Chatbots Enhance personalised European Healthcare Curricula Erasmus Project

Project Title

Chatbots Enhance personalised European Healthcare Curricula

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Personalised Healthcare education is more than ever needed nowadays. There is a growing evidence around chatbots, a machine conversation systems, that these programs have the potential to change the way students learn and search for information. Chatbots can quiz existing knowledge, enable higher student engagement with a learning task or support higher-order cognitive activities. In large-scale learning scenarios with more than 100 students per lecturer, chatbots are able to solve the problem of individual student support and contribute to personalised learning. However, limited examples of chatbots in European Healthcare Curricula have been utilised to combine both the continuum of cognitive processes presented in Bloom’s taxonomy with the idea that some repetitive tasks can be done with a chatbot to provide greater access or to scale faculty time. Thus, CEPEH strategic partnership will create open access chatbots utilising artificial intelligence promoting innovative practices in digital era, by supporting current curricula and fostering open education.
The aim of CEPEH strategic partnership is to co-design and implement new pedagogical approaches and in particular chatbots for European Medical and Nursing schools. The CEPEH will use participatory design to engage stakeholders (students, healthcare workforce staff, lecturers, clinicians, etc.) in order to co-design effective chatbots and release them as open access resources. Through CEPEH effective use of digital technologies and open education will be incorporated into healthcare curricula. This will enable students to increase their health and medical related skills from offering flexible learning.

A multidisciplinary group of experts in online pedagogies, clinical and academic staff, learning technologists, researchers, computer scientists and representatives of medical and nursing students will participate in project activities.

Initially identification, consensus and quality assurance of the chatbot themes and scenarios will be made, followed by training of teaching and technical staff on co-design and implementation methodologies. Next, Chatbots will be co-designed followed by technical development of them. Then, analysis of feasibility and acceptability of chatbots, co-design and implementation best practices and recommendations for use will follow.

Dissemination of results will happen at two phases: Initially dissemination at local, national and international level using virtual channels to inform about the created cahtbots in order to attract more learners from other universities for analysing the feasibility and the acceptability and secondly dissemination of the project outcomes through a multiplier event, publications in journal and conferences, social media and websites, press and internal and external networks of partners. Project manager will ensure the high quality and on time activities of the project.

The CEPEH outputs will be 4 chatbots powered by AI for medical and nursing students; trained teaching staff (16) on co-design methodologies; best practices for co-design and implementation methodology for chatbots; Analysis of feasibility and acceptance of chatbots and recommendations for use in terms of pedagogical aspects; at least 100 trained students on health related skills using chatbots.

CEPEH expects that students will adopt this new digital pedagogy and improve their skills and competences through flexible personalised learning, while the teaching staff will enhance their e-learning tool co-creation competences and make use of co-design best practices and recommendation for use. It is also expected increased cooperation between the partners. Thus, CEPEH in the long term expect to influence the development of medical and nursing curricula with this digital innovation, foster the quality of the future healthcare workforce and further improve international competitiveness of the partners’ healthcare curricula.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 373555 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM & Country: UK

Project Partners

• CYENS – CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
• KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
• ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS