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co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education: mEducator Final Presentation The mEducator Consortium http://www.meducator.net co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Part A. Introduction – Project Overview 2 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Project Video The project final video is in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5psY48kaQ 3 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme What is mEducator? A Best Practice Network (BPN) co-funded by the – – Run between May 2009 – April 2012 As a BPN, it developed and compared two different solutions/frameworks – – 4 eContentplus 2008 programme of the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems Contract Reference: ECP-2008-EDU-418006 Solution 1 = mEducator2.0 (WP4) Solution 2 = mEducator3.0 (WP5) Scope: to draw best practice recommendations mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Partners 5 1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR Coordinator, Technology 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 MEDTING Medical Exchange 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 10 St George's Hospital Medical School UK Standardisation Body, Pedagogy Expert, Technology and Content Provider 11 Succubus Interactive 12 The Open University 13 Coventry University UK Content provider, Technology provider 14 European Cervical Cancer Association FR User/Evaluation FR UK provider, Content provider, Content and Technology Provider Technology Provider mEducator Final Presentation User/Evaluation, co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Medical Education: facts & challenges medical and biomedical information and knowledge is ever expanding medical disciplines become increasingly overspecialised medical education includes both theoretical instruction and clinical apprenticeship thus, medical education is 6 based on a broad range of learning contents, which, nowadays, in its most part, is also available and distributed digitally mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme How did people share before Usually exposed individual repositories (instead of allowing distributed searches) Case of search engines (e.g. Google): – data were restricted to specific kinds of documents (such as HTML, PDF… i.e. did not harvest metadata as such) Minimal sharing mechanisms… Minimal interoperability between systems… Peer collaboration ? 7 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme A need for a different approach? There is a wealth of structured (learning) data out there – – – – needs to be harvested and processed … to allow users for more “federated searches”… … across repositories that are spread around the Web… Calls for engaging and investing in semantics, social collaboration & social dynamics… 8 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator central idea discover, retrieve, use, rate, re-use and re-purpose educational content irrespective of any Learning Management System use Target 1: providers and users of such content: – – expert instructors (academics / health professionals) students / learners Target 2: technical providers of educational (health care) solutions 9 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Objectives we met provided mechanisms for content publishing, discovery, & retrieval analysed policies and mechanisms for content evaluation, rating, renewal and repurposing elaborated on intellectual property rights for educational material tested the impact of true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment, and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date learning resources provided recommendations on how to implement interoperable educational content discovery and retrieval networks 10 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme How did we make this to work Formation an active Groups: – – – – – Adapted to the state-of-the-art technology Followed 1st annual review recommendations Content and platforms shaped along developments Prepared well-thought evaluation plan (e.g. workshops) – IPR expert Group Technical Reference Group (TRG) – schema & standardisation Attention Metadata TRG subgroup Pedagogic Reference Group (PRG) Exit & Sustainability Reference Group (ESRG) … the notion of specific quality descriptors & evaluation criteria Planned impact in several communities of practice 11 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Part B. Work performed 12 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Content Preparation & Standards Implementation Objectives Content: – – – – Metadata Description Scheme – – – 13 Selection Organisation Selection Criteria IPR Deliverables D.2.1 Analysis and description of Healthcare LOM D.2.2 Public mEducator metadata content description scheme and conformance metrics D.2.3.a – D.2.3.b Implementation documentation and best practice guidelines Development, Application to D.2.4 IPR resolution best practice provided content, Deployment in LCM’s guidelines mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Content Preparation & Standards Implementation 14 Outcomes Standardised Format for medical resources In accordance with content selection criteria Extensions to existing standards Adaptable to different learning management systems IPR Guidelines Workflows Clustering with Standardisation Bodies Best practices on describing mEducator content Road Map for future developers and implementers mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Content Enrichment, Repurposing & Evolution Objectives – – – – – 15 Definition, Reasons for repurposing IPR in repurposed content Repurposing provided content Incorporation of repurposing in the structure of metadata description Scheme Description of repurposed content via metadata description scheme Deliverables D.3.1 Report on mEducator content repurposing, definition of repurposing reasons and procedures D.3.2 mEducator IPR resolution best practice guidelines for repurposed content D.3.3 Metadata scheme extensions for describing repurposing D.3.4 Repurposed pilot content described in mEducator metadata description scheme mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Content Enrichment, Repurposing & Evolution Outcomes – Metadata scheme “modules” for repurposing o Classes, Properties – Controlled vocabularies for repurposing types – IPR Guidelines Workflows for repurposed Content – Repurposing Case studies in mEducator content – Best practices out of repurposing case studies 16 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Intellectual Property & Copyright Intellectual property refers to all creations of the human mind Copyright legislation protects the interests of creators by giving them exclusive rights over their creations. Most copyright laws state that the author/owner of rights has the right to “authorize or prevent” certain acts: - Reproduction of the work (making copies) - Public performance of the work - Broadcasting or other communication to the public - Translation of the work; - Adaptation of the work 17 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Open movement & Open Educational Resources (OER) 1980’s Open Source Software: GNU General Public License (GPL) designed to ensure that the software produced will remain free, and promote the production of more and more free software focuses on communicating authorized use OER movement: let authors, scientists, artists, and educators mark their work with the freedoms they want it to carry. Open Educational Resources (OER) - educational resources - freely available to use, remix, redistribute - respond to the needs of educators and students for open, adaptable resources - emphasise on transformative possibilities of digital resources 18 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Why do we need a license in mEducator Legally, mEducator is a “Hybrid form of Digital Library” [ data and metadata, human contribution, IT ] with the aim to organize, manage, make available to (open access to) knowledge and information Risk of violation of Copyright Hyperlinks considered reproductions (in some countries) It cannot be considered “private use” Legal and ethical issue mEducator follows the EC initiatives for open access 19 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator & OER www.creativecommons.org The adoption of the Creative Commons licensing model in the mEducator project has an impact on learning. It builds on OER, to create a global culture of learning. Liability for Copyright issues regarding works submitted to and used through mEducator considers the Greek law Authors have control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. Authors must consent in advance to let users copy, use, distribute, transmit , display the work publicly & to make derivative works in any digital medium for any purpose, with proper attribution of authorship Applicable to all mEducator content types No cost Authors control the use of their work Opposes to the default ‘All Rights Reserved’ (gives freedoms) Provide metadata labels 20 Suitable for online content co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Workflows & Guidelines All guidelines available through ... the animated web tool 21 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme What is Repurposing? ‘...transforming a learning •Repurposing to different languages resource •Repurposing to different cultures initially created for a specific •Repurposing for different pedagogical approaches So, what does itinmean? •Repurposing for different educational educational purpose alevels specific •Repurposing for different disciplines or professions educational context intypes order to fit a •Repurposing to different content •Repurposing for different technology different new purpose in the same •Repurposing for people with different abilities content context’ or•Repurposing differentto educational educational •Changes in the content itself As defined in deliverable mEducator D3.1 Content Repurposing: Definition of Repurposing Reasons & Procedures 22 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Repurposing Digital Traces 23 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Repurposing Virtual Scenarios 24 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Repurposing Workflow 25 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme: Timeline Provision of a standardised format for the description of medical educational resources so that they can be shared, excanged, searched A. and retrieved. Scope 26 1. Identification of critical Represenation of concepts: Reuse concepts from critical concepts and existing standards asAchievements well as their relationships in Current propose new ones the domain of medical 2. Controlled Vocabularies and healthcare A metadata description scheme for education medical educational resources that is compatible with Linked Data Design SurveyPrinciples. Conceptual B. Medical Education - RDF Controlled Model Ontology Focus Groups Framework vocabularies C. Clustering for Attention Metadata D. Enrichment Metadata Identify users’ perceptions and preferences in terms of educational content sharing in medicine and related fields. Graph – based representation of metadata information Instance File Machine-processible format (XML), compliant with the ontology mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme Conceptual Framework Educational Discipline Language Discipline Specialty Independent Educational Context Information Teaching Learning Instructions Educational Level Medical Identifier* Resource Educational Outcomes Rights* Assessment Methods Date of Resource Educational Prerequisites Creation Educational Objectives Language of Resource Repurposing Creator of Repurposing Parent Citation Information ( Title, Identifier) Repurposing Description Repurposing Context 27 Language Dependent Information Title * Metadata Language* Metadata Creator* Description* Subject* Technical Description Quality MediaType ResourceType Accompanied Identifier Accompanied Description Metadata Creation Date* mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator metadata Scheme Controlled Vocabularies 28 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator metadata Scheme Controlled Vocabularies 29 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator metadata Scheme Controlled Vocabularies 30 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator metadata Scheme Controlled Vocabularies 31 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator metadata Scheme Controlled Vocabularies 32 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator metadata Scheme Controlled Vocabularies 33 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator metadata Scheme Controlled Vocabularies 34 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme RDF Model • RDF: Framework to describe resources on the web • Statements about resources • Uses a recommended XML serialization • It is a W3C Recommendation and part of the W3C's Semantic Web Activity Medical Resource 35 creator Johnathan Round http://purl.org/meducator/resourceType#virtualPatient mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme Ontology - Overview Classes – – – Properties – – 12 main mEducator defined classes 5 imported classes from external Ontologies Complementary Classes ( Enrichment, Clustering) Around 30 mEducator defined ones 8 properties from existing standards Support of multiplicity and union of Ranges Support of metadata multilinguality 36 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme Ontology Structure 37 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata SchemeInstance Example Example: http://www.meducator.net/mdc/example.rdf 38 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme Metadata Multilinguality Challenge Addressed – Adopted Approach – – – 39 Translation of metadata in many languages in a way that the translated files are compliant with mEducator metadata scheme mandatory fields to be included Class mdc:MultiLanguageAttributes to encapsulate the language dependent fields Property mdc:hasMultiLanguageAttributes to link the aforementioned Class with the mEducator Ontology Advantage: Avoid information redundancy by keeping all translated information in one file mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme Metadata Multilinguality Further Design Considerations Translation of controlled vocabularies (implemented in SKOS) in various languages Use De-referencing URI/IRI's Ontology localisation Provision of a property i.e. mdc:translatedIn that will link “similar” metadata instances in various languages 40 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme WP2 – Attention metadata (AM) Goal: modeling user activity within the content sharing platforms to provide recommendations Proposal: extend the ATOM schema Advantages: – – – More intuitive and richer than other AM schemas (e.g., CAM) Easily extensible AAIR mapping (Atom Activity Streams in RDF Vocabulary) designed for social web sites to be used as starting point 41 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme AM: proposed extension mEducator RDF extensions - - 42 Activity on mdc:Resource (download, play, share, rate, tag, bookmark, search) Query Activity Activity on the resources obtained in the query results mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Web service architecture for an AM-based recommendation system The Web service is reachable at: http://151.97.9.186:81/AMRecommender/RecommendService.svc 43 Activity monitor and Recommender interface implemented in Solution 1 (mEducator 2.0) mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Content 44 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator “content” refers to any type of educational material with a registered history of creation and evolution Is linked with – – – comes recommended with – 45 specific educational goals and objectives learning outcomes educational contexts/settings – certain types of teaching methods & strategies and/or assessment mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Medical learning content types conventional content – content types unique in medical education – teaching files, virtual patients, evidence based medicine forms, objective standard clinical examinations, anatomical atlases, … alternative educational content types – lecture notes, books, exam questions, practicals, scientific papers, graphs, images, videos, … reflecting active learning techniques and new technologies: didactic problems, wikis, forums, web traces, … user generated content – reflecting user interaction with learning content 46 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator content glimpses mEducator Platforms mEducator 2.0 MELINA+ MetaMorphosis+ Linked Labyrinth + Spring School MEI2012 Conference federated LCMSs Melina+ Tube Miles+ total items 703 648 420 261 7 65 N/A 18031 10 mEducator Content repurposed items rated reviewed 40 209 188 53 83 N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A 0 97 0 0 0 0 47 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Media types: snapshot of MELINA+ Other * 49 Wiki 8 Interactive Learning Environment 10 Multimedia Slide presentation 204 Video 84 Image 136 Text 243 0 48 * Audio, ebook, virtual patient, blog, etc . Media type is a multivalue field 50 100 150 200 250 mEducator Final Presentation 300 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme MELINA+ : Rating and reviews of resources MELINA+ Reviewed resources 53 Rated resources 188 MELINA+ Total resources 646 0 49 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 51 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Serious game repurposing definitions Serious games – Serious games as a term has been around for over 40 years. in 1968 Clark Abt called his book “Serious Games”. His definition of such games was that they: – “have an explicit and carefully thought-out educational purpose and are not intended to be played primarily for amusement. This does not mean that serious games are not, or should not be, entertaining.” (Abt 1970, p9). 52 Repurposing Repurposing refers to the changing of a learning resource initially created for a specific educational context, to a new educational context (or contexts), and should be distinguished from reuse, which refers to the use of the same learning resources without any changes . mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Repurposing a serious game Need – – – Issues – – – SG are very expensive and time consuming to be developed Very difficult to be repurposed because of the cost and the technical skills needed Educational content repurposing is a very popular activity between educators Access to the source code Understand what’s happening Edit and recompile the source code Solution – – Externalize the « scenario » part of a game into a separate file Create a graphical representation of the scenario 53 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEditor 54 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Evaluation of the tool Internal workshop in December ‘11 in Thessaloniki Creation from scratch of a medical game using the tool – Half a day to decide what the game should be about, and to simulate a « hands-on » on how the tool works – Another half day to implement the game using the tool (based on existing artworks and existing game engine) mEducator Spring School 2012 – – – – Participants were presented the mEditor It’s use was explained Participants had a 30 min hands-on session repurposing a game Filled in a questionnaire 55 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Solution 1 (mEducator 2.0) www.mEducator2.net mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Solution1 overview: Objectives Conduct content provider and user research Evaluation of the solution: web platform and mashups Report on problems and produce Best Practices of the usage of web 2.0 and mashup technologies Take advantage of the available MEDTING functionalities 57 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Deliverables Produced D4.1 Functional analysis and scenario of use for content sharing via loosely coupled LCMSs. D4.2 Development and deployment of Content Sharing Solution 1 D4.3 Report on Solution 1 (Pilot Content Discovery and sharing, evaluation of mEducator metadata adequacy and content sharing: Strengths, Weaknesses and Problems, recommendations and best practices) 58 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Achievements 59 Build upon the outcomes of work re the content Fully functional and usable web 2.0 platform Mashup solution has worked in the different environments/LCMSs Implementation of the mEducator schema and support for extra features Powerful search to easily find and filter learning resources Integrate with mEducator3.0 and other websites to import LR Integrate with the Attention Metadata services mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Solution 1 – mEducator 2.0 - Overview Modular Web 2.0 Platform using XHTML and CSS2/3 Responsive AJAX user interfaces Modules exported as mashup components to be used within other web platforms Social and collaboration functionalities Powered by MEDTING framework and search engine 60 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator 2.0 - Architecture mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator 2.0: System Features 62 Full support of the mEducator schema and all the updates and add-ons Multilingual platform (available in all the consortium languages) IPR Licensing Support Medical Ontology support (SNOMED, MESH) Comments, rating, blogs, forum, collaboration groups, user profiles, geolocation, etc. Automatic translation mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator 2.0: System Features II Scalable, responsive and robust system AJAX user interaction with animations and user feedback messages Fulltext search engine with real-time indexing, results ranking Attention Metadata activity integration to improve system usability and user satisfaction “Mashup-able” platform 63 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator 2.0: Evaluation & Tests UNS report on problems and deficiencies Workshops in AMEE 2011 Workshop in Spring School / MEI 2012 Experts Reviews Workshops by Catania (Platform) Experts Reviews Workshops by SGUL (Mashups) Platform stress tests and benchmarks by CU Best practices on D4.3 64 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator 2.0: Mashups (UTCN LCMS) 65 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Video demo See the YouTube mEducatorproject channel 66 mEducator Final Presentation Content Sharing Solution 2: Exchanging content via Semantic Web Service technologies for federated LCMSs co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Aims and objectives Development of federated architecture based on a Semantic Web Services (SWS)-oriented application framework for content sharing. Pilot content discovery/retrieval, use and repurposing in content sharing. Evaluation of metadata and discovery/retrieval adequacy of content sharing. 68 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Deliverables D.5.1: Functional analysis and scenaria of use for content sharing via federated LCMSs architecture. D.5.2: Development and deployment of Content Sharing Solution 2: Federated LCMSs via semantic web services. D.5.3: Report on Solution 2 (Pilot Content Discovery and sharing, evaluation of mEducator metadata adequacy and content sharing: Strengths, Weaknesses and problems, recommendations and best practices) 69 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 1st approach Distributed and heterogeneous LR metadata mEducator RDF LR Linked LR 70 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Challenges 1. Heterogeneous models for LR metadata representation, e.g. OAI-DC, Dublin core and LOM. 2. Heterogeneous interfaces for accessingLR, e.g. API, services, and their different input and output schema. 3. Data level integration and connection to Linked Open Data cloud. 71 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Linked Services 72 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Main components Semantic search & annotation of educational services via Web browser and dedicated API http://smartlink.open.ac.uk/ Service invocation and lifting engine mEducator RDF repository Interaction APIs 73 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Outcomes (1/3) 10 Learning resource metadata pools accessible through APIs/services have been integrated. 74 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Outcomes (2/3) http://ckan.net/package/s martlink > 2000 triples so far > 300 links to iServe APIs used by several applications http://ckan.net/package/med ucator > 35000 triples so far > 1000 links to DBpedia & Bioportal ontologies APIs used by 4 applications 75 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Outcomes (3/3) • Dynamic and manual data enrichment to build external link to LOD • 2 modes of clustering: • Structural: based on joint references (e.g. from DBpedia) => collaboration with CNR ITD • Linguistic similaritybased => exploratory search collaboration with UNICT 76 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Solution 2 (mEducator 3.0): 4 Web Instantiations were developed 77 www.meducator3.net mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 2nd approach Multiple instances: – Each organization should be able to independently deploy and control its own instantiation of mEducator Keep the data on the instantiation and federate search and discovery 78 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Search federation The ability to search in a collection of datasets using a single endpoint and getting uniform results Issue: each platform implements searching functionality differently Solution: SPARQL 1.1 federation: efficient, optimised implementation 79 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Outcome REST Wrapper Client Query builder Joseki sameAs Links SPARQL External dataset Instance #1 Instance #N Instance #M 80 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Silk Framework discovers relationships between data items within different Linked Data sources. Data publishers can use Silk to set RDF links from their data sources to other data sources on the Web. [Freie Universität Berlin] http://www.meducator3.net /melinaplus/tags/dementia owl:same As http://linkedlifedata.com/res ource/umls/id/C0497327 81 mEducator Final Presentation mEducator 3.0 Instantiations MELINA+ MILES+ LL+ Metamorphosis+ co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme MELINA+ Medical Education LINked Arena MELINA+ is one of the implementations of the mEducator3.0 technologies. A content management system for medical educational resources. Based on Drupal, an open source content management system. mEducator Final 83 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme MELINA+ Supports Creation and description of learning resources User registration/authentication Advanced search capabilities Commenting system Rating system Bookmarking system Blogs and posts mEducator Final 84 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme MELINA+ Advanced features Core RDF support Embedded SPARQL endpoint DBpedia spotlight annotation Social learning collaboration Quality process control for learning resources Single sign on via WEBID module mEducator Final 85 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Medical Inter-Linked Educational Space A Learning Content Management System Based on moodle 2.0 moodle core changes – – – – Description of Resources Rating of Resources Messaging (including User Collaboration) User profile 86 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme moodle blocks – – FOAF profile Geotagging Educational Resources moodle Repositories – – mEducator Sesame Store mEducator 3.0 87 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Accompanied Resources from Clinical Trials and Pubmed User Collaboration Educemiology of Medical Education Resources MILES+ D2R server – SPARQL Endpoint 88 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme LL+ Linked Labyrinth + LL+ is an open source online activity modelling system that allows users to build interactive ‘game-informed’ educational activities such as virtual patients, simulations, games, mazes and algorithms Based on OpenLabyrinth (OL) 89 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme LL+ In addition to OL, LL+ provides: – – – – – – – mEducator Metadata Entry Form Advanced Search Rating Resources Searching VPs & Educational Resources in other LCMSs and Repositories mEducator Metadata Export Mechanism (beyond MVP standard compliance) Repurposing Perspective SPARQL endpoint through a dedicated D2R Server 90 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Created based on ELGG open source social networking platform Complete social environment – – – – – Users management Resources management Users collaboration (creation of groups, blogs, forum) Sharing of resources Resources rating 91 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme ELGG modified to provide functionalities for – – – – describing resources in mEducator metadata format enrich resources through connections to different ontologies based on BioPortal API describe repurposing activities visualize repurposing connections between resources 92 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Three main types of searches implemented – – – Semantic search over enriched resources Semantic distributed search Exploratory search based on semantic links between the resources 93 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Video demos See the YouTube mEducatorproject channel 94 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Project Evaluation work 95 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Evaluation Objectives and Deliverables Objectives Evaluation The critical comparison of the proposed two solutions for sharing and repurposing medical content The reference model Based on the evaluation, creating recommendations towards a standards based reference model Deliverables D.6.1. Critical comparison of Solution 1 and Solution 2 and recommendations on best practice (for content description metadata, content description procedures, content repurposing, IPR scheme for re-purposed content) D.6.2. 96 Recommendations towards a standards-based reference model for sharing educational content in healthcare mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Evaluation framework 97 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Methodological highlights Technical critical comparison - Grid based on initial functional requirements, Benchmarking Perfomed by mEducator partners not involved in development Scenario based evaluation: data collection - Online questionnaires - Evaluation workshops observers Expert reviews Case studies + screen recordings Focus groups - Data analysis: • within solutions • pooled across solutions and instantiations 98 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 99 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Target users and evaluation scenarios Target users 1. Student 2. Teacher Activity 100 3. Health care Professional 4. Patient 5. Technical staff * A. Sharing A1. Context, Operations, Content A2. Context, Operations, Content A3. Context, Operations, Content N/A N/A B. Search/ Retrieval B1. Context, Operations, Content B2. Context, Operations, Content B3. Context, Operations, Content [Omitted: B4. Context, Operations, Content] N/A C. Repurposing C1. Context, Operations, Content C3. Context, Operations, Content N/A N/A D. Institutional adoption N/A C2. Context, Operations, Content D2. Context, Operations, Content N/A N/A D5. Context, Operations A. Operations (steps): annotate, license (rate) B. Operations (steps): search, rate C. Operations (steps): search, annotate, license, rate D. Operations (steps): the tasks/process of modifying local systems to integrate mEducator solutions into the existing structure (see scenario SD5) * Librarians, LCMS experts, etc. mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Main outcomes Critical comparisons of the two content sharing solutions Recommendations for content description (metadata), IPRs, repurposing, and institutional adoptability Application to Medbiquitous for standardization of the mEducator data model based on semantic web standards and the mEducator vocabularies A reference model that identifies the processes and data involved in medical educational content sharing and relates them to existing (or to be developed) standards 103 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator 2.0 vs mEducator 3.0 Centralised repository Data and presentation are tightly integrated Technically easier to maintain and explain to users (teachers and students) Basic functions (searches, descriptions) easy to integrate trough mashups Requires content importing to a centralised database Distributed semantically linked repositories data and presentation are separated, with a number of APIs handling data interaction and the different instantiations handling the presentation more open, allows easier integration/connection of new internal or external repositories. Allows enrichment and linking 105 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Evaluating institutional adoptability Case studies that highlight the characteristics of integrating mEducator solutions to local context – – Technical implications Pedagogical implications Deliverables D.6.1 and 6.2 provide examples and recommendations to promote taking into account the institutional areas relevant to the development of novel content sharing services. 106 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Key findings 107 Harmonization of content sharing solution interfaces should be pursued: design solutions do affect overall user acceptance Some problems require non technical solutions, such as training on notions of IPR and repurposing. Use of Controlled vocabularies is a best practice, provided that they are manageable in size, can be visually scanned rapidly inspectionable/apprehendible Best ways to handle notions of quality of the content are still unclear (stamps, formal reviews, inference from other measures) but the need for quality control is strongly felt The advantages of adopting semantic web standards for modeling content and services deserve the effort mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Technical Evaluation of mEducator Systems Performance Automated testing with JMeter test plan Simulate 1, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 users simultaneously accessing the system from Coventry. Plan includes realistic semi-random delays to simulate different users speed of navigating pages Gives realistic picture of current test set-up and helps to identify setup requirements mEducator 2.0 performed well directly. For mEducator 3.0 the Melina+ instance performed least well. An improved setup was retested and showed performance close to mEducator 2.0 Hence both solutions can perform sufficiently well with the right setup. 108 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 1 user 10 users 20 users 30 users 40 users 50 users 109 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 45000 40000 8 GB 1.8 GB 7000 35000 6000 30000 5000 25000 4000 20000 3000 15000 2000 10000 5000 1000 0 110 1 user 10 users 20 users 30 users 40 users 50 users 0 1 user 10 users 20 users 30 users 40 users 50 users mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 1.8 vs 8GB 2000000 7000 1800000 6000 1600000 5000 1400000 1200000 4000 1000000 3000 800000 600000 2000 400000 1000 200000 0 0 1 user 10 users 20 users 30 users 40 users 50 users 1 user 10 users 20 users 30 users 111 mEducator Final Presentation 40 users 50 users co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Exit & sustainability 112 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Outcomes of the mEducator Project Platforms: – – mEducator2.0 (DOW solution 1) mEducator3.0 (DOW solution 2) Metadata: – – – – The mEducator metadata schema for educational resources A standalone mEducator schema metadata Editor. A mEducator cloud in the LOD cloud A mapping tool for following one’s educational resources: educemiology Repurposing – – – Different platforms for achieving semantic interlinking of repositories based on mEducator3.0 (MELINA+, MILES+, LinkedLabyrinth+, Metamorphosis+) A framework for repurposing serious games A scenario Editor for repurposing serious game scenarios (mEditor) Serious Semantic Games capitalising upon Linked Open Data (LOD) Recommendations & Best Practices – – – A WebID certification framework for mEducator Recommendations for intellectual property rights (IPRs) for medical educational material Recommendations toward true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment, and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date learning resources in each of the partners’ curricula mEducator Final 113 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Analysis of similar systems. Medical Specific Handles Repurposing Content IPR Specific Support mEducator Yes Yes Yes Multilevel taxonomies Yes Free Yes 10000 Medicine Yes Yes Multilevel taxonomies No Not Free Yes - No Multilevel taxonomies Yes Not Free Yes - Product EBSCO PUBLISHING Yes Yes, Proprietary Yes, Proprietary Multilingual Taxonomies Support License Available to use Grouped based on Topics, iSEEK Medical Yes Yes No 4480 Mesh, Pharmaceuticals, Date, No Free Yes Source and Resource Type MERLOT CurrMIT Multidisciplinary content Yes Yes No Yes No Users (in year 2010) Grouped based on topic and material type Grouped based on topic, material type and date No Free Yes - No Not Free Yes - No Free Yes - - Free No Free Grouped based on Health Profession, Intended MedEdPORTAL Yes Yes No Audience, Instructional Methodology, Resource Type and Academic Focus Khresmoi Yes No - - COREMINE Yes Yes No Multilevel taxonomies mEducator Final 114 Presentation On-going Project Yes - co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Key Sustainability Aspects Technical Sustainability – All nodes of technological outcomes have at least one redundant copy. – Redundant servers are provided, located and maintained by different partners than the primary. – All redundancy is supported with automatic updating. Sustainability Authority – Openness of all outcomes. – Standardization of the metadata Schema, MedBiquitus. – The mEducator Partneship. mEducator Final 115 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme The mEducator Partnership mEducator Final 116 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Part C. Dissemination & Awareness Activities 117 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme User involvement and feedback Medical end-users facing the notion of mEducator for the first time – – – – Medical education professionals and Academics Health education professionals General practitioners Students (undergraduate and post graduate) 118 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme User groups and evaluation sessions Group size Profile 20, Medical Education Professionals Testing of mEducator2.0 39.58 25 Medical Professionals, students mEducator3.0/Moodle (mEducator3.0MILES+) mEducator3.0-MELINA+ 15 Students of Dental Medicine 15 Students of Medicine mEducator2.0 mEducator3.0/MELINA+ A localized questionnaire 62.83 5 Professionals mEducator2.0 41.0 15 Professionals, General Practitioners 35 postgraduate students mEducator3.0/Metamorphosis+ 43.83 mEducator3.0-MELINA+ 62.12 Thessaloniki, Greece, 1.12.2011 130 undergraduate medical students mEducator3.0-MELINA+ 64.75 Thessaloniki, Greece, 7.12.2011 10 post-graduate medical students & health professionals 18 postgraduate medical, academic medical staff & health professionals 31 undergraduate medical students mEducator3.0-MELINA+ [refer to D.6.1] mEducator2.0 45.15 mEducator3.0/Metamorphosis+ 57.12 130 (in self-learning mode) undergraduate medical students 10 Health Professionals mEducator3.0-MELINA+ 56.47 Evaluation Vienna, Austria, 31st August 2011 Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 6th October 2011 Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 22nd October 2011 Bucharest, Romania, 21st October 2011 Bucharest, Romania, 21st October 2011 Bucharest, Romania, 21st October 2011 Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov.11 2011 Various Places from 2.12 – 16.12. 2011 Alexandroupolis, Greece, 19.12.2011 Thessaloniki, Greece, 12.1.2012 119 Vilnius, 1.2.2012 SUS score obtained 52.5 56.55 mEducator3.0/OpenLabyrinth (LL+) 60.35 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme SUS scores summary data by platforms 120 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Content analysis of open questions in the survey 121 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Content analysis of open questions in the survey 122 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Additional suggestions from the users A special edition for students Keep it as simple as Google Protect against irrelevant/malicious data Provide more flexible filters for languages Prioritize search parameters 123 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Metadata evaluation 124 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Use of vocabularies In 40% of the published resources were annotated with Media type 62,4% coded with a single value, 37,5% coded with multiple values: 21% with 2 values 11% with 3 values 5% with 4 values. Distribution of Educational Outcomes was: 54% coded with a single value 46% coded with multiple values 24% used 4 or more terms Possible interpretations The distribution of Resource type was: 69% coded with a single value, 31 % coded with multiple values: 12% with 2 values 5 % with 3 values 14% with 4 values. 1) a good proportion of the learning resources that are shared are rich in scope, rather than addressing narrow and fragmented content 2) the end-users feel more comfortable in using a vocabulary that is closer to their background than the previous ones 125 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme User attitudes towards repurposing In general, this was found a difficult notion to grasp (need culture change? need terminology change?) But users do accept and value the repurposing notion, once they understand the concept and its importance. 126 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Dissemination of the recommendations derived mEducator website and WIKI Conference presentations and Journal publications addressing the target communities (medical educators, technical developers, policy makers) Who do we have to convince? 127 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Spring School (1) 1st International Spring School on “Medical Education Content Sharing Technologies” 4-5 April, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece (www.mei2012.org/spring-school) Programme included – – – – 128 some short theoretical keynote lectures many practical (hands-on) sessions Ask the expert sessions all of direct practical and methodological importance for state-of-theart medical teaching and education research. Some 50 Participants: from all mEducator target groups mEducator Final Presentation Clustering with other projects co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Spring School (2) Online reporting by experts: Rapporteurs blog http://www.mei2012.org/rapporteur-blog 129 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Spring School evaluation The whole programme was tiring 2.38 Duration/timing of sessions was proper 3.88 The room/space was suitable 4.92 The room/space was comfortable 4.71 Assistance/help provided by facilitators was good 4.71 Handouts and material was useful 4.33 Interaction was good 4.38 The type of sessions was appropriate 4.35 I would attend it again 4.62 Topics covered were useful 4.42 Overall interesting 0.00 130 4.50 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 Average response of 24 users over a 5 degree satisfaction scale (1 strongly disagree – 5 strongly agree) mEducator Final Presentation 5.00 co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme MEI 2012 131 1st International Conference on Medical Education Informatics – (www.mei2012.org) 6-7 April, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece 4 Keynote lectures 4 Tele-presentations 2 Parallel Workshops OKFN – Greek Chapter meet-up parallel event 8 main tracks/spaces 1 poster session Attendance by some 130 participants mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme In MEI: wide use of mEducator3.0/ MELINA+ platform Participants in MEI 2012 and mEducator Spring School widely used MELINA+ for dynamically linking and transforming presentations and web site resources into educational resources A specific mEducator3.0/MELINA+ teaser was developed 132 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme MELINA+ & MEI2012: Number of users Number of users 68 MELINA+ MEI2012 554 133 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme MELINA+ & MEI2012: Number of resources Number of resources 65 7 MELINA+ MEI2012 Conference MEI2012 Spring School 646 134 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Further Dissemination Activities 135 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Dissemination activities Promote awareness Invite associate partners Build a community Engage stakeholders Stimulate discussion Clustering with other projects Explore user requirements and relevant issues 136 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Relevant Performance Indicators Performance Indicator Target Actual Number of standardisation bodies approached and corresponding workshop agreements made (subject to their approval) 3 2+1 Numbers of scientific papers published 20 >50 10 11 27 27 12 10 8 13 Number of new partners (associate members, e.g. medical professional societies - national or European ) entering the network (either as content providers or users Number of EU member States reached by dissemination, promotion and uptake of the mEducator results Attendance in at least X different meetings of standardisation bodies and plugfests Number of mEducator co-operation / clustering with other projects 137 Number of mEducator Project Web site hits 100000 294999 pageviews 33247 unique visitors mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Activities Project website Project presentation Project leaflets Project poster Newsletters 138 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Presentations at major conferences Medinfo 2010 IEEE CBMS 2010 & 2011 Medicine 2.0 , 2010 & 2011 World Care Health Congress, 2010 Doctors 2.0 & You, 2011 Health 2.0, 2011 MedBiquitous Annual conference, 2011 & 2012 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2011 29th International Conference on Design of Communication,2011 10th International Semantic Web Conference,2011 Open Source and Design of Communication Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011 AMEE Conference, 2011 Arab Health Congress World Wide Web Conference, 2012 International Conference Information Systems, 2012 International Conference on Mobile and Online Learning Hubrid, 2012 139 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Journal papers/book chapters 140 C. Paton, P. Bamidis, G. Eysenbach, M. Margaret, and M. Cabrer, “Experience in the Use of Social Media in Medical and Health Education,” Yearb Med Inform. 2011;6(1):21-9. T Ştefănuţ, D Gorgan, N Dovrolis, E Kaldoudi. “Modelarea reutilizării resurselor în domeniul medical prin intermediul reţelelor sociale şi a internetului semantic”, Romanian Journal of Human - Computer Interaction (in press, 2012) Kaldoudi. E., Dovrolis, N., Konstantinidis, S., Bamidis, P. “Depicting Educational Content Repurposing Context and Inheritance” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 15(1), pp. 164-170, 2011 Book Publication “E-EDUCATION & E-SCIENCE”, ISBN 978960-243-682-0 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Planned Special Issue in JMIR Journal of Medical Internet Research Special Issue Theme: “Medical Education Content Sharing Over the Web” Status: call for papers in process; tentative deadline September 30, 2012 Impact factor: 4.7 141 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Other Conference/Workshops/Schools Special tracks on Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education within the Computer Based Medical Systems Conference (CBMS): – 142 In 2010, 2011 Linked Learning 2011: 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age, 29 May 2011, co-located with the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2011 Linked Learning 2012: 2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data, 17 April 2012, at the World Wide Web Conference 2012 (WWW2012), Lyon, France 5th Interactive Urology School – with IMOP, Portaria, Pilio, 26-29 April 2012 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Other awareness raising activities and material Conference stands/booths Banners mEducator banner to all partners' websites Dissemination material(pens, gifts in conferences, markers, notepads, etc) Press releases Newspaper publications Sponsor conference awards Participation to seminars and info-days Booklets - Technical manuals 143 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Dissemination activities Medical and Healthcare repositories and standards organisations: MedEdPortal, MedBiquitous Major educational conferences: Ottawa, AMEE, Asia-Pacific The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NOE) Projects: curriculum development (Medine 2), Learning Objects (Porsche, OOER) 144 mEducator Final Presentation ® MedBiq 2011: 2012: MedBiquitous Mission: •Innovation demonstration showing •Presented metadata mEducator outputs scheme to Learning To advance healthcare Objects and •Formally submitted proposal for education through Competencies working mEducator metadata scheme technology standards that for group standardisation process promote professional competence, •Progress on collaboration, metadata scheme and •Conference and better patient care Linked Data principles in Learning presentation on Objects working groups metadata schema •Technical Steering Committee concluded Linked Data should form key strategy over next few years AMEE 2011 - Vienna • Presented “Secrets of Success” workshop – Showcasing mEducator achievements as a model for medical education content sharing • Workshop “How to search, retrieve and repurpose medical educational resources: the mEducator project approach” – Demonstrated the importance of metadata to participants, and introduces them to both mEducator and concept of repurposing VPH – Education Collaboration • Participating in ongoing discussions with VPH community on generating a VPH-informed Virtual Patient model • Inaugural meeting , London in March 2012:Identified synergies with VPH NoE – mEducator solutions and VPH toolkit for sharing VPH resources and knowledge – Linked Data expertise and VPH work on ontology to link disparate physiological models co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme PORSCHE collaboration Clustering activity with PORSCHE project: Open Educational Resources Meeting in Newcastle June 2011 – – – 148 Discussed shared IPR issues PORSCHE resources brought into mEducator solutions (hand-shaking best practices) Mappings/APIs created to make metadata schemes compatible PORSCHE actively participated in mEducator Spring School and MEI2012 conference mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Part D. Impact 149 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Innovation The first real combination of social media technologies (Web2.0) and the semantic web (Linked Data/Web3.0) into education and learning (Linked Learning / Linked Medical Education) Exploitation of the role semantics may play in education and learning Open source, multiple platforms 150 mEducator Final Presentation The main product/service 1. mEducator 2.0: loosely coupled LCMSs via mashup technologies (Web2.0) 2. mEducator 3.0: LCMSs linked via (semantic) linked services (Web3.0) partner institute 2 partner institute 3 partner institute 4 partner institute 5 partner institute 1 Other products/services 1. Different platforms for achieving semantic interlinking of repositories (MELINA+, MILES+, LinkedLabyrinth+, MetaMorphosis+) 2. A standard schema (MedBiquitous) for educational resources 3. A standalone Editor for describing resources 4. A framework for repurposing serious games 5. An Editor for repurposing serious game scenarios (mEditor) 6. Semantic Medical Games capitalising Life Linked Data 7. An mEducator cloud in the LOD cloud 8. A WebID certification framework 9. DBpedia spotlight modules 10. Recommendations for intellectual property rights (IPRs) for educational material 11. Recommendations & Best Practices towards true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment, and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date learning resources in each of the partners’ curricula 12. A mapping tool for following one’s educational resources: educemiology co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Who do we impact? • Communities of practice: • • • • • • • Drupal CMS community Moodle LCMS community Medical Education/Virtual Patients/OpenLabyrinth community Open source software community Semantic web community Social Media communities Target groups: • providers and users of such content such as: • • 153 • expert instructors (academics / health professionals) students / learners Technical providers of educational (health care) solutions mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Other changes and benefits brought up by the project Individual partner institutions benefits: – – – – – Modernise LCMS Update educational resources (through sharing) Obtain access to contemporary, state-of-the-art resources Attract student’s attention/collaboration Change curricula… Engage in internal processes by aligning current strategic plans with mEducator developments Shake old minds… Get refreshed with new, young, technical personnel… 154 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Why should stakeholders bother? Good numbers of users already: – – – – – 155 MELINA+ users: 622 MILES+ users: 5320 (all versions) LL+ users: 946 MM+ users: 649 mEducator2.0 users: 152 More than 350 target users have been evaluators It’s a year of change! mEducator impact will continuously grow mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Technical Impact 156 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Technical Impact of mEducator2.0 Convenient to reuse mashup instead of developing new applications that will consume WS or APIs It is easy and affordable to maintain mashups. Updating APIs will require updates in different applications and clients to keep working MEDTING platform has evolved to be able to accommodate platforms using its framework MEDTING search engine has been refined thanks to the mEducator data requirements 157 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme WP5 Impact http://ckan.net/package/med ucator > 35000 triples so far > 1000 links to DBpedia & Bioportal ontologies APIs used by 4 applications 158 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Technical Impact: linking meducator content with life linked data Linking educational content with Life Linked Data, through metadata, can enrich the knowledge in the mEducator instances and vice versa For instance: a learning object about diabetes can be combined with Anti-diabetic medication drugs, retrieved from the LOD cloud, together with their chemical attributes, side – effects etc. 159 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme Standardisation Plan An application proposal have been submitted to MedBiquitous Standardisation Body Positive informal feedback so far Standards Committee Review Rejection Follow standards development process for non-ANSI standards or reject proposal Approval Submission of detailed specifications Requires Review 4 years from the date of approval by ANSI accreditation 160 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme mEducator Metadata Scheme Standardisation Proposal 161 Proposal of a Metadata Standard for medical and healthcare education resources which is based on the notions of the collaborative web and semantic web technologies. Proposal of Controlled Vocabularies to enhance the description of medical and educational resources from a pedagogical and learning outcomes perspective Extension of modeling activity as proposed in ATOM specification, and which(activity) refers to interactions that take place between users and resources in any social platform mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Part E. Beyond the project 162 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Exploitation of results & sustainability 163 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 3rd Best Business Plan award Open Investment Forum Organised in Center for dissemination of research results at AUTH Out of 12 candidates the mEducator buisness plan was awarded the third place by a panel of venture capital experts On the basis of business plan readiness It received a lot of attention both by academics as well as venture capital expert panel that were present at the event mEducator Final 164 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Exploitation Plans Broadening of user communities – Dissemination to underrepresented EU countries. – Dissemination to diverse Medical professional organizations. Doctors & Nurses. Pharmaceutical community. Medical Research Scientists. Increase of user base – Inclusion of mEducator in partner university curricula. – Dissemination events. – Dissemination material in existing international events that attract medical professionals. Keep users engaged – Consistent and reliable service – Updated state of the art educational content. – Active user community – Link mEducator to medical education continuing education mEducator Final 165 Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme How do we propagate? A flexible partnership plan Open access Update the instantiation profiles Syndication of mEducator systems 166 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Adding a new endpoint to mEducator 3.0 search service Membership Application at mEducator Partnership Instantiations are Downloadable – – Application for inclusion of new SPARQL endpoint following mEducator scheme – – Through mEducator site Considering also sourceforge.net Through mEducator site By email Service update 167 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Further work 168 mEducator Final Presentation mEducator Spaces In Second Life. Overview of the project’s status Two axes of action An interesting virtual classroom in Second Life. Visualization of semantic information To visit the project’s Island in SL install a Second Life viewer and either search for: LOMIMED AUTH island or point a web browser to: http://slurl.com/secondlife/LOMIMED%20AUTH%20island/119/91/41/ co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Semantic Medical Games: The game begins with a central concept (a drug), that needs to be 'guessed' by the player. The player expands the concept and reveals some of the hints related with it. hints : – – other concepts (like a disease targeted by the drug) a simple property of the original concept (like a brand name). The related concepts can be expanded a knowledge network is developed. The player has to exchange currency in the most effective manner, to reveal the hints. – A correct guess is rewarded. 170 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme 171 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Videos See the YouTube mEducatorproject channel 172 mEducator Final Presentation co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Pulling all threads together An ambitious project ! Forefront of Medical Education Research… Good shape of work performed … Wide dissemination… Good impact so far, but more envisaged impact …we sustain work and continue ! If interested, please, apply for an associate membership! Thank you! 173 mEducator Final Presentation