From Flipped to Gamified Classroom Learning!

IMU-LS-05: Games, Gamification and the Need for Engaging Learners (Karl Kapp)

A Sizzling Collection of Anatomy Games & Resources!

It is amazing how much knowledge, skills and attitudes a medical student must internalize (memorize, understand, apply and practice) before he or she can graduate, and making that learning journey a bit more engaging and exciting would surely not hurt. Personally, I would probably need brain shock therapy before even grasping the basics of Anatomy during the first semester. The language used for anatomy is way too complex for my impatient and simplifying brain to learn.

Interestingly, a pro-active IMU student (Ibnu Haniffa) shared an awesome Anatomy Arcade Games site on IMU E-Learning Facebook page recently (22/01/2011), and that just sparked me to an unexplored galaxy of great anatomy games and resources. In other words, unless you are using some of the sites coming next, why not spice up your Anatomy learning activities (or reading list) with some of the sizzling resources shared right here:

• WebAnatomy
  A collection of study aids and games from University of Minnesota for entry-level anatomy and physiology students. For example, the Anatomy Bowl multiplayer games could be used to spark the class to life learning different aspects of anatomy in a competitive, but exciting manner.
  
  
• Anatomy Arcade Games (Ben Crossett)
  This mission was born of frustration with what he saw as a lack of truly engaging material in the area of anatomy and also a frustration as a teacher catching students wasting class time playing flash games every time they were in a computer lab. The catch phrase "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" sums up the decision he made; to investigate the potential of these "pesky" little games to invigorate the delivery of anatomical material to the teenage audience (Source). Use some of these awesome anatomy games in your class (collaborative fun!), or at least share these games with your students where relevant.
  
  
• Visible Body (3D Human Anatomy)
  Visible Body is a content and software development firm that produces award-winning interactive and visual content. Visible Body's clients include many of the world's top pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and educational publishing companies. The revolutionary Visible Body web application is a 3D human anatomy visualization and learning tool available by subscription.
  
  
• BBC Interactive Body
  A sizzling free 3D animated anatomy resource that even includes interactive games to explore the senses, organs, skeleton, muscles and the nervous system.
  
  
• Get Body Smart
  Visually learn about the human body through beautifully detailed and interactive Flash animations.
  
  
• The Virtual Sports Injury Clinic
  Covers interactive information on over 100 sports injuries.
  
  
• TeachPE
  Check out the anatomical section especially on bones, muscles, the heart, lungs and energy systems.
  
  
• Human Embryology Animations
  It explores General Embryology, Cardiovascular Embryology, Development of the Head and Neck, Gastrointestinal Embryology, Development of the Limbs, and Urinary and Reproductive Embryology. Amazing stuff!
  
  
• Think Anatomy
  Is the creation of Vanessa Ruiz, art director, medical illustrator, blogger, and all out anatomy fanatic. This great site links, categorizes and discusses the best anatomy resources on the Internet.
  
  
• Street Anatomy
  Covers the use of human anatomy in medicine, art, and design (Vanessa Ruiz again!).
  
  
• To be Discovered!
  If you have any other excellent (free) anatomy online resources that you want to share, please share them in the comments section, and it will be added (if appropriate). Thanks :)
  
  

Ibnu Haniffa, thank you for being a pro-active students sharing your learning discoveries, and hopefully more students (lecturers and learners) will participate in sharing their learning discoveries on IMU E-Learning Facebook (or here!).

Finally, now we should not have any excuses in making our anatomy classes (or courses) boring, because with physical anatomy tools (at the medical museum), and sizzling online resources above, we have tremendous opportunities and possibilities to engage and inspire the medical students' mind, body and soul like never before :)

Top 10 Learning Sites for ________? Yours? #T10LS :)

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

- Albert Einstein

"See, here's the thing, though. I don't want 99 mind mapping resources, tools, and tips. I want one. That works. Really well. "
- Stephen Downes

CLUELESS?

To cut the crap short, and get to the point... It is amazing how many educators (that I have crossed path with) until today (Yes, already 2010!), who are clueless or know little about the amazing world of Open Educational Resources (OER)/Open Courseware (OCW) and learning tools. There are probably many reasons for that, so I am not going to go into that.

But, what I find even more shocking and troubling is educators who are also clueless about the amazing learning possibilities (tools and resources) within their own field/area/specialization/learning domain. I just hope you are not one of them.

No doubt we can't know and do everything, and there will always be new tools and resources blazing through in an ever growing global learning sharing stream. But, we should have some idea, or be open to explore new and innovative learning possibilities within our learning domain(s), because our students deserve it (or they will eventually desert us...).



WHAT TO DO?
So, how can we motivate or inspire educators to find and explore these new learning possibilities?

Peer pressure? Peer recommendation? Now, we are getting closer (I think!). Of course mambo jumbo lists are useful (e.g. OER), but for a busy educator it might be.... No time for that! Stephen Downes's quote above makes sense!

But, what if we filtered out the juiciest learning resources and tools, and stamped our validation for use (or recommendation). Now, that would be interesting, wouldn't it? Instead of 1000, 100, it is narrowed down to digestible portions (unless you are Takeru Kobayashi!).

To set a digestible portion criteria, we could use the magical number of seven, but I am going to suggest no more than 10 for whatever... Anyway, we don't have to be too rigid on such things, but just be reminded that Less is often more (especially for learning). Look who's talking :)

For example, I am looking for excellent resources or tools to explore critical thinking, where to start? I know Stephen Downes is facilitating a Critical Literacies Online Course, and has published a widely used 'Guide to the Logical Fallacies'. So, wouldn't it be great to have a juicy Top 10 (or anything less, or perhaps a bit more!) list of excellent critical thinking resources recommended by Stephen Downes as a starting point.

Of course, there are many more sites to explore, but having a great starting point validated or recommended by an expert won't harm anyone (would it?).

So, let's think bigger! What if more experts shared their filtered and recommended learning resource lists for their particular specializations or areas. Imagine great contextualized learning start points for Psychology, Medicine, Biology, Law, English, Creative thinking, critical thinking...(perhaps a bit more micro) you name it. Now, wouldn't that be useful?



MY TOP 10 LEARNING SITES FOR PERSONAL LEARNING
Here are 10 amazing learning resources to explore for personal learning, especially if you are into e-learning and learning (Not ranking, just numbering):

1. Einztein
   
   A wonderful starting point to find free online courses with a bit of spice from top Universities. Also, the Academic Porthole is a great starting point, as it also includes OER guides to several learning domains.
   
   
   
2. iTunes U
   
   Here you can find more than 250,000 free lectures, videos, films, and other resources from many of the top Universities around the world. Since I am using an IPhone (and IPod), it is such a wonderful resource to feed me with recorded lectures for my long traffic jams every working day.
   
   
   
3. YouTube EDU and Academic Earth
   YouTube has aggregated all of the videos from its college and university partners - including luminaries like Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth - in one place. Academic Earth is an educational video website with the goal of enhancing the usability and expanding the awareness of OER, focusing first on video lectures. Since most of its resources are aggregated from YouTube, I have mashed both into one. Also, you can even grade the lectures (A to F) on Academic Earth. Cool!
   
   
4. TED Talks
   
   Hundreds of inspiring talks by the some of the most innovative and amazing thinkers and doers the world has to offer. And 95.5% of these talks are 20 minutes or shorter, meaning they are perfect for mobile learning. How on earth can we ignore such a resource (after discovering it)?
   
   
   
5. OLDaily (Stephen Downes)
   
   If you are looking for the latest news, trends, reflections, etc. in the (online) learning world, Stephen Downes is the ultimate synthesizer (that I have come across) of what is going on. I love the way he reflects and extracts the essence (or what he finds interesting) of all the articles, sites, tools, resources, etc. he discovers in his daily online newsletter (excluding weekends!). You might also want to also check out his homepage to discover all the other stuff he is doing, including his other excellent reflective blog (Half an Hour) and video recordings of all his presentations. While talking about Stephen Downes, we cannot ignore George Siemens and his elearnspace. He is the mastermind (together with Stephen Downes) behind Connectivism, the only learning theory that makes sense in the online learning world. His reflections and ramblings will keep you updated with e-learning, knowledge management, networks, technology, community development, and corporate learning.
   
   
6. Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (Jane Hart)
   
   If you want to find or know more about learning tools and how to use them to facilitate online learning that sizzles, then this site will serve you amazingly well. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day is awesomely useful, and you won't be disappointed with her Tools Directory and Top Tools for Learning 2010. In addition, I love the fact that she provides us with a weekly round-up of the new learning tools added to the tools directory. Besides that you just have to check out her social media guides:
   
   

   • Introduction to social media for learning
     
   • Social Media for Workplace Learning
   • How to use Twitter for Social Learning
   • How to use Facebook for Social Learning
     
     

   These social media guides are simply a goldmine for anyone who is clueless, or wants to learn how to implement social learning in their teaching and learning environments. Also, don't miss her 100 Featured Learning Professionals, which will provide you with information, inspiration and/or interaction on a range of educational and workplace learning topics from around the world - via their blog, on Twitter or on other social networks. A life time worth of learning!
   
   
7. The Rapid eLearning Blog (Tom Kuhlmann)
   When you think about improving your rapid e-Learning, instructional design, PowerPoint or graphic creation skills, Tom Kuhlmann's Rapid eLearning blog provides you with a lot of great advice, tips, examples and short-cuts. Also, don't forget to get his free elearning ebook while you’re there. In short, this blog is easily my favorite 'Rapid e-Learning' learning blog! No doubt about that!
   
   
8. ELearningLearning (Tony Karrer)
   
   It is not really a list, but an amazing aggregator of excellent workplace or corporate learning blogs and posts filtered out by Tony Karrer. Just subscribe to this one, and you are basically subscribing to tons of great corporate or workplace learning blogs out there. Actually, it is a blog post repository in itself, and you will find the indexing, Monthly top featured posts, best from.., etc. very exciting (Well at least I did!). It uses the Browse My Stuff technology to create this topic hub. Topic Hubs are sites that aggregates content from a variety of sources, organizes that content around keywords in the topic domain, and supports both manual and social curation of that content.
   
   
9. Kapp Notes (Karl Kapp)
   
   If you want a blog that explores 3D learning, Second Life and learning games in general, this blog is certainly one of the best that I have come across.
   
   
   
10. iLearn technology (Kelly Tenkely)
    
    This blog is dedicated to giving teachers practical tips for integrating technology into the classroom. The learning stories are short, sweet and digestible. Perfect for the busy educator. Kelly you rock!
    

Besides these awesome learning sites, there are tons of other outstanding bloggers, sites, tutorials, learning games and tools to explore, but having a good starting, or knowing what sites that consume most of my online learning time should not be any harm.

YOUR TOP 10 LEARNING SITES FOR _________?

Alright, that was my top 10 learning sites for personal learning. What about you? Do you have any amazing sites to share from your learning domain? If you are interested to participate, simply share your Top 10 list through your blog, or using any learning tool convenient for you. Then, either blast me a comment with a URL to your list, or perhaps tweet the URL to the list using the following Twitter hashtag:

#T10LS

If many of you want to participate, I will setup a wiki (using Google Sites), whereby we all can collaborate to build. Actually, it would have been cool if someone like Jane Hart could use her magic to create something similar to the Top Tools for Learning 2010 for learning sites. Now, that would be awesome!

If no one is interested, too bad! At least you can enjoy my top 10 (personal) learning sites list above. Perhaps, whatever I have said, already exists. What do you think? :)

172 Interactive Health Tutorials and 32 EduGames!

How Does Your Brain Understand What Your Ear Hears?

Answer: Learn Genetics

Not sure if that was correct, but the two (2) links or resources above are certainly worth exploring. I just came across a very interesting blog post by Jeffery Goldman exploring e-Learning and Games in Healthcare, and from there I extracted some very interesting resources, and mashed them up with some other Medical online resources discovered earlier...



172 Interactive Health Tutorials

If you haven't seen this amazingly healthy resource repository yet, it is about time! Just CLICK HERE to access 172 interactive health education resources (might have increased since I counted!) from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorials, and access the text summaries. Not bad!

NOTE: These tutorials require a special Flash plug-in, version 8 or above. If you do not have Flash, you will be prompted to obtain a free download of the software before you start the tutorial.

To get a taste of what I mean, here are 10 relevant interactive health tutorials (from the 172) to get you going and excited:

1. Back Pain - How to Prevent (Need that one!)
2. H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)
3. Breast Cancer
4. Migraine Headache
5. Diabetes - Introduction
6. HIV and AIDS
7. Malaria
8. CT Scan (CAT Scan)
9. Managing Stress
10. Exercising for a Healthy Life

However, please keep in mind the terms of use if you are planning to share some of these tutorials with your students. In short, these tutorials can solely be used for our personal education... To be on the safe side, just link them to the repository page, and avoid deep linking, which the Patient Education Institute is terrified of.

Oops, I might have broken the law here, but if so, please correct me.

32 EDUGAMES

Now, what about free EduGames (Educational Games) related to Medicine and health (without needing to worry about deep linking)?

Here is a sizzling collection of free EduGames related to health, medicine and life (more EduGames!):

1. Deep Brain Stimulation
   Help Dr. Vanessa Mei cut, probe and drill her way to helping her patient cope with a movement disorder through brain surgery!
   
   
2. AIDtoCHILDREN
   The game will help to expand your vocabulary and help children in need while doing so. For every correct answer they will donate .25 cents to children in need.
   
   
3. Re-Mission
   Understand cancer better and develop a positive attitude toward defeating it.
   
   
4. WFP Foodforce
   Understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it.
   
   
5. The POD Game
   Dispense drugs and medical advice to people during an emergency. Using this game, you can enhance your efforts to teach staff and volunteers to work efficiently and sensitively with the public to maximize throughput in times of crisis.
   
   
6. Blood Typing
   In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion.
   
   
7. Virtual Hip Surgery - Total Hip Replacement Surgery
   Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a hip replacement surgery!
   
   
8. Virtual Knee Surgery - Total Knee Replacement
   Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a total knee replacement surgery.
   
   
9. The Ear Pages
   Sound is caused by changes of pressure in the air that is transformed into nerve impulses in the inner ear. Explore "The Ear Pages" and collect the snail shaped symbols to gain points in the quiz!
   
   
10. NANOSWARM
    The NANOSWARM’s story is set in the year 2030 — a time when there is no war, no crime and no hunger. The reader meets five teenagers interning at MECHS, the world’s leading research center. Each struggles with MECHS’ stringent diet and exercise requirements. Scientists there are on the verge of eradicating all disease when a mysterious infection becomes an epidemic. After one of the interns is stricken, the other teens pilot a miniaturized vessel inside his body to discover the source of outbreak.
    
    
11. Immune Attack
    An educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students. It aims to excite students about the subject, while also illuminating general principles and detailed concepts of immunology.
    
    
12. The Immune System Defender
    Ilya Mechnikov, inserted a thorn into a larva and noticed strange cells gathering around the thorn. The cells were eating any foreign substances entering the ruptured skin (devouring cells). Play the game to learn more!
    
    
13. Whack TB (Tuberculosis)
    There are almost 9 million new cases of TB each year; about 500,000 of these cases are resistant to the best TB drugs available to fight them. Play this game and learn more about fighting TB!” From the Families USA Global Health Initiative.
    
    
14. Escape from Diab
    Is a serious videogame adventure in healthy eating and exercise. It puts players inside a sci-fi action and adventure where healthy lifestyle choices are the keys to winning.
    
    
15. The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective
    There has been a mysterious outbreak of unhealthy habits among kids, and we need to solve these cases. All junior food detectives will get secret training on how to eat right and exercise. Have fun playing the game!
    
    
16. The Food Detectives Fight BAC!
    The game gives kids a fun way to learn about foodborne illness. From New Mexico State University.
    
    
17. Snacktown Smackdown
    In this game, the player takes on the identity of a Kid Wisdom "agent" in a race to save the town from the evil Mayor's plans. After gathering healthy snacks for ammo and traversing a treacherous playground, the player must battle three possessed vending machines.
    
    
18. Fatworld
    A video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S.
    
    
19. WaterBusters!
    A game to teach tips for water conservation around the home.
    
    
20. Energyville
    It’s up to you to provide enough power to meet the energy demands of your city’s 3.9 million people while keeping them prosperous, secure, and living in a clean environment. The implications of the energy decisions you make today for your city in 2015 are based on the current lifestyles and the projected energy demands and costs for developed countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
    
    
21. ElectroCity
    ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It teaches players about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
    
    
22. Ayiti - The Cost of Life
    What is it like to live in poverty? Find out now in this challenging role playing game in which you take responsibility for a family of five in rural Haiti. From UNICEF with Microsoft support.
    
    
23. Stop Disasters
    The online game aims at teaching people on how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Multiple languages. Good teacher resources.
    
    
24. Real Life Simulations
    That let you experience life as, for example, a peasant farmer in Bangladesh, a factory worker in Brazil, a policeman in Nigeria, a lawyer in the US, or a computer operator in Poland, among others.
    
    
25. 3rd World Farmer
    It aims at simulating the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries. In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm, and is soon confronted with the often difficult choices that poverty and conflict necessitate.
    
    
26. Climate Challenge
    A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.
    
    
27. Global Warming Interactive
    Is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions (intended for the high school user).
    
    
28. Quest Atlantis
    Help students understand social studies, environmental concerns, current events, and scientific standards.
    
    
29. Deliver The Net Game
    Race the sun and hand out as many insecticide-treated bed nets as you can to African families. The more nets you deliver – before the mosquitoes come out – the more lives you save.
    
    
30. Harpooned
    Harpooned is a free game for Windows. It is a Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica.
    
    
31. WolfQuest
    Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Play alone or with friends in on-line multiplayer missions, explore the wilderness, hunt elk, and encounter stranger wolves in your quest to find a mate.
    
    
32. FreeRice
    Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge (vocabulary, language, maths, geography, chemistry, etc). For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.

These e-learning resources (above) should keep us busy for a while, learning healthier ways of life, and hopefully the EduGames can offload some of the information overload :)

Any Free Medical Online Resources?

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession."
- Martin H. Fischer

Here is a juicy collection of free medical resources, games and courses that you might want to use for your personal learning, or embed in your course/training/program as supplementary, or core resources to enrich the students' learning experiences.

Let's start with...

• Medical Slides World
  SlideWorld is a web resource designed to facilitate educational process of medical professionals. It is a PowerPoint Search Engine that enables you to search more than 7 million presentations (.ppt) on medical related content. The site is open to anyone and is free of cost. Academic faculties and clinicians in practice from worldwide have contributed to the web portal.
  
  
• MedEdPORTAL
  Is a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources. All copyright and patient privacy issues are addressed during the submission process so users around the globe can download and utilize any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.
  
  
• MedWorm - Medicine RSS
  Search over 6000 authoritative Medical relates RSS feeds from one place.
  
  
• Medpedia
  Is a long term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public. The Project provides a free online technology platform to any individual or organization that can benefit from its use.
  
  
• JHSPH OCW
  The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseware (JHSPH OCW) project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses.
  
  JHSPH OCW Image Library enables you to search or browse to find and download hundreds of images from OCW courses. Most images are licensed for reuse, and their incorporation into your own educational materials is encouraged by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as part of our commitment to the open sharing of educational resources.
  
  In addition, you might want to check out Johns Hopkins Podcasts, too.
  
  
• Health Sciences Online (HSO)
  HSO is the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge. Search and browse any health sciences topic from over 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources. Materials are selected from accredited educational sources including universities, governments, and professional societies, by knowledgeable staff at HSO.
  
  
• Human Body and Mind - Interactive Body (BBC)
  An amazing interactive exploration of the human body and its functions.
  
  
• Visible Body - 3D Human Anatomy
  Is a free virtual human anatomy website with detailed models of all human body systems.
  
  
• Medical Videos
  Is an online library dedicated for videos and movies related to Medicine and Surgery to provide one easy place to find whatever a doctor,medical student,nurse or any individuals involved in medicine to find whatever he/she looks for.With a simple broadband connection you can enjoy the high quality medical videos either to learn new techniques or to be updated with the latest advances in medicine.
  
  
• Think Anatomy
  They have found links to the best anatomy resources on the Internet, categorized them, reviewed them, and put them in one place for you. Thank you :)
  
  
• Street Anatomy
  Street Anatomy is the creation of Vanessa Ruiz, art director, medical illustrator, blogger, and all out anatomy fanatic. It obsessively covers the use of human anatomy in medicine, art, and design. Street Anatomy began as a blog to educate people about the field of medical illustration and slowly evolved into an exploration of how anatomy is portrayed in everything from fine art to advertising.
  
  
• LearnersTV.com
  This is a comprehensive site providing Video lectures, LiveOnline Tests, Audio lectures etc in the fields of Biology, Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Computer Science,Engineering,Medicine, Management and Accounting etc FREE to its visitors... This site provides free video/audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world. Free live timed online tests with instant feedback and explanations will definitely help learners around the globe. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons License. Currently, they have 3100+ videos in their database.
  
  
• MerckSource
  Offers a wide variety of core health tools and resources, available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They have designed this website with your health and medical needs in mind. Best of all, it's free and it has absolutely no advertising. No distractions. Just credible health and medical information at your fingertips.
  
  
• Medical Animation Library
  Free medical animations as provided by the University of Pennsylvania Health System. This content is "bandwidth intensive." The latest versions of the following browser plug-ins must be installed: Shockwave and Quicktime.
  
  
• Molecular Movies
  This web resource presents an organized directory of cell and molecular animations, as well as a collection of original tutorials for life science professionals learning 3D visualization. The goal is to provide an efficient way for scientists and educators to browse and access existing animations for teaching and communication purposes.
  
  
• Human Embryology Animations
  It explores General Embryology, Cardiovascular Embryology, Development of the Head and Neck, Gastrointestinal Embryology, Development of the Limbs, and Urinary and Reproductive Embryology. Amazing stuff!

Blogs

• Digital Medicine and Technology in Medical Education (Dr. Neelesh Bhandari)
  Assessing the impact of Digital technologies on Health care.
  
  
• Wishful thinking in Medical Education
  A GP and Clinical Lecturer in Cardiff University (Wales, UK) interested in the use of new technologies to further medical education. This blog explores how to use the tools that are available, and how we can help students get the most out of learning, and become better doctors.
  
  
• Aestheticdoctor (Dr. Chin Shih Choon)
  Discusses lifestyle, beauty and the latest trends in medical aesthetics.
  
  
• Please suggest more :)
  

Educational Games

Here is a sizzling collection of free educational games related to health, medicine and life (more EduGames!):

• FreeRice
  Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge (vocabulary, language, maths, geography, chemistry, etc). For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.
  
  
• AIDtoCHILDREN
  The game will help to expand your vocabulary and help children in need while doing so. For every correct answer they will donate .25 cents to children in need.
  
  
• Re-Mission
  Understand cancer better and develop a positive attitude toward defeating it.
  
  
• WFP Foodforce
  Understand world hunger and efforts to alleviate it.
  
  
• The POD Game
  Dispense drugs and medical advice to people during an emergency. Using this game, you can enhance your efforts to teach staff and volunteers to work efficiently and sensitively with the public to maximize throughput in times of crisis.
  
  
• Blood Typing
  In this game you have to blood type each patient and give them a blood transfusion.
  
  
• Virtual Hip Surgery - Total Hip Replacement Surgery
  Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a hip replacement surgery!
  
  
• Virtual Knee Surgery - Total Knee Replacement
  Take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a total knee replacement surgery.
  
  
• The Ear Pages
  Sound is caused by changes of pressure in the air that is transformed into nerve impulses in the inner ear. Explore "The Ear Pages" and collect the snail shaped symbols to gain points in the quiz!
  
  
• Immune Attack
  An educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students. It aims to excite students about the subject, while also illuminating general principles and detailed concepts of immunology.
  
  
• The Immune System Defender
  Ilya Mechnikov, inserted a thorn into a larva and noticed strange cells gathering around the thorn. The cells were eating any foreign substances entering the ruptured skin (devouring cells). Play the game to learn more!
  
  
• Whack TB (Tuberculosis)
  There are almost 9 million new cases of TB each year; about 500,000 of these cases are resistant to the best TB drugs available to fight them. Play this game and learn more about fighting TB!” From the Families USA Global Health Initiative.
  
  
• The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective
  There has been a mysterious outbreak of unhealthy habits among kids, and we need to solve these cases. All junior food detectives will get secret training on how to eat right and exercise. Have fun playing the game!
  
  
• The Food Detectives Fight BAC!
  The game gives kids a fun way to learn about foodborne illness. From New Mexico State University.
  
  
• Fatworld
  A video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S.
  
  
• WaterBusters!
  A game to teach tips for water conservation around the home.
  
  
• Energyville
  It’s up to you to provide enough power to meet the energy demands of your city’s 3.9 million people while keeping them prosperous, secure, and living in a clean environment. The implications of the energy decisions you make today for your city in 2015 are based on the current lifestyles and the projected energy demands and costs for developed countries throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
  
  
• ElectroCity
  ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It teaches players about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
  
  
• Ayiti - The Cost of Life
  What is it like to live in poverty? Find out now in this challenging role playing game in which you take responsibility for a family of five in rural Haiti. From UNICEF with Microsoft support.
  
  
• Stop Disasters
  The online game aims at teaching people on how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Multiple languages. Good teacher resources.
  
  
• Real Life Simulations
  That let you experience life as, for example, a peasant farmer in Bangladesh, a factory worker in Brazil, a policeman in Nigeria, a lawyer in the US, or a computer operator in Poland, among others.
  
  
• 3rd World Farmer
  It aims at simulating the real-world mechanisms that cause and sustain poverty in 3rd World countries. In the game, the player gets to manage an African farm, and is soon confronted with the often difficult choices that poverty and conflict necessitate.
  
  
• Climate Challenge
  A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.
  
  
• Global Warming Interactive
  Is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions (intended for the high school user).
  
  
• Quest Atlantis
  Help students understand social studies, environmental concerns, current events, and scientific standards.
  
  
• Deliver The Net Game
  Race the sun and hand out as many insecticide-treated bed nets as you can to African families. The more nets you deliver – before the mosquitoes come out – the more lives you save.
  
  
• Harpooned
  Harpooned is a free game for Windows. It is a Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica.
  
  
• WolfQuest
  Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Play alone or with friends in on-line multiplayer missions, explore the wilderness, hunt elk, and encounter stranger wolves in your quest to find a mate.
  
  

Open Courseware (OCW)

Here is a collection of interesting Health and Medical OpenCourseware you might want to explore further (Check JHSPH OCW for more!):

1. Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Public Health (Johns Hopkins)
   This training examines the path of the avian influenza and examines how it could impact world health.
   
   
2. Population Health (Tufts University)
   This course explores the relationships between population health and public health, animal health and human health, and clinical and population-based health practice.
   
   
3. Human Growth and Development (Tufts University)
   This course explores the various developmental "tracks" longitudinally from birth to death, and the individual at various cross-sectional stages/ages of life.
   
   
4. Managed Care and Health Insurance (Johns Hopkins)
   This course explores the major issues related to the design, function, management, regulation, and evaluation of health insurance and managed care plans.
   
   
5. Population Change and Public Health (Johns Hopkins)
   This course introduces the basic elements of population studies, including: population size, composition, and distribution, and the causes and consequences of changes in these characteristics.
   
   
6. Public Health Biology (Johns Hopkins)
   This course explores population biology and ecological principles underlying public health and reviews molecular biology in relation to public health biology.
   
   
7. Addiction and Neural Ageing (The Open University - UK)
   This course examines some of the biological and psychological issues underlying addictive behaviours and the ageing of the nervous system.
   
   
8. Nutrition and Medicine (Tufts University)
   This course teaches basic nutrition principles that are relevant to other medical courses such as pathology, growth and development, and pharmacology.
   
   
9. Microbiology (Tufts University)
   This course explores the principles of infectious agents, including the basic tactics used by microbial pathogens to establish infectious diseases.
   
   
10. Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (Johns Hopkins)
    This course explores the basic methods for infectious disease epidemiology and case studies of important disease syndromes and entities.
    
    
11. Implant Dentistry (Tufts University)
    This course is explores the fundamentals of Implant Dentistry, including the basic concepts and foundation of diagnosis, treatment planning and sequence of treatment with the patients, practice coordinators and prosthodontic faculty members.
    
    
12. Principles of Drug Development (Johns Hopkins)
    This course explores the underlying preclinical and clinical development of new therapeutic drugs and procedures. It describes and evaluates specific examples, and discusses legal and ethical regulations that apply to drug development.
    
    
13. Oral Public Health and Community Service (Tufts University)
    This course examines the impact of society, disparate cultures, attitudes, health beliefs and risk behaviors on oral public health.
    
    
14. Challenging Ideas in Mental Health (The Open University - UK)
    This course takes you on a journey of discovery where you are invited to challenge ideas, both new and old, in relation to mental health.
    
    
15. Geriatric Dentistry (Tufts University)
    This course considers dental needs of the rapidly changing and ethnically diverse geriatric population. It covers a wide range of lecture topics, from Nutrition and Aging to Oral Cancer and Other Pathologic Lesions of the Geriatric Patient.
    
    
16. Preclinical Complete Denture Prosthodontics (Tufts University)
    This is the introductory course to the treatment of the edentulous patient and continues as the student progresses to the Advanced Clinical Complete Denture Lecture Series and the clinical treatment of patients.
    
    
17. Introduction to Mental Health and Disaster Preparedness (Johns Hopkins)
    This presentation introduces the topics of disaster mental health services, mental health surge capacity, and psychiatric first aid.
    
    
18. Improving Understanding and Collaboration among First Responders (Johns Hopkins)
    This unique training addresses the institutional culture of five responder groups: law enforcement, EMS, fire, public health, and private security in an attempt at fostering understanding among these groups.
    
    
19. Biological Agents of Water and Foodborne Bioterrorism (Johns Hopkins)
    This presentation examines the various biological agents that terrorists could use against food or water supplies.
    
    
20. Agricultural Science and Policy I (Tufts University)
    This course highlights the relevance of natural resource conservation for ensuring healthy agricultural, food and environmental systems, as well as the various approaches for implementing it.
    
    
21. Introduction to Human Nutrition (UC Berkeley)
    This course provides an overview of digestion and metabolism of nutrients.
    
    
22. Introduction to Neuroscience (MIT)
    The course will span modern neuroscience from molecular neurobiology to perception and cognition.
    
    
23. Health Issues for Aging Populations (Johns Hopkins)
    Introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons.
    
    
24. Neurology, Neuropsychology, and Neurobiology of Aging (MIT)
    Lectures and discussions in this course cover the clinical, behavioral, and molecular aspects of the brain aging processes in humans.

FIRST AID

This 'First Aid' resource section is 100% inspired and replicated from Michelle Fabio's excellent post on 'Mission to Learn'. Here is a list of 10 recommended free first aid online resources:

1. American Heart Association e-Learning
   Lots of information on heart emergencies with basic First Aid, CPR, and AED courses (for a small fee) that can be completed anytime, anywhere; also has a Pocket First Aid & CPR iPhone application.
   
   
2. American Veterinary Medical Association Pet First Aid
   Printable information on how to deal with small and large pet emergencies from poisoning and seizures to broken bones and heatstroke.
   
   
3. CPR Dude
   Run by an American Red Cross CPR, AED, and First Aid instructor, this site offers lots of information presented in a fun, interactive way.
   
   
4. FirstAid4All
   Comprehensive resource with information on dealing with emergencies like choking, absence of heartbeat or breathing, poisoning, sunstroke, and electric shock as well as with accidents like burns, cuts, fractures, dislocations, bruises, bleeding, and foreign objects in the eyes or ears; also provides a checklist so you can create your own first aid kit to keep handy.
   
   
5. First Aid Web
   Offers free self-guiding CPR and First Aid courses with regular quizzes to chart your progress; note in order to receive certification, there is a fee.
   
   
6. Health World Online
   Instructions for dealing with many different kinds of accidents and emergency situations including animal and insect bites, fainting, frostbite, hyperventilation, seizures, splinters, and more.
   
   
7. Kids Health
   Great for parents, the First Aid & Safety section covers how to prevent and respond to emergencies at home, outdoors, and also away from home.
   
   
8. Mayo Clinic
   Lots of information on how to deal with accidents and emergencies, including corneal scratches, chemical splashes, head trauma, snake and tick bites, and nosebleeds; also tips on making your own first aid kit.
   
   
9. University of Washington School of Medicine
   Includes instruction on first aid for choking, standard CPR, hands-only CPR, CPR for children and infants, and CPR for pets; also printable instructions, videos, fun facts, and even iPhone and Android applications.
   
   
10. Waveland Fire Department
    Offers guidance on CPR procedures and the Heimlich Maneuver for choking victims, including helpful diagrams and illustrations.