{"id":1258,"date":"2025-12-10T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/thinglink-a-technological-review-of-a-case-based-virtual-learning-environment\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:14:08","slug":"thinglink-a-technological-review-of-a-case-based-virtual-learning-environment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/thinglink-a-technological-review-of-a-case-based-virtual-learning-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinglink: A technological review of a case-based virtual learning environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volume:<\/strong> 6<br \/>\n<strong>Issue: <\/strong>1<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> 2024<br \/>\n<strong>Author(s):<\/strong> James Wilkinson University of Hertfordshire<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<br \/>\n\u2018Thinglink\u2019 is a virtual learning platform, allowing users to upload photos and create realistic online worlds. \u2018Misfortune Avenue\u2019 is a virtual street, where paramedic students can meet patients from clinical practice as case studies in a safe, online environment. Academic staff can support the learning of theory content from a live teaching session, by mimicking real-world environments and designing management plans in simulation. Scenarios are designed to become more complex over three stages, with patient presentations constructively aligned against indicative content from each academic level of a paramedic science degree. The design uses scaffolding of the curriculum, allowing students to build an understanding of how an illness might progress through the longitudinal patient journey, created around various patient presentations commonly seen in paramedic practice. The scope of the platform allows interprofessional working between healthcare workers across the wider health service and encourages learning throughout the continuation of the patient journey.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Documents:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Thinglink_A_technological.docx\">Thinglink_A_technological.docx<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Thinglink_A_technological.pdf\">Thinglink_A_technological.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Year: 2024 Author(s): James Wilkinson University of Hertfordshire Abstract \u2018Thinglink\u2019 is a virtual learning platform, allowing users to upload photos and create realistic online worlds. \u2018Misfortune Avenue\u2019 is a virtual street, where paramedic students can meet patients from clinical practice as case studies in a safe, online environment. Academic staff can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.staffs.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}