6 November 2013: Assessment of dispositional behaviours: The case of Otago Virtual Hospital
Presenters: Swee-Kin Loke, Phil Blyth and Judith Swan (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Hosted by Dr Mathew Hillier, Teaching and Educational Development Institute, University of Queensland, Australia starting 07:00AM UST/GMT. Duration 53 minutes.
Virtual worlds are suitable environments to enact scenario-based learning (SBL). The Otago Virtual Hospital is one such virtual world where medical students role-playing as junior doctors provide medical care to virtual patients in realistic scenarios. However, the assessment of SBL in medical education has either been inadequate or incongruent. In this webinar, the presenters described a conceptual framework to more validly assess dispositional behaviours (e.g., compassion, open-mindedness) in scenario-based activities and provided an empirical illustration from a case study conducted with 11 students. The ideas presented are applicable to educators with an interest in assessing SBL, particularly in the fields of medical, legal, and business education. The Otago Virtual Hospital located on the OpenSim based New Zealand Virtual World Grid (NZVWG).
Further information
- Slide Set: TA_webinar_6_nov_2013_Swee-Kin_Loke.pdf
- Session chat log: TA_webinar_6_nov_2013_chat_log.txt
- Otago Virtual Hospital information: http://ovh.otago.ac.nz/
- Contact - Swee-Kin at Otago: http://hedc.otago.ac.nz/hedc/about-us/our-people/?uid=loksw95p
- Short 2 min video demo: http://bit.ly/xZ0Net
- AJET Paper: Loke, S. K., Blyth, P. & Swan, J. (2012). In search of a method to assess dispositional behaviours: The case of Otago Virtual Hospital. In M. J. W. Lee, B. Dalgarno & H. Farley (Eds), Virtual worlds in tertiary education: An Australasian perspective. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 28(Special issue, 3), 441-458. http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet28/loke-1.html
- Conference Paper: Loke, S.-K., Blyth, P., & Swan, J. (2012). Student views on how role-playing in a virtual hospital is distinctively relevant to medical education. In M. Brown, M. Hartnett, & T. Stewart (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite) Conference: Future Challenges/Sustainable Futures, (pp. 565-574). Palmerston North, New Zealand: Massey University. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/wellington12/2012/images/custom/loke,_swee-kin_-_student.pdf
- Conference Paper: Blyth, P., Loke, S. K., & Swan, J. (2010). Otago Virtual Hospital: medical students learning to notice clinically salient features. In C.H. Steel, M.J. Keppell, P. Gerbic & S. Housego (Eds.), Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future. Proceedings ascilite Sydney 2010 (pp. 108-112). http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/procs/Blyth-concise.pdf
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