Students? Emotions in Simulation-Based Medical Education

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Heli Ruokamo

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 28, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 149–159

Medical education is emotionally charged for many reasons, especially the fact that simulation-based learning is designed to generate emotional experiences. However, there are very few studies that concentrate on learning and emotions, despite...

Healthcare facilitators’ and students’ conceptions of teaching and learning – An international case study

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Heli Ruokamo; Olli Väisänen; David Gaba

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 62, No. 1 (2013) pp. 175–186

Conceptions of teaching and learning affect approaches to teaching, learning and learning outcomes, and they therefore need to be made explicit. This study addresses how healthcare simulation facilitators and students view teaching and learning....

Language: English

A Computer-Based Simulation to Enhance Official Communication in the Health Care Process— How Does it Promote the Facilitating and Learning Processes?

Paula Poikela; Heli Ruokamo; Tuulikki Keskitalo

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 2051–2060

ABSTRACT: One of the big gaps in all routine daily health care and social sector processes is poor com-munication. The goal of this study is to examine how to teach and enhance the use of the TETRA phone in communication. Educating a huge amount of...

Topics: research, Other

Teachers' Conceptions and Their Approaches to Teaching in Virtual Reality and Simulation-Based Learning Environments

Tuulikki Keskitalo

Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice Vol. 17, No. 1 (February 2011) pp. 131–147

This research article focuses on virtual reality (VR) and simulation-based training, with a special focus on the pedagogical use of the Virtual Centre of Wellness Campus known as ENVI (Rovaniemi, Finland). In order to clearly understand how teachers ...

Does teaching method affect learning and how meaningful learning is from student perspectives?

Paula Poikela; Heli Ruokamo; Tuulikki Keskitalo

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1760–1768

This study examines how two different teaching methods affect learning in two first-year nursing student groups trained to use the TETRA phone. One group listened to a lecture on the TETRA phone and the second group learned to use it through a...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Teaching/Learning Strategies, improving classroom teaching

Students' expectations of the learning process in virtual reality and simulation-based learning environments

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Tuulikki Keskitalo

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 28, No. 5 (Jan 01, 2012)

Expectations for simulations in healthcare education are high; however, little is known about healthcare students' expectations of the learning process in virtual reality (VR) and simulation-based learning environments (SBLEs). This research aims to ...

Language: English

Towards Expertise - Pedagogical Approaches and Educational Tools in a Virtual Learning Environment for Health and Welfare

Tuulikki Keskitalo

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3799–3808

The article deals with the educational uses of virtual learning environments (VLE), with a particular focus on ENVI –a VLE used in teaching health and welfare – and the theoretical per-spectives for analysing teachers’ pedagogical, subject matter...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Health, Research Methods, Virtual Environments

Theoretical and pedagogical underpinnings of simulation-based healthcare and medical education

Tuulikki Keskitalo

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1085–1093

This thematic review aims to examine the learning theories and pedagogical models that have been used in simulation-based education in healthcare and medicine. The study reviewed 53 quantitative and qualitative studies in which underlying theories...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Research Methods

Engagement Enhances Well-Being in Simulation-Based Healthcare Education

Heli Ruokamo; Tuulikki Keskitalo

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 138–147

There is no previous studies focused on student engagement and well-being within healthcare education. The aim of this study is to examine connection between student engagement and well-being in order to better understand their role in simulation...

Topics: Institution-Specific Cases

Literature Review – XR in Medical and Healthcare Education

Nan Li; Tuulikki Keskitalo

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2022 (Jun 20, 2022) pp. 764–772

XR technology could bridge the real and virtual worlds on different levels. With the development of extended reality (AR, MR, and VR), it has been applied widely in people’s daily lives, but also in higher education, especially in medical and...

Topics: Virtual reality learning environments

Students? Emotions in Simulation-Based Medical Education

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Heli Ruokamo

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 719–725

Medical education is emotionally charged for many reasons, especially the fact that simulation-based learning is designed to generate emotional experiences. However, there are very few studies that concentrate on learning and emotions, despite...

Topics: research, Instructional Design

How to Design Effective Healthcare Computer-based Simulation Games

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Heli Ruokamo

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 341–348

This thematic research review is aimed at synthesizing the knowledge we already have regarding the effective design principles for and implementation of computer-based simulation games in healthcare education. In particular, the aim of this study is ...

Topics: Design Principles, pedagogical issues, interactive learning environments

Best of Finland: Adult Playfulness in Simulation-based Healthcare Education

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Marjaana Kangas; Heli Ruokamo

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 2316–2324

Abstract: In many studies, simulation-based healthcare education has been observed to be enjoyable and meaningful. The objectives of simulation-based learning can be multifaceted, such as learning basic resuscitation or more complex crisis resource...

Topics: Simulations for learning

Exploring the Meaningful Learning of Students in Second Life

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Elli Pyykko; Heli Ruokamo

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 14, No. 1 (2011) pp. 16–26

This study reports a case study in which a pedagogical model, namely the Global Virtual Education (GloVEd) model, which is based on the teaching-studying-learning process (TSL process) and the characteristics of meaningful learning, is developed and ...

How does the facilitating, training and learning model support characteristics of meaningful learning in a simulation-based learning environment from facilitators` and students` perspectives?

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Heli Ruokamo; Olli Väisänen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 1736–1746

This study aims to develop and test a pedagogical model for a simulation-based learning environment in healthcare education on the basis of a design-based research (DBR) method. The model is based on the ideas of facilitating, training and learning (...

Facilitators’ and Students’ Conceptions of Teaching and Learning in Simulation-Based Learning Environment

Tuulikki Keskitalo; Heli Ruokamo; Olli Väisänen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 2215–2224

Conceptions of teaching and learning affect the approaches to teaching and learning, as well as learning outcomes, and therefore need to be made explicit. Here the research question is as follows: How do facilitators and students view teaching and...