Methods and systems for virtual problem based learning

A system comprising:

• one or more processing devices;
• and
• one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:
• selecting information indicative of a medical profile of a patient;
• accessing information indicative of a team of students using the virtual PBL system;
• generating, based on the medical profile, an medical PBL schema comprising a medical problem to be solved by the team of students;
• generating a plurality of sections in the medical PBL schema, with each section promoting solving of the medical problem, and with each section associated with (i) a private work environment for a student to privately analyze the medical problem, and (ii) a shared, anonymous work environment for the students to view analysis performed by other students in solving the medical problem;
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• transmitting, to one or more client systems used by the students participating in the virtual problem-based learning system, the medical PBL schema.

One or more computer-readable media storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:

• selecting information indicative of a medical profile of a patient;
• accessing information indicative of a team of students using the virtual PBL system;
• generating, based on the medical profile, an medical PBL schema comprising a medical problem to be solved by the team of students;
• generating a plurality of sections in the medical PBL schema, with each section promoting solving of the medical problem, and with each section associated with (i) a private work environment for a student to privately analyze the medical problem, and (ii) a shared, anonymous work environment for the students to view analysis performed by other students in solving the medical problem;
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• transmitting, to one or more client systems used by the students participating in the virtual problem-based learning system, the medical PBL schema.

A method comprising:

• generating, by a virtual problem-based learning (PBL) system, a PBL problem to be solved by a group of students using the virtual PBL system;
• generating a set of sub-problems that promote solving of the PBL problem;
• generating, by the virtual PBL system, a medical PBL schema that promotes solving of the PBL problem, with the medical PBL schema comprising a plurality of sections, with one or more of the sections promoting solving of the sub-problems, and with one of the sections for solving of the PBL problem, with each section associated with (i) a private work environment for a particular student to privately analyze the medical problem, (ii) a shared, anonymous work environment for the students in the group to view analysis performed by other students in solving the medical problem, and (iii) solving information to promote solving of a problem for the section;
• transmitting, to one or more client systems used by the students participating in the virtual PBL system, the medical PBL schema;
• for a section,
• receiving, from a client device used by the particular student, annotation information indicative of one or more attributes of the solving information for the section;
• populating the private work environment of the particular student with the annotation information;
• populating the shared, anonymous work environment with an anonymized version of the annotated solving information;
• receiving, from client devices used by other of the students, information indicative of edits to the anonymized version of the annotated solving information of the particular student;
• presenting, to the client device used by the particular student submitting the annotation information, the information indicative of the edits;
• in response to presentation of the edits, receiving, from the client device used by the particular student information, indicative of a recommended action for the section;
• comparing the received recommended action to other recommended actions submitted by other students;
• determining a match among the recommended actions,
• in response to determination of the match, enabling the medical PBL schema to transition from the current section to a subsequent section in the medical PBL schema.