Between 11 and 14 April, we held a conference for leaders, teachers and students. Over 70 participants joined this succesfull meeting. We shared experiences on using EDEMTET, practised together, held train-the-trainers and train-the-students sessions, discussed and planned actions to.further develop and improve the project and course materials, and informed all participants on the project’s progress.…
EDEMTET Seminar on Case-Based Teaching, held in Nanjing university. The first implementation of the courses has been evaluated; overall, students and teachers had positive experiences, and had good suggestions for further improvements. Meanwhile, an external auditor has evaluated the project and stressed that we are proceeding in the right way, with many highly useful outputs…
Prof. Nico Creugers of Radboud University, Nijmegen, gave a presentation on EDEMTET at the at the 8th China-ASEAN Forum on Dentistry on 17 November. Meanwhile, the first part of the courses have been implemented; at the moment the students are working together on assignments in the course ‘Clinical reasoning’. Behind the scenes, Our Moodle developer…
During the IADR (International Association of Dental Research) meeting, an online seminar on EDEMTET was held, including 4 sessions by Prof Bian Zhuan, Prof Gerry McKenna, Prof Nico Creugers and Prof Wenxia. We shared our project, its aims, progress, outputs and potential, with enthusiastic international dental researchers, dentists and dental educators. Meanwhile, we started implementation…
The Sandbox functionality has been completed – so that partners can select and use patient cases for any desired purpose. Assignment templates and examples are ready. We are now finalizing the last tutorials of the first three courses. A student journey (demo) has been developed; this shows the educational flow of the platform, and in…
A plan for the programming of data representation through the different dashboards has been made. Platform items are gradually completed; the project workspace filled. A template on treatment plan construction and reflection has been developed. So far, around 120 patient cases have been supplied and entered. All partners are now working on tutorial production. An…
The platform menu structure has been finalized and implemented, glossaries installed, and a zoom (video) module installed. Course formats that integrate use of patient cases, assignments and tutorials in courses are now being constructed. The first tutorial, on shared decision making, has now been put into H5P format and is available on the platform, as…
The pilot version of the Moodle platform in China (Wuhan) has been tested successfully; all functions work. The design of courses and platform, educational flows and EDEMTET competencies are now being elaborated. Around 100 patient cases have been supplied. 5 tutorials are about to be entered in first formal revision round. Next step is to…
The Moodle company has developed and implemented design and launched the first pilot version of the EDEMTET platform. The tutorial format has now been completed, including instructions for how to build a tutorial. Teachers of all partners have been trained to build the tutorials. Around 80 patient cases have been supplied. A student team that…
A Moodle company (OpenEdu) has been contracted to realize the technical development of the platform and courses, the development of plugins, selection of a Chinese Moodle partner, and online education design. Meanwhile we have started to develop the training of EDEMTET teachers and students. The patient case format is now being used by all partners…
