Developing game-like simulations to formalize tacit procedural knowledge: the ONT experience

The exceptional success achieved by the Spanish National Transplant Organization (ONT) in recent years has made other countries highly interested in following this organization’s methodologies. A good training program is one of the key elements of the ONT. Until 2012, the ONT training program was a...

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Autores: Borro Escribano, Blanca Beatriz, Blanco Aguado, Ángel del, Torrente Vigil, Francisco Javier, Martínez Alpuente, Itziar, Fernández Manjón, Baltasar
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/35097
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35097
Access Level:Acceso aberto
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Screen-based simulation
Educational games
Tacit knowledge
Medical procedures
Case-based teaching
Inteligencia artificial (Informática)
Cirugía
Métodos de enseñanza
1203.04 Inteligencia Artificial
3213 Cirugía
6104.02 Métodos Educativos
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Resumo:The exceptional success achieved by the Spanish National Transplant Organization (ONT) in recent years has made other countries highly interested in following this organization’s methodologies. A good training program is one of the key elements of the ONT. Until 2012, the ONT training program was a paper-based case teaching method, and the small number of ONT experts limited the audience. In an attempt to improve and increase the attendees in this program, a game-like simulation was developed to represent transplant management procedural knowledge. To maximize the educational value, this game-like simulation was based on representative teaching cases to help students practice with different real situations and different levels of complexity in a risk-free environment. This study presents how an iterative game development methodology has been applied to evolve from a paper-based case teaching method to a game-like simulation, with a special focus on the efforts made to include the ONT experts’ tacit procedural knowledge in the simulation. Apart from increasing the number of students who can access the ONT training, this game-like simulation also helped to achieve a more detailed formalization of transplant management as well as a more comprehensive systematization of a set of relevant teaching cases.