Author: Michael Begg, michael.begg@ed.ac.uk

Author: David Dewhurst, d.dewhurst@ed.ac.uk

Author: Mark Eisler, mark.eisler@ed.ac.uk

JISC e-Learning Activity Area: Technology-enhanced Learning Environments

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine

This case study illustrates...use of specialist software, an effect on learning, an effect on student personal development, student satisfaction with e-learning, innovation in learning and teaching, an influence on educational research, staff satisfaction with e-learning, staff personal development, use of resources, management of learning assets

Technology Used

What technologies and/or e-tools were available to you?

Labyrinth - an authoring and delivery platform for branching case scenarios developed by the College of Medicine's Learning Technology Section (LTS) was used for the exercise. In addition, VUE, a freeware concept mapping application developed by Tufts University was used. VP scenarios mapped out in VUE are able to be imported directly into Labyrinth for editing.

These tools were chosen because they integrate well with other local (College) learning resources, such as the UG Veterinary VLE, EEVeC- which is also developed in-house by LTS.

Labyrinth, in particular, afforded students the ability to author collaboratively in an online environment. They could work on their case presentation at any time of the day or night during the one week period they were working on this activity.

The content-creation environment supported upload of media such as pictures and sound files as well as the written content of the case itself.