A VLE for the education and training of health care professionals

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A VLE for the education and training of health
care professionals
CHASEtown
Presenters Caron McMahon Ger Cannon
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Project Team

• Caron McMahon
• Pamela Henry
• Gerald Cannon
• Colette Lyng
• Mary McGrath
• Anne Spencer

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Aim of Project

• Case study based VLE
• Shared resources (among lecturers and
  institutions)
• Ease of use and enjoyable for end user
• Element of time patients age, episodes of care
  happen over a period of time

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CHASEtown Version 1

• Completed September 06
• Developed in-house
• Pros
• Ease of understanding and use for student
• Worked in conjunction with other on-line tools
  e.g. Moodle, video server
• Cons
• Lack of flexibility in creating places
• Standard language entry caused problems among
  different disciplines

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CHASEtown Version 2

• Built from the back end up so that flexibility
  could be incorporated
• Developed in conjunction with contracted company
  over last 6months
• Highly configurable and scaleable
• Navigation metaphor not as evident in final
  version but search functionality added

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CHASEtown Version 2

• Will be used in modules in the coming semester
  (Feb-May 06)
• Example usage of case study

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IDENTIFY CHASETOWN OBJECTS The Place
Resources
Life Continuum For James McCafferty
Mental Health
Accident and Emergency
Accident and Emergency
IHD Angina
Age 10 Fracture Right Elbow
Age 21 Depression
Age 38 Road Traffic Accident
Future Admissions
Documentation Video Photographs X Rays Web
site Links
Documentation
Documentation X Rays
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CHASEtown Where were going

• Working on external partnerships
• Presently these include Portsmouth, SHIP trust,
  Western Australia
• Development of V3 with improved user interface
  and application packing

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QA

• For further information contact
• pamela.henry_at_dcu.ie