100 Virtual Lessons - A Work in Progress of the Virtual Medical Campus Graz

The Virtual Medical Campus (VMC) Graz was developed as a project supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Austria. Initially, the VMC was designed as an information system providing supportive educational material for conventional lectures and seminars. The ongoing project "100 virtual lessons" is a further development of the VMC towards the introduction of blended learning, replacing some of the physical lessons by virtual educational units. Milestones of the project are the development of 30 virtual lessons by the end of 2004 and of the remaining 70 virtual lessons by the end of 2005. The authors of the virtual lessons are supported by a project team, which is not only limited to technical support, but gives also didactic advice and help. Each of the learning objects designed for virtual lessons will be reviewed and assessed by the project team. The project "100virtual lessons" will help the students by reducing their time schedule to some degree, and will save teaching resources which will in turn be invested into smallgroup teaching sessions. The Virtual Medical Campus Graz itself will gain an increasing number of quality-assessed new learning objects.

08.12.2004 | Josef Smolle, Reinhard Staber, Andreas Holzinger, Elke Jamer & Gilbert Reibnegger (Graz)