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Experiments with Weblearn Tools in Medical Sciences

Experiments with Weblearn Tools in Medical Sciences. Helen Christian. Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. Year 1 Medicine at Oxford.

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Experiments with Weblearn Tools in Medical Sciences

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  1. Experiments with Weblearn Tools in Medical Sciences Helen Christian Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

  2. Year 1 Medicine at Oxford The first year medical students sit their first professional qualifying exams in week 9 of Trinity Term yet they are taught a large number of new topics, including ‘Reproduction’, up to the end of week 6. The time pressure and volume of material promotes surface and passive learning. 65 lectures in Trinity term CAL sessions alongside histology practicals have flexible format

  3. Interactive teaching with large groups Are lectures effective? Eric Mazur (2009) Large scale tutorial idea Evidence for benefits of audience response systems in medical sciences

  4. Use of the Weblearn polls tool in an interactive revision session Aims • empower the students to actively learn from and explore their understanding of reproduction through the questions in an interactive quiz in a revision session • 2. successfully use the weblearn poll feature to display the quiz • 3. to introduce the students to Mobile Oxford and to use their mobiles to vote for answers.

  5. Use of the Weblearn polls tool in an interactive revision session The day before: set up a quiz of 27 ‘extended match’ questions in weblearn poll On the day: • Brief explanation of the aim of the session and where to find the quiz, projected the weblearn poll page • Distributed Mobile Oxford handout, staff on hand Worked in groups or singly to complete the quiz • Display of poll results and discussion

  6. Results those students with internet enabled mobiles were very enthusiastic about the Mobile Oxford interface Indicate the overall value of the session on a scale 0-10. 59/60 would like to use Weblearn polls interactive format in future teaching.

  7. What has been valuable for you in this session? • ‘the session reassured me that I have good knowledge of reproduction and highlighted areas I need to work on’ • ‘good to learn how to use m.ox.ac.uk’ • ‘working in a group more thought went into answers’ • ‘it was useful to identify common misconceptions, why options were wrong (via different votes) not just which ones were right’ • ‘the mobile worked well, good clear interface’

  8. What could be improved? • ‘mobile connection was very slow’ • ‘the cross used to mark the voting on my mobile was confusing as I thought the answer was wrong’ • ‘if the correct answer was shown on poll that would be helpful’ • ‘I want to do the quiz again as revision’ • ‘to have a personal score show at the end’

  9. What could be improved? • to include images • ‘survey’ tool has the advantage that can save multiple ‘tests’ and re-use – mobile enabled in the future • I like the ‘real-time’ nature – that discussion is led by the direction of the answers.

  10. UNIQ Summer School Used a similar format in ‘mock’ teaching sessions in Set advance reading, short lecture, then discussion around questions in poll ‘Public poll’ as students did not have SSO

  11. Next… To use weblearn polls within a lecture. Use the Edu-roam system for web access, introduce to new intake Study of the learning outcome? Thanks to: Jill Fresen, Fawei Geng Damion Young, John Mason, Pauline Woolley

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