mLearning for Practice Phase 2: using augmented reality to enhance lab and clinical teaching in multidisplinary health professional education and practice

TitlemLearning for Practice Phase 2: using augmented reality to enhance lab and clinical teaching in multidisplinary health professional education and practice
Faculty/College/UnitApplied Science
StatusCompleted
Duration2 Year
Initiation04/01/2013
Completion09/30/2016
Funding Details
Year 1: Project TitlemLearning for Practice Skills: Using augmented reality to enhance lab and clinical teaching
Year 1: Project YearYear 1
Year 1: Funding Year2013/2014
Year 1: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 1: Principal InvestigatorBernie Garrett
Year 1: Funded Amount13,026
Year 1: Team Members

Bernie Garrett, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science
Cathryn Jackson, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science
Brian Wilson, Project Manager, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Year 1: Summary

This project seeks funding for a mobile learning or mLearning (Crescente & Lee, 2011) project to develop and evaluate augmented reality resources to support student learning in clinical skills and lab based education. Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that turns mobile devices such as smartphones into visual augmentation devices to virtually display and superimpose digital content for the freely available “Layar” application, and use the Layar development tools to create and host the AR content. Hoppala Geo-Augmentation Web Services may also be used to add supplementary geo-location tagging data. AR resources will be created for two educational applications:

  1. Tagging of clinical lab equipment for use by students in clinical skills lab based teaching, and
  2. Tagging of items for use in a “search and identify” activity as part of a problem based learning session exploring a particular clinical scenario.

The initial target student groups for these activities will be undergraduate nursing students, but later inclusion of other health professional students is envisioned.

Year 2: Project YearYear 2
Year 2: Funding Year2014/2015
Year 2: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 2: Principal InvestigatorBernie Garrett
Year 2: Funded Amount30,760
Year 2: Team Members

Bernie Garrett, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science
Cathryn Jackson, Senior Instructor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science
Gurdeep Parhar, Associate Dean, Equity and Professionalism
Bill Miller, Associate Dean, Health Professions
Anita Parhar, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Education
Lisa Avery, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
Kim Campbell, Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine
Donna Drynan, Occupational Sciences and Occuptational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
Sue Murphy, Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
Tracey Oh, Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine
Jenna Scott, Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine
Brian Wilson, Curriculum Manager, Vantage College

Year 2: Summary

This project seeks to build upon work developed using a previous 2013/14 nursing TLEF grant - "mLearning for Practice Skills; using augmented reality to enhance lab and clinical teaching." The earlier project (still in evaluation) successfully demonstrated benefits from using augmented reality (AR) to turn mobile devices such as smartphones into visual augmentation devices to virtually display and superimpose custom digital content in context with real-world objects in the lab. This new project will expand the use of AR to faculty and students from Genetic Counseling, Medicine (undergraduate program), Midwifery, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech Sciences. We will create virtual point of interest (POI) tags and AR content for equipment and documents used in clinical training, and for orientation at clinical practice sites. AR content will be accessed using the freely available "Layar" AR application. We will develop and evaluate this AR content with input from students and educators.

Project Report14-002-Garrett-Final-WEB.pdf
Project Outcomes