The ANU Medical School TELT team hosted the inaugural Show and TEL event on 9 June. This was first in a series of professional development events the team will offer under the Show and TEL banner, where experts from ANU and beyond will share their innovative teaching practices and invite you to discuss new ideas.
The event, titled Virtual Reality in Health Education, featured a talk by Associate Professor Jane Frost from the University of Canberra followed by hands-on demonstrations of virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and a fishbowl panel on the Pedagogy and Practicalities of using VR in teaching. Together, over 25 academics, clinicians, learning designers, technologists and education officers attended the event face-to-face and via livestream.
Event highlights
One of the key benefits of VR is for students to experience simulated environments that they might not otherwise have access to. For example, students can virtually visit hospital wards during lockdown, or see internal anatomical structures within the human body that are otherwise very difficult to visualise.
Watch the recording of Jane's talk
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During the panel discussion, the participants shared how time and resource intensive it is to develop VR simulations. It takes roughly 200 hours to create only 2 minutes of VR, so it’s critical that anyone trying to use it thinks very deeply about why VR is the best tool for the learning outcomes. Any XR uses need to be embedded into the teaching practice so that it complements other activities and isn’t just a novelty.
Watch the recording of the Fishbowl Panel
Thanks to the TELT team for their hard work and dedication which made this event such a great success!
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the event!
Guest speaker: Jane Frost, University of Canberra
Demonstration: Jane Frost, Alexandra Webb, Krisztina Valter-Kocsi, Riemke Aggio-Bruce with assistance from Fran Sanchez
Panelists: Bruna Contro Pretero, John Debs, Jane Frost, Siddharth Iyer, Madhawa Perera, Krisztina Valter-Kocsi, Ricky Vuckovic, Alexandra Webb
2 thoughts on “Highlights from Show and TEL”
Thank you for this post, it was a great event. I really enjoyed Jane’s presentation. Though we should also acknowledge all the VR/AR and other teaching resources we are already using in the Medical School anatomy laboratories, developed and evaluated in the past 5 years.
Hi Krisztina, I’m glad you enjoyed the event! I will update the post to include the ANUMS VR you mention as well – thanks for mentioning it 🙂