Virtual Patients in a Behavioral Medicine Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): A Case-Based Analysis of Technical Capacity and User Navigation Pathways.

Andrzej A Kononowicz Anne H Berman Natalia Stathakarou Cormac McGrath Tomasz Bartyński Piotr Nowakowski Maciej Malawski Nabil Zary

Published in: JMIR medical education (2015)

This study reported on first inclusion of virtual patients in a MOOC. It adds to the body of knowledge by demonstrating how a biomedical cloud provider service can ensure technical capacity and flexible design of a virtual patient platform on a massive scale. The study also presents a new way of analyzing the use of branched virtual patients by visualization of user navigation pathways. Suggestions are offered on improvements to the design of virtual patients in MOOCs.

Keyphrases

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