A pedagogically-supported TEL solution for learning nontechnical minimally invasive surgical skills across Europe

Residents learning nontechnical skills in Europe face two problems: (1) the difficulty to fit learning time in their overloaded schedules; and (2) the lack of standard pedagogical models for all countries. Online video-based repositories such as WeBSurg or WebOP provide ubiquitous access to surgical contents. However, their pedagogical facets have not been fully exploited and they are often seen as quick-reference repositories rather than full e-learning alternatives. We present a new pedagogically-supported Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solution, MISTELA, designed by surgeons, pedagogical experts and engineers. MISTELA aims at building a common European pedagogical model supported by ICT technologies and elearning. The solution proposes a pedagogical model based on a framework for pedagogically-informed design of e-learning platforms. It is composed of (1) an authoring tool for editing and augmenting videos; (2) a media asset management system; and (3) a virtual learning environment. Support of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) and validation of the solution, will help to determine its full potential.

Tel Aviv 1932-1939 : de la experiencia en Occidente al experimento en Oriente

Tel-Aviv: años 30. La situación en Europa comienza a ser insostenible y muchos arquitectos judíos huyen a Palestina donde importan y adecuan los modelos modernos, aprendidos en el viejo continente, de hacer arquitectura. La ciudad, nacida en 1909 sobre las dunas a las afueras de Jaffa, crece vertiginosamente y se convierte en un laboratorio moderno sobre el tapiz urbano planeado por Patrick Geddes en 1925. En este trabajo, los múltiples factores arquitectónicos, sociales, culturales e históricos que llevaron a Tel Aviv a convertirse en la ciudad del mundo con más concentración de arquitectura moderna se entrelazan entre sí para perfi lar una imagen global a través de recorridos no lineales de lo acontecido en Tel Aviv durante los años 30. PALABRAS CLAVE: Tel Aviv, Movimiento Moderno Tel-Aviv. 30s The situation in Europe is becoming unsustainable and many Jewish architects fl ee to Palestine where they import the modernist way of thinking and doing architecture from the old continent. The city, born in 1909 on the dunes outside Jaffa, grows rapidly and becomes a modern laboratory over the urban tapestry planned by Patrick Geddes in 1925. In this paper, multiple architectural, social, cultural and historical factors that led Tel Aviv to become the city of the world with the highest concentration of modern architecture overlap over each other to shape a global image through non-linear paths of what happened in Tel Aviv during the 30’s.