people who had attended previous workshops.
The College of Medicine workshop was primarily aimed at Clinical Staff who may not have had an opportunity to attend any of the previous workshops.
Workshop Aims
- Focus training on Clinical Staff as they have missed out on many of the previous workshops
- Workshops to be run as stand-alone training that is repeated during the week to cater of clinical staff time requirements
- Use Virtual Patients as an approach to creating resources in Quizmaker
- Basic training on Engage and Quizmaker
- Introduce clinical staff to how resources can be linked into the CMS
Virtual Clinic Workshop
Virtual Patients seemed to attract many people to the workshops, as they were easy to relate to their teaching. People seemed happy with their ability to quickly create Virtual Cases from simple scenarios when following the simplified guidelines to prevent overly complex cases from growing out of hand.
The focus was on creating fairly small linear cases instead of branching scenarios which prove to be a barrier to people when being introduced to the concept. People were quick to identify scenarios and clinical decisions and incorporate them into the Quizmaker software. In fact some people managed to create 3 well drafted VPs in the space of a day.
Engage & Quizmaker
Articulate Engage seemed popular with most people. The software seemed manageable for people to understand the concepts of the variety of resources. A morning session seemed a little short to create many meaningful resources.
Quizmaker sessions were preceded with a presentation from Helen Cameron on good question writing skills. This talk proved to be invaluable as it gave people a much deeper understanding of why use Multiple Choice Question types, and then were able to apply this to their new resources.
The software was quick to learn, and people were able to think of suitable questions for nearly all of the different question types. Participants were also able to think of new ways of adding questions into their Virtual Cases during this session, including the use of media to add more realism into the
