Recognizing that current circumstances have impacted the delivery of healthcare simulation content, CAE would like to help you make the most of your LearningSpace systems during this time.
Below we have outlined some useful approaches that can help you towards leveraging CAE LearningSpace to remotely deliver video, curricular content, asynchronous patient encounters as well as assessment.
These suggestions may not satisfy the requirements of USMLE or any other examining body whose goal is to adequately assess the examinees' clinical knowledge, interpersonal skills, etc. |
The suggestions described below are based on the assumption that Learners, Faculty, and Standardized Patients are able to access your CAE LearningSpace system from off-campus. You may need to contact your local IT and discuss modifying policies to allow temporary access in order to meet your objectives. |
Please feel free to reach out to our support team for more information about any of these suggestions. |
As an AV platform, CAE LearningSpace can be used to stream live video feeds to any computer logged in with the proper privileges and group membership.
Faculty with the Live Video or Video Control (also full control version) privileges can access live streams easily. Learners or SPs generally do not have live video access.
This can be accomplished via the following steps:
Add the learners who will need to see live video to the Faculty groups of the activities to which your live streams will be tied
If you want to stream live feeds of a Covid-19 SCE being run, you would make sure that your learners are in the faculty group of the activity you have created to capture that scenario. |
Learners who have the Live Video privilege will be able to see live streams from rooms which either:
a. Have been scheduled for or otherwise tied to Activities that the learners have been tied to, within the Faculty group.
b. Have not been scheduled or tied to any running Activity
This means that if you want learners to only access live streams from a specific room, you will want to
a. Schedule or tie that room to the Activity the Learners have access to and;
b. Schedule or tie all other rooms to an activity the Learners do not have access to.
Another, simpler option for live streaming to learners would be to utilize a single generic user account for live video access. |
The latest editions of the LearningSpace platform allow for video recorded outside of the software to be uploaded and used for assessment and annotation.
This is useful for:
Only Admin users can: Upload videos recorded outside the central management system. Delete a selected recording. Lock a selected recording or Unlock a recording if the recording is locked already. |
Beyond AV capture and debrief, your CAE LearningSpace system is a web-based platform which includes the ability to embed video and documents within a data entry interface which can be pointed towards any of your major end-user populations.
With this in mind there are a number of ways it can be put to use:
When live/in-person patient encounters are not an option due to schedule (or isolation due to pandemic), other options include:
Assuming your SPs are able and willing to come in, they can conduct remote encounters with learners via web conferencing tools (ie Skype, GoToMeeting, etc).
If you have a display capture unit in the room in use you can pull the monitor feed from the conferencing interface into LearningSpace as another camera in the room.
Assuming the audio is turned up loudly enough, the audio kit in the room would pick up both sides of the conversation. |