PBL Gamechanger: Converting Paper Cases to Online e-Learning Modules

This session will introduce you to a PBL game-changing format utilizing Articulate Storyline. Standard written medical cases studies were transitioned into e-modules allowing for better assessment of the student’s critical thinking and decision-making skills through case selection interactions.

The idea was to take the traditional case-based learning method and convert the model into a case scenario to be presented in an online environment, incentivizing correct answers and disincentivizing incorrect answers. This gamification pedagogy helps students to understand that in real-world scenarios not all diagnostics are necessary or appropriate and therefore their choices should be well thought out and intentional. The e-modules challenges learners to engage in decision-making that mirrors the clinical setting. The ending goal of the CBL e-module is to provide appropriate and cost-effective healthcare to the patient.

In this session, the presenters will discuss the e-module case study development process from planning to implementation.  During the session the audience will gain access to the e-module and experience the case via their tablet, mobile device, or wi-fi enabled laptop.  Group discussion about the Articulate Storyline implementation will commence and participants will get to see and learn about the structure of the e-module design.  Utilizing an online case development template, the audience will work in small groups to begin to develop their own case during the session.

Upon completion of this session audience members will be able to:

• -Describe how traditional medical case-based learning can be converted into an online e-learning module within a blended learning environment.
• -Identify how Articulate Storyline can be used to develop online e-modules for medical case-based learning.

*NOTE: Please bring a laptop to fully participate in the session