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Project Overview
Throughout the 1990s one cornerstone of computer-based learning in bio/medical sciences was the multimedia Computer-Assisted Learning (CAL) program - twenty years later few are still technologically viable. In many cases, however, the content is still relevant and high quality. The RECAL project based at the University of Edinburgh is providing methods and technologies that safeguard the educational content, while allowing for simple authoring/editing, adaptable delivery options, and establishing a future for CALs. Although the focus of RECAL has been existing pharmacology and physiology CALs the processes developed, which decouples the learning objects from their runtime application, is applicable to any discipline. Bespoke disaggregation tools allow RECAL to safely and systematically liberate the pedagogy, learning resources and sequencing from legacy applications. This methodology is achieved via architecture that consists of three key components: web-based tools a standards compliant assets repository extensible delivery/export options
Project Deliverables
Cat Nictitating Membrane IMS Content Package
an online suite of authoring, cataloguing and publishing tools 66 CAL programs disaggregated and revitalised
Online Surveys
Surveys using Bristol Online Survey (BOS) were conducted three times between September 2008 and October 2009. The main purpose of the surveys were to: 1) identify the current teaching practices in physiology and pharmacology for laboratory-based practical classes in different national settings in varied programmes, 2) explore lecturers perceptions towards the use of computer-based resources for teaching and 3) inform the development of a more effective dataretrievable questionnaire for future online surveys. Findings from these three surveys can be summarised as follows: developing countries seem to use more animals, as well as a wider range of animals universities in eastern and central Europe (e.g. Romania and Macedonia) appear to use a high number of animals the patterns of animal use, such as number of animals and species used, vary signicantly according to country there is a need to devise tactful questions to improve the response rate on the numbers of animal used and what kinds of tissue preparations are used for practical classes (only 30% of respondents answered these particular questions)
including 33 foreign language versions (Bulgarian, Czech, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Ukrainian) almost 5000 discrete learning objects (interactives, images & text) have been catalogued and deposited
Contact Us
Please contact us for more information: email: stewart.cromar@ed.ac.uk browse: www.recal.mvm.ed.ac.uk tweet: @project_recal
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Lord Dowding Fund (NAVS, UK) for their generosity in providing the funds to enable these learning packages to be developed. browse: www.ldf.org.uk
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