Wednesday, June 23, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Designing and Producing Medical Education Programs for Next Generation (Broadband) Internet: a Theoretic and Practical Framework

Lecture/Demonstration limited to 40 participants.
Room 307, Jefferson Alumni Hall, 1020 Locust Street
Registrants $75; non-registrants $125.
 
Instructors: Joseph V. Henderson, MD and Mark Noel
Interactive Media Laboratory, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
 
Synopsis:

The proposed preworkshop will help educators and producers understand how the imminent, wide availability of a broadband Internet (Next-generation Internet - NGI) might be used to improve health professional education. NGI is likely dramatically to increase the educational tools and designs available to educators, including increased use of motion video and graphics, more immersive interfaces, and more absorbing and complex depictions of the world about which one wishes to learn. In addition, tools are now becoming available to reduce the cost and experience required to develop programs that employ such design and production elements. Finally, new instructional designs are being developed that offer the possibility of more comprehensive health professional education, and that illustrate the potential of NGI capabilities.

This workshop will present a theoretical and practical framework for
designing and producing health education content for NGI. It will include a
demonstration of programs which were developed as part of research into the
educational application of NGI sponsored by DARPA and NSF. Several of these
programs (such as SimTrauma and Regimental Surgeon) were adapted from
earlier laserdisc programs and show how existing multimedia applications
can be used as a basis for newer forms of network-based applications made
possible by NGI.
 
Benefit in Attending Session:
 
The proposed seminar will help educators and producers understand how the imminent, wide availability of a broadband Internet (Next-generation Internet - NGI) might be used to improve health professional education. NGI is likely dramatically to increase the educational tools and designs available to educators, including increased use of motion video and graphics, more immersive interfaces, and more absorbing and complex depictions of the world about which one wishes to learn. In addition, tools are now becoming available to reduce the cost and experience required to develop programs that employ such design and production elements. Finally, new instructional designs are being developed that offer the possibility of more comprehensive health professional education, and that illustrate the potential of NGI capabilities. Knowing about these is likely to help educators and developers prepare to use NGI.
 
Joseph Henderson, M.D.
Interactive Media Laboratory, HB 7275
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH 03755
 
603-650-1211
Fax Number:
603-650-1164
joe.henderson@dartmouth.edu
 
Name Co-Author(s):
Mark Noel
Senior Media Programmer and Production Engineer
Interactive Media Laboratory, HB 7275
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH 03755
 
603-650-1211
Fax Number(s):
603-650-1164
mark.noel@dartmouth.edu