From Expert Consulting to Co-creation in Medical Education; Co-creating an Exploratory Educational Space for Orthopedic Medical Education

• Published in: Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education Vol. 993; pp. 622 - 631
• Main Authors: Antoniou, Panagiotis, Bamidou, Anna, Tartanis, Ioannis, Vrellis, Ioannis, Bamidis, Panagiotis
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2019; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Subjects: Co-creation; Medical education; MUVE; OpenSim; Technology enhanced learning
• ISBN: 3030209539; 9783030209537
• ISSN: 1865-0929; 1865-0937
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_47

Medical education is increasingly turning to technology enhanced learning for facilitating the learners’ understanding of difficult concepts and honing the decision making skills of future healthcare professionals. Experiential digital content creation for medicine faces the challenge of keeping up with the rapidly growing volume of medical knowledge. A suggested avenue for addressing this challenge is the use of co-creative methodologies in order to engage the expert medical user base in the content creation process. This work describes the prototyping of such a co-creative process through several orthopedic educational topics. The design process of the content is described, along with the provision for facilitating a non-tech savvy expert towards the co-creative endeavor. Initial insights along with future steps for evaluation of this process are also discussed.