Making Learning Fun Again
M Choudhury, B Royston, P Li, V
Jojanovski, C Thornton, D Newton
Nov 2003
Why listen to this presentation?
• Doctors regularly involved in teaching
• Internet increasingly used for education
• Ideal opportunity for interactive teaching
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
How I used EduCAT?
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Objective
- educational
- interactive
- entertaining
Game created based on popular board games
- competition
- prizes & penalties
- timers
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
My conclusion
• Novel way of learning
• Engages student
• Easily adaptable by teacher
• Varying types of questions and methods of
answering
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
Making Learning Fun Again
Any questions?