Andrzej Kononowicz
My passion is medical education informatics. I am teacher and researcher at Karolinska Institutet and Jagiellonian University. Looking forward to seeing more virtual scenarios in curricula worldwide.
Location Stockholm (Sweden) and Kraków (Poland)
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Andrzej Kononowicz replied to Stephen De Souza
@StephenDeSouza We are discussing virtual scenario authoring tools in the third week of this course. But even then we will mainly focus on simple to use branched and semi-linear systems. To introduce serious games technologies into your teaching you need something more powerful (and unfortunately more expensive). One example is for instance ITyStudio...
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Yes, this is possible. For instance, in OpenLabyrinth you may display all the completed steps using the “review your pathway” option and return to the step where you think you made a mistake.
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Thank you for this idea. I like it! Indeed, some virtual scenario systems provide as a feature peer group results displayed after a decision is made. The more participants in the scenario, the better. A 'wisdom of the crowd' scenario. I can well imagine this would be a nice element of a MOOC virtual scenario. But of course, the majority is not always right ...
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It's possible to turn on automatically generated subtitles in all videos of the virtual scenario. There is a button for that in the panel at the bottom of the video clip window, when you move with your mouse cursor over it (to the left of the icon with the cog). It is not perfect, but may help to follow the story when sound is disabled. The technical challenge...
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Andrzej Kononowicz replied to Anne S
Hi Benjamin. WAVES is an acronym and stands for "Widening access to virtual educational scenarios". It is a project co-funded by the European Commission to promote the use of virtual scenarios in education. You will read more about it in the next steps.
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Hi Polina, this sounds like a good plan! Sometimes a technical problem may occur in your second step: how to make the computer recognise the right answer when you allow students to write free text. People tend to be very creative in the way how they formulate answers, so lot of possible answers need to be considered. The intermediate solution is to use long...
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Thanks a lot for this comment. It's awesome to see how wide is the range of content domains for which virtual scenarios find application. Great to know you find them useful in teaching information literacy!
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Thank you for this comment! I agree with you completely. As a matter of fact, some software tools for authoring and playback of virtual scenario allow conditional display of scenarios. A learner will get access to more scenarios once some prerequisite scenarios are completed successfully. You may see here elements of gamification (moving up to the next level)...
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Andrzej Kononowicz replied to Susan Smith
Video clips are eye-catching, but sometimes a distraction as well. You may find this study interesting: http://www.jmir.org/2015/6/e151/ . The conclusion: text was perceived by students to be a better source of information than video in small group activities (PBL) around virtual patients.
So, I wouldn't worry too much if you are unable to provide your...
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Thank you for your interesting comment. As it is often the case when different disciplines come together: we observe name collisions. What we mean here by "deep learning" has nothing to do with machine learning, but concerns students' approaches towards learning. When discussing "deep learning" many educationalist refer to the research by John Biggs in...
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@AnnaSieroslawska "Cześć" and welcome !!! Great to see compatriots in the course. As a matter of fact, Poland was one of the most engaged countries in the WAVES project's needs assessment. I’m looking forward to seeing more application of virtual scenarios in Kraków. But of course, the great thing about scenario-based learning is you can apply it everywhere in...
