UniServe*Science News, Vol. 5, November 1996
MHSE 96: Multimedia in Health Science Education
The first Multimedia in Health Science Education Conference was held at
the Panum Institute in Copenhagen in June 1996. This was held in conjunction
with the 7th Annual Slice of Life Workshop. The videodisc Slice of Life
VII was launched at the conference, it contains 44,000 images from over
200 contributors. Al images can be used by multimedia developers for inclusion
in software modules. The conference devoted more that 70% of the time for
demonstrations and hands-on sessions. The occasion facilitated exchange
of new ideas and new teaching models and designs. On the European scene
there is a strong interest to develop teaching materials on a European scale.
The European Union have talked of collaboration and all those attending
the conference were invited to be involved. Much of the keynote addresses
and discussions were about collaborative development of multimedia, in particular
Andrew Booth (TLTP project ëBioNetí, Leeds University, UK) gave
a model for the project management of such a development. Goran Petersson
stressed the importance of collaborative evaluation of materials.
Mary Peat
maryp@bio.usyd.edu.au