Case Study: Learning Hands-On Skills Using the ApprenNet Video Platform
[Presented at the NE eLearning Consortium Conference at Gwynedd Mercy University on 10/20/2015] Can something as hands-on and complex as physical and occupational therapy be taught remotely? Learn how one school, the University of the Sciences, uses ApprenNet, a video-based learning solution, to train the next generation of health professionals. What is ApprenNet? ApprenNet is a video-based platform where skills are practiced and assessed within a community of peers and experts. Instructors build three stage-learning exercises that offer an opportunity for Learners to develop skills through role-play, peer interactivity, and coaching. Case Study: University of the Sciences The University of the Sciences believes that simulation is a powerful tool for preparing students for the real world of healthcare. The program prides itself on experiential learning. However, with more than 2,000 students, instructors struggle to give students adequate time to practice real world skills. In 2012, we discovered a potential solution – ApprenNet. In ApprenNet, we saw a means to provide all students frequent opportunity to practice skills without overcrowding in the simulation lab or overburdening the professor with hours upon hours of grading. For the last two years, University of the Sciences has used ApprenNet to increase practical skills training in its PT and OT programs. As is the case with early adopters, they discover new ways to leverage the platform that the founders did not consider. Dr. Murray is going to demonstrate a series of use cases to demonstrate the multiple ways instructors can use ApprenNet to teach something as hands-on and complex as healthcare science online. Copyright (C) 2015 Rodney B. Murray, PhD
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Case Study: Learning Hands-On Skills Using the ApprenNet Video Platform
- 1. Case Study: Learning Hands-On Skills Using the ApprenNet Video Platform. Rodney B. Murray, PhD Executive Director Academic Technology Services University of the Sciences
- 2. Agenda • Introductions • What is ApprenNet? • University of the Sciences: Case Study
- 3. University of the Sciences • Private, comprehensive, coeducational. Founded in 1821. First school of pharmacy in North America. • 17 buildings on 35 acres in the University City area of Philadelphia, PA • ~3,000 Student FTEs • 25 majors through four colleges
- 4. Our Pharmacy Legacy • Dr. Eli Lilly • Gerald F. Rorer • William R. Warner • Robert L. McNeil, Jr. • John Wyeth • Silas M. Burroughs • Sir Henry S. Wellcome Est. 1821
- 5. • Philadelphia College of Pharmacy – Pharmacy – Pharmaceutical Science • Misher College of Arts and Sciences – 13 Programs • Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy – 5 Programs • Samson College of Health Sciences – Exercise Science and Wellness Management – Health Science – Healthcare Navigation – Occupational Therapy – Physical Therapy – Physician Assistant Studies Programs @USciences
- 6. Challenge Develop an online learning platform that mimics a highly interactive and effective live classroom experience
- 7. Why? These types of classrooms build skills. An online platform that mimicked these types of classrooms would help instructors scale skill development.
- 8. Key Components The components of a highly interactive and effective classroom involve: Practice Feedback Coaching/Mentoring
- 9. Practice
- 10. Feedback
- 11. Mentoring
- 12. ApprenNet Faculty Use Survey
- 13. • 9 Instructors in Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy departments • 36 Assignments • 1,219 Student Submissions • Fall ‘13, Spring & Fall ’14, Spring ‘15 ApprenNet @USciences
- 14. Preparing for ApprenNet # of Instructors
- 15. Easy to Use Very Hard Very Easy
- 16. Features Used # of Instructors
- 17. Assignment Variety # of Instructors
- 18. Used for Credit
- 19. Increased Future Use Increased Use Same Use
- 21. What were the Greatest Strengths of using ApprenNet? Quotes from faculty…
- 22. “Great way to handle presentations in large classes” “Efficient platform to give and get feedback”
- 23. “Best way to learn from peers” “Weaker students learn from stronger students”
- 24. “…allowed students to feel valuable in a larger class while also sharing intimate feelings … with the instructors”
- 25. “Good way to hear [important concepts] over and over again in various ways and not all from me as the teacher.”
- 27. What were the Biggest Drawbacks of using ApprenNet? “Had some difficulties with uploading at times” Note: upload speed has significantly improved since the early days.
- 28. ApprenNet – Alternative Uses
- 30. ShowMe Exercise
- 33. #1 Provides frequent opportunities to practice skills
- 34. #2 Peer instruction engages students in their own learning
- 35. #3 Significantly reduces the grading burden on the professor
- 36. #4 Provides practice for tele-rehabilitation and tele-medicine
- 37. #5 Promising tool for the growing adoption of competency-based education
- 38. Acknowledgments • USciences Faculty – Emily Bubel, PT – Eric Folkins, PT, DPT, OCS – Wendy Fox, MOT, OTR/L – Lisa Hoglund, PT, PhD, OCS, Cert MDT – Mark Nestor, EdD – Karin Silbernagel , PT, PhD, ATC – Shaun Varrecchia, DPT, GCS, Cert MDT – Rondalyn Whitney, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
- 39. Acknowledgments • Emily Foote, Co-Founder & COO ApprenNet
- 40. Questions? • r.murray@usciences.edu • Insidehighered.com/ThePulse • www.RodsPulsePodcast.com • www.linkedin.com/in/rodneymurray • Twitter: @rodspods
Editor's Notes
- Launched careers of many innovative pioneers, including founders of world’s leading pharmaceutical firms
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- The ‘other’ responses were mostly me and my staff.
- Of course, all used Peer Review, or otherwise it wouldn’t make much sense to use ApprenNet. Expert Response means that students saw the instructor or expert video. Top Reviewed means that they used the “leader board” Featured videos meant that the instructor could highlight those videos thay may have not been highly rated by their peers, but were, nontheless, very good examples. Discussion: in the Recap stage you can create a Discussion Thread Timestamps can be used when commenting on a particular time point in the video. Rubrics can be used to coach students on how to rate and give feedback to their peers.
- Other: online poster session
- All faculty are committed to using ApprenNet in the future, with 44% wanting to increase its use.
- Highly recommended
- Helps make a large class feel more intimate
- You learned from Ryan how instructors can present schenarious for students to respond to. Here are some alternate use cases
- 3.5 minute Btw, Rondalyn is now chair of OT at Clarkson University
- On average students create 3 videos before they upload their final response From Paul Freedman new CEO of ApprenNet.
- Rather than just being told what to learn Apprenticeship
- An area of emerging practice in OT
- An area of emerging practice in OT
- I invite you to connect with me. In the interest of full disclosure, I am not paid by ApprenNet or have any financial interest Have you hear of University of the Sciences? Usciences?