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Engaging veterinary students in e-learning development Nick Short e-Media Unit, Royal Veterinary College AMEE 2009. Overview. How do key stakeholders use technology? How do we “Teach the Teachers”? Perhaps by “Learning from the Learners”? So what do the students say?. Current Status.

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  1. Engaging veterinary studentsin e-learning developmentNick Shorte-Media Unit, Royal Veterinary CollegeAMEE 2009

  2. Overview • How do key stakeholders use technology? • How do we “Teach the Teachers”? • Perhaps by “Learning from the Learners”? • So what do the students say?

  3. Current Status • Virtual learning environment • Podcast lectures • Computer aided assessment • e-directed learning • Clinical video bank • BUT

  4. Students Academics

  5. Teachers constraints to change • Traditional approaches to teaching • Lack of time to learn and implement new approaches • Limited exposure and awareness of new technology • Difficult to catch up with rapid pace of development • Not convinced of value of new approaches • DESPITE

  6. Teaching the Teachers • Traditional training courses • Creating interactive training materials • Seeding peer to peer skill sharing • Using student pressure • Changes to curriculum • SO

  7. Appropriate and Practical TechnologiesStudents, Teachers, Administrators and Researchers (STAIRS) www.bloomsbury.ac.uk/apt

  8. Learning from the Learners • Focus groups and year reps • Student ambassadors • Developing e-guides • e-case development • Reviewing content • Lets hear the student view

  9. Conclusions • Students have helped • Determine how new technologies can help them learn • Identify the most effective learning tools • Encourage teachers to adopt new practices • Develop new tools to improve their learning experience • Assisted in training and supporting staff • Monitor the uptake and impact of new approaches

  10. Thank You Contact : Nick Short on : nshort@rvc.ac.uk Thanks to : Beverley Panto and Asher Allison Web : www.rvc.ac.uk/AMEE

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