Improving Student Interview Skills

Sweigart, Linda; Hodson‐Carlton, Kay

doi:10.1097/nne.0b013e318276df2d

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“…Due to its highly collaborative nature and the ease of content creation in these platforms, nursing training has a strong presence in them. There are several studies and reviews regarding nursing education ([54]- [59]), ranging from generic journal clubs [60], honing interpersonal interview skills [61] and decision-making capabilities [62], to specifics like mental health nursing [63], moving all the way to meta-education, such as faculty education about nursing teaching methods [64]. With this being only a very high level overview of the material available on these platforms and a couple of very comprehensive cataloguing efforts [18] [49] we present here a further automation of this presentation method.…”

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OSCase: Data Schemes, Architecture and Implementation details of Virtual Patient repurposing in Multi User Virtual Environments.

Antoniou¹,

Ioannidis²,

Bamidis³

2016

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Env

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Experiential game based learning has proven effective at engaging and enabling learners especially in medical education where the volume of the curriculum is as severe as its criticality. A mature and promising ICT tool for medical education is the Virtual Patient (VP). Web-based virtual patients have been established for quite some time, while efforts have been made to create content in multi user virtual environments (MUVEs). What is still missing is a streamlined method for transferring VPs from Web-based authoring and deployment platforms to MUVEs like OpenSim. This work describes the existing implementation context for repurposing VPs in the OS MUVE. Then it focuses on a novel OpenSim Case Datascheme and a supporting framework that facilitates this streamlined transfer according to previous repurposing strategies and efforts. Finally the future directions and the place of this work in the wider context of contemporary Virtual Learning Environments are explored.

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OSCase: Data Schemes, Architecture and Implementation details of Virtual Patient repurposing in Multi User Virtual Environments.

Antoniou¹,

Ioannidis²,

Bamidis³

2016

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Intelligent Educational Env

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“…Nursing training has a strong presence in the Second Life virtual environment. The literature is teeming with studies and reviews about Second Life and nursing education [38-43], from general facilitation of nurse education with facilitated journal clubs [44], improving interpersonal interview skills [45], and cultivating decision-making capabilities [46], to specific subjects, such as mental health nursing [47], or meta-education, such as the education of faculty about the methods of teaching nursing [48]. This could be attributed to the combination of the necessity in nursing education for hands-on experience in an environment where no human life will be put at risk in conjunction with the lack of specialized hardware and software to simulate nursing work and the ease of development of Second Life resources through a simple scripting language.…”

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Exploring Design Requirements for Repurposing Dental Virtual Patients From the Web to Second Life: A Focus Group Study

Antoniou¹,

Athanasopoulou²,

Dafli³

et al. 2014

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundSince their inception, virtual patients have provided health care educators with a way to engage learners in an experience simulating the clinician’s environment without danger to learners and patients. This has led this learning modality to be accepted as an essential component of medical education. With the advent of the visually and audio-rich 3-dimensional multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), a new deployment platform has emerged for educational content. Immersive, highly interactive, multimedia-rich, MUVEs that seamlessly foster collaboration provide a new hotbed for the deployment of medical education content.ObjectiveThis work aims to assess the suitability of the Second Life MUVE as a virtual patient deployment platform for undergraduate dental education, and to explore the requirements and specifications needed to meaningfully repurpose Web-based virtual patients in MUVEs.MethodsThrough the scripting capabilities and available art assets in Second Life, we repurposed an existing Web-based periodontology virtual patient into Second Life. Through a series of point-and-click interactions and multiple-choice queries, the user experienced a specific periodontology case and was asked to provide the optimal responses for each of the challenges of the case. A focus group of 9 undergraduate dentistry students experienced both the Web-based and the Second Life version of this virtual patient. The group convened 3 times and discussed relevant issues such as the group’s computer literacy, the assessment of Second Life as a virtual patient deployment platform, and compared the Web-based and MUVE-deployed virtual patients.ResultsA comparison between the Web-based and the Second Life virtual patient revealed the inherent advantages of the more experiential and immersive Second Life virtual environment. However, several challenges for the successful repurposing of virtual patients from the Web to the MUVE were identified. The identified challenges for repurposing of Web virtual patients to the MUVE platform from the focus group study were (1) increased case complexity to facilitate the user’s gaming preconception in a MUVE, (2) necessity to decrease textual narration and provide the pertinent information in a more immersive sensory way, and (3) requirement to allow the user to actuate the solutions of problems instead of describing them through narration.ConclusionsFor a successful systematic repurposing effort of virtual patients to MUVEs such as Second Life, the best practices of experiential and immersive game design should be organically incorporated in the repurposing workflow (automated or not). These findings are pivotal in an era in which open educational content is transferred to and shared among users, learners, and educators of various open repositories/environments.

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“…[5][6][7][8] Other reports in nursing education have cited a commercial product called The Neighborhood to generate case studies in a virtual community. [5][6][7][8] Other reports in nursing education have cited a commercial product called The Neighborhood to generate case studies in a virtual community.…”

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