AUDITORIUM PRESENTATION

AUDITORIUM PRESENTATION

e-Learning and e-Testing with TeleTendo: Implementations for Radiology

H. Buysse

Ghent University, Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics Belgium

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many e-Learning and e-Testing products already exist. With TeleTendo more possibilities ñ especially in the case of testing and learning radiological skills, are foreseen. TeleTendo is a reliable multi-media web based e-learning and e-testing system developed at Ghent University in co-operation with RAMIT. As in most systems, multiple choice, multiple select, text fields, and dropdown questions are available. Images and other multimedia components however become very important. For radiology a need for screen captures with polygons and zoom function existed. This type of question especially tests the recognition and interpretation skills of students.

Method

In October 2003 a pre-test radiology was done with medical students from the second (N = 60), third (N = 119) and fifth year (N = 85). Students were divided into groups of about 20 students per group. Some groups did the test with a timer per question, other groups with a timer per test and yet others had no timer at all. The time after the pre-test and before the exams, students had an opportunity to do e-learning with TeleTendo. In addition, a trial exam was planned. In January 2004 students from the above-mentioned years did the test (exam) again. In March 2004 students will redo the test to see what the half-life is of what they have learned.

Results

Until now few results are available. Students are tested now and in March they will be tested again. The first results however indicate a very positive balance. The teacher has the results immediately, students find this type of evaluation an honest one, and the quality of images is very high. It was also very notable that students used the e-learning system very often. The final results however will be shown at the congress.

Discussion

The use of TeleTendo is a great improvement for as well as the students as the teacher. Both the e-testing module as the e-learning module evaluated positively. However, some improvements have to be planned for the near future. The research activities will continue to focus on e-Testing, security measures, the use of integrated questions with intelligent navigation for on-line courses, extended feedback options, meta-tagging combined with domain-dependent coding schemes (e.g. MESH in the medical domain), and other multimedia question types (e.g. clickable movies, Digital I-TV, NLP).

BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:

TeleTendo is an initiative that addresses itself to e-Testing, e-Learning and Web Applications. Using Internet technology TeleTendo ensures high quality and innovative developments in e-Testing & e-Learning. As a result of concentrating on the development of innovative e-Testing solutions for several years, TeleTendo can provide a user-friendly, secure, web-based, multimedia, and domain-independent e-Testing tool. The application can be used for 1) pretest, 2) e-Learning and self-assessment (e-Testing + feedback = test-based learning), 3) examinations and polls, 4) continuous progress follow-up, and 5) functional interpretation of test results.

Buysse Heidi

Ghent University

Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics 5K3 - De Pintelaan 185

B-9000 Ghent

Belgium

Phone: +32 (0)9 - 240 54 63

Email: mailto:Heidi.Buysse@UGent.be

CO-AUTHORS:

Verstraete K. (*)

Thienpont G. (**)

De Moor G. (**)

Ghent University