Mike Sales, Ann Thanaraj
Saturday 21st March
10:15am
Track 3: The Henry Thomas Room
Mike Sales and Ann Thanaraj will be discussing the use of WordPress as a platform to run Virtual Clinics in academic and business settings.
Virtual clinics are used in many academic areas such as law, engineering and medicine. It is becoming increasingly clear that simulations can be used for educational purposes, but how can they be used most effectively with students?
These virtual clinics are experiential simulations based upon case-studies or scenarios, and include role-play and activity, often collaborative, in an authentic environment that in some way or other re-constructs aspects of real-life tasks.
Our implementation takes advantage of the inbuilt multi-site capabilities of WordPress for the creation of individual clinics, along with third party plugins including MultiNetwork to manage individual institutions and BuddyPress to provide the tools uses by individual clinics.