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The Biomedical, Education, Skills and Training (BEST) Network is an NBN-Funded community of leading universities and biomedical industry bodies, set to transform Biomedical education online. The $3.3M project will develop a shared suite of web based simulation tools and medical education resources, on top of the Smart Sparrow Adaptive eLearning platform.

The UNSW School of Medicine is spearheading the project and will oversee the delivery of the BEST Network to Universities, TAFEs and High Schools across Australia. Each of the Project Partners will be involved in developing and trialling new Adaptive eLearning Tutorials and educational resources, while Smart Sparrow provides the software development and servicing for the project. The Adaptive Tutorials are unique in their ability to create learning pathways that adapt to individual students, provide targeted feedback and track the performance of each student in real time.

Tutorials already in use at UNSW School of Medicine include Virtual Patients in exercise physiology, Virtual Microscopy Adaptive Tutorials (VMATs), which teach histology and histopathology, and an Oxygen Electrode Virtual Lab (V-Lab), which demonstrates how energy is utilised in mitochondria.  To see demonstrations of these and other  Adaptive Tutorials developed on the Smart Sparrow Platform, click here.

The BEST Network offers academics the opportunity to develop state-of-the-art Medical education online that will be rolled out across 6 user groups, including University medicine students, year 12 High School students and rural students Australia wide. If you are interested in participating in the Project, please contact us.