Rapid prototyping for a virtual medical campus interface

Abstract

The Virtual Medical Campus Graz uses e-learning to make the human medicine curriculum digitally accessible to a target population of 4500 students and teachers. This project occurred parallel to the development of a new curriculum and thus involved all medical teachers and students. The VMC system architecture includes a multimedia repository for reusable learning objects; middleware containing the VMC logic that arranges learning objects into lectures, themes, and modules; and user interface. To ensure the interface suited the target population, we used the user-centered design method.