Educational Technology SIG
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Educational Technology SIG
Met: Oct. 25, 2019; Orlando, FL
Chair: Jeff Perotti
Topics of Discussion:
- Funding for Clinical and Lab Equipment
- Lab fees
- Development
- Requests to larger unit
- Donations are in decline
- Current Electronic Health Record Status and Issues
- Most schools are staying with current EHR
- Current ERx Status and Issues
- No significant issues reported
- Current Image Management System Status and Issues
- Merge will be discontinued soon
- Forum seems to be the preferred vendor at most schools, and most report being happy with it
- Simulation in the Realm of Optometric Education
- In conjunction with the Clinical Optometric Methods and Procedures SIG, those who use VR Magic simulators seem to have mixed feelings about them
- Those who love them seem to report no real issues
- Those who don’t love the simulators seem to have breakage issues
- All seem to report issues with the learning modules – could be more robust
- ExamSoft/Electronic Test Administration
- Most are happy with ExamSoft
- Questions about how best to provide student feedback on tests/quizzes without releasing the actual test
- Strategies include:
- Descriptively categorize questions and release the categories to students
- Descriptively title questions and release the question titles to students
- Place learning outcomes associated with the question in the rational portion of each question, and release the rationales to students
- From all these, the student should be clearly guided to the topic area they need to work on
- LMS System Status and Issues
- No significant issues reported
- Push for institutions to provide training to effectively utilize LMS systems to maximize the learning potential of the system and our students
- Potential Educational Technology SIG Projects for the Year
- Invite ExamSoft to speak of new product line
- Invite Anatomage to speak of anatomy simulation
- Invite VR Magic to demonstrate new virtual slit lamp
