General information

Output identification

Output Code: O2
Output Title: Methodological manual
Output Type: Methodologies / guidelines – Other
Start Date: 01-09-2021
End Date: 31-07-2022
Leading Organisation: Masarykova univerzita (MU)
Participating Organisations: Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (AUTH)
Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Safarika v Kosiciach (UPJS)

Output definition

Based on the results of the O1 (detailed analysis) a methodological manual will be created for the target group of academics who participate in the preparation of online teaching.
The first part of the manual will focus mainly on course guarantors and will contain information on what is a suitable form of teaching for different types of courses - for lectures (preclinical, clinical), seminars and practical laboratory or clinical exercises. An important part will also be devoted to various methods of testing and oral examination and the prevention of cheating.
The next part of the material will be devoted to the preparation of study materials for online teaching, which will target all academic staff of medical faculties. Methodologists from project teams will prepare, based on the results of the analysis (O1) and on their own experience with the transition to online teaching from spring 2020, methodological manual for creating study materials that are suitable for online teaching, it will be mainly interactive textbooks, instructional videos, virtual patients, practice tests and others according to the needs identified in the analysis. The people in the project teams were chosen to cover all these areas with their experience.
The material will also include tips on how to conduct live online teaching so that it is effective and attractive enough for students to keep their attention.
An important part of the preparation of the methodological manual will be an online workshop, which will be attended by 5 academics from each partner institution. They will work under the guidance of methodologists with the prepared methodological manual and will provide real-time feedback to methodologists. Based on their comments, the methodological manual will be finalized.
The methodological manual will work in the form of an electronic portal, including modules, which will contain a smaller theoretical part and a larger practical part, including video tutorials, templates for creating study materials, instructions for creating virtual patients, and contacts to methodologists for academics. Due to this form of the methodological manual, a sufficient amount of work for technicians is included in the budget. We consider not only the interactive form of the methodological manual to be innovative, but also the fact that it will be targeted specifically at academics from the environment of medical faculties.
The extent will correspond to approximately 15 hours of academics’ work with the created manual. The manual will be written in English.

Division of work

The tasks will be divided among methodologists during the second online TPM (M7). Due to the fact that this is the most demanding intellectual output in terms of coordinating the work of the project teams, the main responsibility for the creation of O2 will have the applicant, i.e. Masaryk University. All members of the project teams have extensive experience in online teaching and were selected based on positive results in the transition to online teaching in the spring semester of 2020. They will therefore divide the preparation of individual parts of O2 based on their expertise (see profiles of individual partner organizations).

Tasks

T 2.1: definition of modules and their brief content
T 2.2: design of the technical form of the platform
T 2.3: preparation of the content of modules by team members
T 2.4: implementation of content into an electronic platform
T 2.5: implementation of an online workshop for academics
T 2.6: collecting feedback from academics
T 2.7: preparation of the final version of the methodological manual

Timeline

T 2.1: M7-M9
T 2.2: M7-M9
T 2.3: M10-M14
T 2.4: M12-M14
T 2.5: M15
T 2.6: M15
T 2.7: M16-M17