Making Learning Fun Again

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Making Learning Fun Again

• M Choudhury, B Royston, P Li, V Jojanovski, C
  Thornton, D Newton
• Nov 2003

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Why listen to this presentation?

• Doctors regularly involved in teaching
• Internet increasingly used for education
• Ideal opportunity for interactive teaching

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What is EduCAT?

• EduCAT allows educators to create own teaching
  tools
• Promotes novel methods of teaching
• Multimedia programming toolset
• Component based
• Drag-and-drop programming
• Can be used stand-alone or over internet

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How I used EduCAT?

• Objective
• - educational
• - interactive
• - entertaining
• Game created based on popular board games
• - competition
• - prizes penalties
• - timers

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What the trainees thought!

• Anaesthetic trainees played the game
• Feedback on educational value, usability and
  interest
• Game adapted according to feedback
• - more educational value
• - more frequent questions
• - more interactivity incorporated

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My conclusion

• Novel way of learning
• Engages student
• Easily adaptable by teacher
• Varying types of questions and methods of
  answering

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Future plans

• Measure effectiveness by comparing two groups
• One to play the game
• The other to complete a paper quiz
• Both groups tested for recall later

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Making Learning Fun Again

• Any questions?