Three generations of NYULMC Educational Technologies:
Mission:
The Division of Educational Informatics (DEI) is an educational technology laboratory within Medical Center IT and the Dean’s Office of the NYU School of Medicine. DEI supports the goals of the School through the discovery, development and validation of new information technologies for medical education and through academic collaborations focusing on novel research and curricular transformation.
History: Division of Educational Informatics, first established in 1987 as the Hippocrates Project, is the educational technology and computer assisted learning development program of NYU Langone Medical Center. It is a multidisciplinary, faculty-student effort to identify, study, and invent the variety of ways by which computer and communication technologies can enhance the learning process. The ultimate goal of the Division is the transformation of the institution into a Knowledge Syncytium - a learning and problem-solving environment which supports access to information unfettered by time and space, which promotes the instantaneous communication of knowledge, and enhances both individual creativity and collaborative action.
DEI has moved toward its long term objectives by implementing a software, hardware and network education infrastructure and by initiating programs to attain specific goals. More than 150 medical education modules have been produced. Most have become an integral part of the curriculum as either required exercises or as primary resource materials; our materials are in use at over 20 other medical schools in the United States and Australia. The range of modules includes expository presentations, laboratory simulations, self-assessment and testing programs, three-dimensional anatomic reconstructions, animations, virtual reality environments, case studies, and databases for the medical humanities, infectious disease, patient care, and the Curriculum.
The vision of and lessons learned by the DEI are shared with a wide audience through talks and demonstrations to national organizations, seminars at other medical schools, leadership participation in a national consortium of medical schools, and by visits to the our development laboratory by administrators and faculty of national and international schools in the health sciences, by teachers in K-12 schools, and by national political leaders.
DEI Activities
- Strategic
planning for future educational technology requirements and initiatives
and active leadership of ongoing curricular transformation projects
- Working
with faculty and students to facilitate the process of content creation
and maintenance, and preparing the institution for the increased use of
computer-assisted instruction
- Working with module, clerkship and course directors
and administration to plan the best use of computer-based learning
in the curricula and in the drafting of policies for such use
- Extending
applications and developing custom educational software where needed
and in accordance with standards set forth by MCIT
- Demonstrating leadership in educational informatics research
- Contributing
on a national and international level to the development of
technologies and standards in the realm of medical educational
technology
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