Midtown Wednesdays: Creating an Informatics Culture: Technology, Learning & Visualization

Submitted by Betsey Merkel on Sat, 02/25/2006 - 20:50.

Date: Wednesday, March 1

Time: 5:00 P.M. - 6:45 P.M.

Place: Myers University, Chester Campus

3921 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, OH

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Simple collaborations between short and long distance partners can create awesome unforeseen results.

Case Medical School and the Medical University of Ohio at Toledo partnered to share an eAssessment system over the Internet to create and administer online examinations. Their collaboration shows the power of the Internet and the potential for long-range interactions.

Learn how media and web based technology innovations have been applied to educating our future researchers and physicians.

We'll cover everything from the creation of a simulation center to teaching cancer genetics through serious gaming.

You'll also hear the story of three entrepreneurs - two medical students and one Cleveland Institute of Art alum - moving ahead with a new business spin-off.

Check out the Midtown Wednesdays Blog for updates in media technologies and learning.

Join us - and leave with new ideas and new connections.

Forum Contributors:

Dr. Tom Nosek, Case, Prof. Dept. Physiology and Biophysics

and Assoc. Dean for Academic Computing

Dr. Carlos Baptista, MD, Ph.D., Medical University of Ohio at Toledo's

Center for Creative Education

Gregg Wrenn, Case, Medical Student & Entrepreneur

Coming up: Wednesday, March 8: GreenCityBlueLake Network Portal

Time: 5:00 P.M. - 6:45 P.M.

Place: Myers University, Chester Campus

3921 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, OH

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Questions? Contact:

Betsey Merkel, Network Development

The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open)

Cleveland MidTown Innovation Center

4415 Euclid Ave., Suite 310

Cleveland, OH 44103 USA

Tel. 216-246-2447