Curriculum Transformation Workshop (December 2011)
Day 1
- Registration, refreshments
- Welcome and introductions
- Introduction to e-scenario-based learning, types of scenarios, how they are used, and the value of decision-making
- Examples of scenarios in practice: Virtual Patients (VPs), the trial of VPs in problem-based learning (PBL), and the Generation 4 project, video-based VPs
- Illustrations of some web-based authoring systems
- How do you construct them? Demonstration of scenario creation
BREAK
- Brief recap: what can interactive scenarios do for the teacher, the student and the curriculum?
- Discussion with participants on how the creation process works
- Basic guidelines and highlighting key features: what works, what doesn’t & the rules of VP authoring
- Participants play example VPs
- Split into groups & planning of case and creation of first few nodes
- Feedback
Day 2 
- Overview of day one
- Rules of VP authoring in more detail
- Different types of VPs & lecture, PBL, assessment VPs
- Continue creation of VPs in groups
BREAK
- Review VPs, and carry out a ‘show and tell’ group by groups
- Modify VPs based on review and comments
- Finalise VPs
- Where next, and how to access the created VPs in the future
- Demonstration of VPs in Second Life
- Feedback, discussion and close