Using a Learning Design ‘embed’ function to disseminate medical education learning designs

Abstract

Learning Design seeks to share effective methods for online teaching, such as templates which can be automatically run by Learning Design systems. To overcome barriers to widespread adoption, a new 'embed' function has been developed to allow teachers to view and trial a design from any public webpage – for example, a design can be embedded in a blog post. This new approach has been applied to sharing of designs developed in an ALTC project on medical student training in the scientific basis of medicine during clinical rotations in hospitals. Advantages of the new approach to sharing of medical education designs are discussed, including the ease of sharing designs among those unfamiliar with online Learning Design communities.