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Immersive Learning Environments at Duke (ILE@D)
ILE@D is a three-dimensional, collaborative world accessible from any Internet-connected computer that provides an innovative, interactive “front-end” to distance education in the health care professions. ILE@D maximizes face-to-face interactions between teachers and students through self-directed, team-based, and facilitator led preparatory activities in the virtual environment. While in the beginning phases of development, we have a grand vision for building a generic education framework which can support a variety of inter-professional healthcare training scenarios. The Duke Endowment is providing $2.8M in funding over the next 5 years to initiate this effort with the goal of making the platform broadly available to the healthcare community.
We are designing a flexible architecture to allow creation of a library of locales, tools, medicines, procedures, patient profiles, events, and avatar responses. Once these libraries are created, they can be shared across a range of scenarios. The ILE@D framework, which supports open standards, and a plug-in architecture will become the hub of virtual health care education. Duke sees this as a key opportunity to change the game by allowing students to gain knowledge in the ways that best suite them (individual, online teams, and in person team based learning environments). ILE@D is seen as a key component of a larger Team Based Learning curriculum which is shared between the Duke University School of Medicine and Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School. This tool allows students to learn procedures and technologies offline so that class time is devoted towards collaborative exploration rather than static lectures.
- Anywhere, anytime access to virtual, interactive health care education that encourages collaboration and communication regardless of location
- Engaging 3D virtual world that immerses the student in realistic health care scenarios, allowing them to practice their skills and reasoning individually or groups
- Adheres to existing standards for virtual worlds and Learning Management Systems
- Leverages existing educational resources and investments (e.g. BlueDocs)
Duke University is excited to announce a Request For Information for the development of a 3D virtual healthcare training platform (ILE@D-Immersive Learning Environments at Duke). Responses are due December 15, 2010. Please forward this notice to vendors who might have experience in this area or who have unique technologies that enhance collaboration, learning, assessment, and simulation in educational virtual worlds.
Please send questions and responses to Michael Steele at 919-809-9001, michael.steele@duke.edu.
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Simulation Center Staff
Director
Jeffrey Taekman, MD [CV] | [Email]
Associate Director
Sharon Hawks, CRNA
Director of Research
Senior Human Factors Engineer
Melanie Wright, PhD [CV]
Technician/Coordinator
Gene Hobbs, CHT
Human Factors Engineer
Noa Segall, PhD
ILE@D Project Manager
Michael Steele
Advisory Committee
Ed Buckley, MD
Jonathan Mark, MD
J. Victor Nadler, PhD
Mark Newman, MD
Barbara Turner, RN, DNSc, FAAN
Facilitators
Bob Blessing, MS
Charles S. Brudney, MD
Anna Lisa Crowley, MD
Peter Dwane, MD
John Eck, MD
Ellen Flanagan, MD PhD
Stuart Grant, MD
Katherine Grichnik, MD
Lou Hodgins, MD
Richard Ing, MD
John Keifer, MD
Nancy Knudsen, MD
Catherine Kuhn, MD
Judith Margolis, MD
Jonathan Mark, MD
Eugene Moretti, MD
Meredith Muncy, CRNA, MS
Adeyemi Olufolabi, MD
Cathleen Peterson-Layne, MD, PhD
Erin Rose, MD
Becky Schroeder, MD
Bret Stolp, MD, PhD
Jim Temo, CRNA, MSN, MBA
Robert Waugh, MD
Visiting Faculty
Marcia Corvetto, MD
Fellows
David Josephs, MD
Resident Scholars
Ryan Fink, MD
Resident Facilitators
Juliann Hobbs, MD
David Martin, MD
VA Simulation
Atilio Barbeito, MD
Alberto Bonifacio, RN, BSN
Jonathan Mark, MD
Rebecca Schroeder, MD
Staff Assistant
Cheryl L. Jacobs |
