Welcome to mEducator

The mEducator Best Practice Network (BPN) aims to implement and critically evaluate existing standards and reference models in the field of e-learning in order to enable specialized state-of-the-art medical educational content to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions.

 

mEducator Latest Articles

WebID Authentication module for Drupal 7.x

Posted Πέμ, 2012-01-19 10:53 by Charalampos Bratsas

Following our previous post about the WebID it is our pleasure to announce the availability of the WebID Authentication which is developed within the mEducator Project .

WebID Authentication is a module that enables a user to log in a Drupal 7.x site using a client certificat...

 

Incorporating Attention Metadata in the mEducator scheme

Posted Τρί, 2011-02-15 17:14 by Maria Nikolaidou

The Consortium is considering the incorporation of the “attention” metadata in the mEducator scheme. These additional metadata fields will provide information about which resources get attention (and by whom) in order to enhance the sharing/retrieval/repurposing process.

 

Clustering event in France, Auron

Posted Τρί, 2011-01-25 13:58 by Maria Nikolaidou

 mEducator partners are getting prepared for their 6th general assembly in France on 31 January 2011. Apart from this meeting, a clustering event will also take place, bringing together experts from highly specialized institutions such as:

- HON (Health on the Net Foundation), a non-governmental organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful, sound and reliable online medical information. In this way, HON seeks to contribute to better, more accessible and cost-effective health care.

 

WebID (OpenID FOAF and SSL)

Posted Παρ, 2010-11-12 11:12 by Charalampos Bratsas

The user identification and privacy are among the hot issues of the Social Web. The Web ID , a new form of open ID using the Linked Data could provide a solution for difficult and complicated problems like remembering login details, passwords, and sharing private information across the many websites and social groups. 

 

Martin Dougiamas at the eLearning Expo in Athens!

Posted Τρί, 2010-10-05 14:55 by Maria Nikolaidou

Martin Dougiamas, the founder of Moodle, was invited to the eLearning Expo held in Athens, on 02 & 03 October 2010.

 

SIOC and FOAF support in mEducator web site

Posted Τετ, 2010-07-14 10:05 by Charalampos Bratsas

We are pleased to inform you that the meducator site is now able to export SIOC metadata and the linking of posts by topic, creator or thread. Also the meducator site generates FOAF profile automatically. As a result, you can import profile information from external FOAF files and/or you can export a FOAF file based on your meducator profile.

 

mEducator Constructive Alignment

Posted Τρί, 2010-07-06 15:06 by Jarkko Mylläri

The value of shared learning materials in many cases relies on sharing the actual teaching practice as well. This is well captured in BPN-aspects of mEducator work aiming to promote the quality improvement in teaching medical science. It’s necessary to enable and support the sharing of best practices within the developed metadata schema.

 

Healthcare LOM editor – mEducator editor

Posted Τρί, 2010-07-06 15:09 by cs

In order to facilitate the process of creating metadata within mEducator we have decided to develop a metadata editor.

 

Metamorphosis as a testbed for the metadata scheme

Posted Τρί, 2010-07-06 15:13 by Maria Nikolaidou

In order to research on the development of an accurate and functional mEducator
metadata scheme, we have developed an environment where partners are able
to pilot implement and test the mEducator metadata description scheme.

 

Where we’ve been

Posted Τρί, 2010-07-06 15:15 by sofiareppou

mEducator was present at 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients 2010 (ICVP)
and MedBiquitous Annual Meeting Conference that took place in London at the end
of April. During the conference, visitors had the chance apart from attending
presentations and demonstrations to learn more about the new outcomes
for virtual patients, sources of electronic educational material and collaborative Internet
and how medical education can benefit from the above.