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ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY

OF THESSALONIKI

MEDICAL EDUCATIONINFORMATICSRESEARCHGROUP

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY

OF THESSALONIKI

Medical School, Faculty of Health SciencesLab of Medical Physics

OKFN Greece

Members of MEI have also founded OKFN Greece which is the

official chapter of Open Knowledge Founda�on in Greece, a

non-governmental organiza�on that pursues openness and public

informa�on freedom in Greece, through par�cipa�on and transpa-

rency ac�vi�es. It is supported by a na�onal network of volunteers

most of which are experienced professionals in the fields of

Computer Science, Mathema�cs, Medicine, Journalism etc.

Members of the local chapter had previously created the first Greek

Linked Open Data Cloud consis�ng mainly of government data nodes

(Clarity programme, criminality data, wildfires data).

OKFN Greece members have undertaken the Greek DBpedia rea-

liza�on, crea�ng the Interna�onalized Extrac�on Framework, which

further led to the establishment of the DBpedia Interna�onaliza�on

Commi�ee. OKFN Greece has also led the Open Data ac�vi�es in

Greece and has built the Greek Open Data Hub, a central repository

of the Greek open datasets, ge�ng praise from the European

Commission's Vice President, Neelie Kroes.

Conferences, Workshops and Events organized by the Group:- Special Track on Mobile Health Care and Training within the IMCL 2014 conference (http://medphys.med.auth.gr/mei/mobilehealth)- Special Track on Medical Education Enhanced by Technology and Computer Driven Simulation withinthe CBMS2013 conference- International Conference on Medical Education Informatics 2012 (www.mei2012.org)- 1st International Spring School on “Medical Education Content Sharing Technologies” (www.mei2012.org/spring-school)- Special Track on Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education within the following past conferences: CBMS2007, CBMS2008, CBMS2009, CBMS2010, CBMS2012

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Group Publications can be found at http://medphys.med.auth.gr/mei/publications

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international projects in collaboration with several healthcare

institutions of the EU and the rest of the world. Moreover, it

demonstrates strong management capacity having

coordinated a large number of E

FP7, LIFELONG LEARNING, and INTERREG programmes.

examples of relevant projects:

The Medical Education Informatics Research Group

(MEI) focuses on exploring shifting paradigms in

education and breakthroughs in information

technologies for implementation in novel and

impactful learning modalities in healthcare

education. The group consists of a diverse scientific

pool ranging from healthcare and education experts

such as medical doctors and academics all the way

to technology experts such as engineers IT specialists

and programmers. Research in the MEI-RG follows

several axes.

Facilities/Infrastructure � 3 Powerful web servers holding the elearning, virtual patients and web repositories of the Lab. The group is respon

environment (eleanring.med.auth.gr) and the virtual patients pool of the Medical School (vp.med.auth.gr).

� Three medical educational resource repositories and web collaboration environments (semantic social� MELINA+ (Medical Education Linked Arena, http://www.meducator3.net/melinaplus/)

� MILES+ Medical Inter-Linked Educational Space (http://kedip.med.auth.gr/meducator3/milesplus/)

� LinkedLabyrinthPlus or its advance OpenLabyrinth3.0 (http://vp.med.auth.gr)

� A 26 telecontrol Audience Response System for interactive learning. � Peripheral recordings systems for educational experiments: 3 skin conductance devices for recordings in shielded environments

wireless connection for physiological monitoring

� 19 touchscreen units for training

� a purpose built prototype system on smart rehabilitation & exergaming

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pedagogies in medical (and dental) education focusing on experiential and active learning such as problem based learning and case/scenario-based learning; virtual patients and the gamification of content aims to provide medical students and overall healthcare learners with rich interactive educational content in order to facilitate their need for rapid absorption of the ever evolving healthcare curriculum. Mobile learning is also researched both from the technical development (use of contemporary technologies and environments for developing apps) and the pedagogical points of view.

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The MEI-RG is an active participant in a number of

international projects in collaboration with several healthcare

institutions of the EU and the rest of the world. Moreover, it

demonstrates strong management capacity having

coordinated a large number of EU grants in eContentPlus,

FP7, LIFELONG LEARNING, and INTERREG programmes. See

examples of relevant projects:

• ePBLnet: MEI coordinates the Supraregional network for medical curriculum

transformation with e

http://www.epblnet.eu) funded by the Tempus program;

• mEducator: MEI has successfully coordinated an eContentPlus project on

Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education (mEducator,

http://www.meducator.net/)

• DISCOVER: MEI actively participates with technical developments and pilot

design and deployment of trials for carers of elderly within the CIP

DISCOVER project (http://www.discover4carers.eu/).

• CHILDRENHEALTH: MEI co

project between Greece and FYROM dealing, among other issues, with

education of health professionals and the general population on issues of

obesity and cardiovascular diseases starting from the infancy.

• Millennium Hosp

Lifelong Learning Programme and aims at the delivery of eLearning content in

the Italian Continuing Medical Education by adopting best practices,

innovations and quality standards from the mEduca

(http://www.millenniumhospital.it/en/project/overview)

• WHAAM: The project is funded by the

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

other partners are

interventions and an e

(www.whaamproject.eu).

• CROSSBORDERHEALTH: The project aimed at the promotion of the border

areas rural doctor's medical education in

medicine with the use of multimedia and the internet. It was successfully

completed in 2008 by MEI, involving cross

and Bulgaria to identify

• INTRAMEDNET: MEI has contributed to the development of a medical

educational/research intranet between higher education & research institutions

from Greece, Italy & Cyprus to disseminate web

and promote rese

(http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/intramednet)

• WIDEMEDNET: MEI participated in a wide online medical education

institutions’ alliance which created an open system for inserting and sharing

educational resources in a di

educational technologies

• OpenLabyrinth3.0: The Group collaborates with the University of Calgary in

building the interface and semantically extending the old version of the Virtual

Patient platform OpenLabyr

• UroEDU: The Group has transferred advances of social media and semantic

web technologies from the mEducator project into Continuing Education for

Urology and constructed the responsive web site, gaming and virtual patient

case for the educational act

Diseases (http://www.imop.gr/en)

• C4C: The Group collaborates with psychology and secondary school

counseling experts for building up affective gaming environments for

moderating the bad psychological im

(connecting4caring.gr).

• CAMEI: Funded under FP7 as a coordination and support action to foster IT

skills for healthcare workforce in the EU and USA. It aims to coordinate research

activities/policies towards the development of educational

transnational access to research infrastructures and establish a network of best

practices in Medical Education Informatics. (http://www.camei

3 Powerful web servers holding the elearning, virtual patients and web repositories of the Lab. The group is responsible for the Moodle based e-learning

environment (eleanring.med.auth.gr) and the virtual patients pool of the Medical School (vp.med.auth.gr).

Three medical educational resource repositories and web collaboration environments (semantic social-media rich collaborative environments): MELINA+ (Medical Education Linked Arena, http://www.meducator3.net/melinaplus/)

Linked Educational Space (http://kedip.med.auth.gr/meducator3/milesplus/)

Peripheral recordings systems for educational experiments: 3 skin conductance devices for recordings in shielded environments, wearable sensor systems with

innovations in remote healthcare education, through ICTs facilitate continuous healthcare training for professionals as well as citizens in remote areas by bringing the expert close to the learner and keeping the level of healthcare expertise consistent irrespectively of the professional’s distance from large educational or healthcare institutions (Universities, Hospitals). Recently the group has involved in the training of care givers (formal and informal ones too) for special target groups like the elderly, the disabled and the chronic

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information communication technologies (ICTs), especially e-learning standards and semantic technologies, aims to facilitate the aggregation, repurposing and reusability of the ever expanding healthcare educational content with overall goal the consolidation of healthcare education resources, their discoverability and availability to the widest part of its consumers. The Group holds a huge experience in social media, “mashup” technologies, as well as, semantic web technologies, linked (open) data/big data and learning analystics with considerable involvement in funded national and international projects.

ePBLnet: MEI coordinates the Supraregional network for medical curriculum

transformation with e-problem based learning and Virtual patients (ePBLnet,

http://www.epblnet.eu) funded by the Tempus program;

mEducator: MEI has successfully coordinated an eContentPlus project on

type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education (mEducator,

www.meducator.net/)

DISCOVER: MEI actively participates with technical developments and pilot

design and deployment of trials for carers of elderly within the CIP-ICT-PSP

DISCOVER project (http://www.discover4carers.eu/).

CHILDRENHEALTH: MEI co-ordinated a regional/cross-border collaboration

project between Greece and FYROM dealing, among other issues, with

education of health professionals and the general population on issues of

obesity and cardiovascular diseases starting from the infancy.

Millennium Hospital: The Millenium Hospital (MHeL) project is funded by the

Lifelong Learning Programme and aims at the delivery of eLearning content in

the Italian Continuing Medical Education by adopting best practices,

innovations and quality standards from the mEducator and Mirror Projects.

(http://www.millenniumhospital.it/en/project/overview)

WHAAM: The project is funded by the EC to support students with Attention

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and their parents and teachers. MEI and

other partners are currently developing a Web Application to monitor student

interventions and an e-Learning module on ICT-based interventions

(www.whaamproject.eu).

CROSSBORDERHEALTH: The project aimed at the promotion of the border

areas rural doctor's medical education in topics of technology and social

medicine with the use of multimedia and the internet. It was successfully

completed in 2008 by MEI, involving cross-border cooperation between Greece

and Bulgaria to identify & cover the needs of public health of the border areas.

INTRAMEDNET: MEI has contributed to the development of a medical

educational/research intranet between higher education & research institutions

from Greece, Italy & Cyprus to disseminate web-based lectures and seminars

and promote research collaborations through shared workspaces

(http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/intramednet)

WIDEMEDNET: MEI participated in a wide online medical education

institutions’ alliance which created an open system for inserting and sharing

educational resources in a distributed repository and disseminated innovative

educational technologies

OpenLabyrinth3.0: The Group collaborates with the University of Calgary in

building the interface and semantically extending the old version of the Virtual

Patient platform OpenLabyrinth.

UroEDU: The Group has transferred advances of social media and semantic

web technologies from the mEducator project into Continuing Education for

Urology and constructed the responsive web site, gaming and virtual patient

case for the educational activities of the Institute for the study of Urological

Diseases (http://www.imop.gr/en)

C4C: The Group collaborates with psychology and secondary school

counseling experts for building up affective gaming environments for

moderating the bad psychological impacts of crisis in teenager behaviours

(connecting4caring.gr).

unded under FP7 as a coordination and support action to foster IT

skills for healthcare workforce in the EU and USA. It aims to coordinate research

activities/policies towards the development of educational programs, to foster

transnational access to research infrastructures and establish a network of best

practices in Medical Education Informatics. (http://www.camei-project.eu)