Veterinary profession at the EU level is legally listed among the regulated professions which means that the education of European veterinarians must comply with minimal quality standards defined through the European System of Evaluation of Veterinary Training (ESEVT). Standards of veterinary education revolve around the list of so-called “Day–one Competences”, representing the body of knowledge and skills that the veterinary school must provide for all its students by the date of their graduation. Compliance to standards for each individual veterinary education establishment is certified through an elaborate accreditation procedure carried out by EAEVE re-currently, every 7 years. After the outbreak of COVID in March 2020 Switching to the online theoretical teaching has been almost seamless. However, hands-on experience, i.e. laboratory, microscopy, necropsy, indoor and outdoor clinical teaching etc. were seriously affected during occasional “lockout” periods since there weren’t any suitable means to compensate at least for some of the topics, with the ready to use online teaching material. Objectives of the project are: - to upgrade the system of delivery of digital teaching material for distance and classroom learning (e-learning platform); - to inspire/stimulate teachers to upgrade their abilities to produce higher quality digital teaching material; - to produce a substantial volume of digital teaching material. - to search for the existing, suitable, open access e-learning material on the Internet and integrate it into the teaching process at all partner faculties. Participants Applicant: 1) University of Belgrade (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine), Serbia Partners: 2) University of Zagreb (Veterinary Faculty), Croatia 3) University of Skopje (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine), Northern Macedonia Associated Partner: 4) European Association of Establishments in Veterinary Education (EAEVE), seated in Vienna, Austria Activities Joint production of high quality veterinary digital educational material, i.e. videos, micrographs collections, photo collections, animations and presentations, drawings, schemes, posters, datasets, handouts, brochures; internet sources retrieval; building of the e-learning platform. Digital film and photograph recording and processing of laboratory and clinical procedures, microscope specimen preparation and recording, digital drawing and animation, targeted Internet search, performed by the creative teams of teachers and technicians at all partner institution; platform and database programming, download and maintenance perform by the IT services. Impact 1) The enhancement of the institutions’ capacity for the production of HQ digital educational materials. 2) New e-learning platform at FVMUB, installed, organized and uploaded with existing and newly produced intellectual products. 3) Production, by all participants, of the high quality digital educational material in substantial quantity and diversity, offered as an open resource. 4) Diverse collection of high quality Open Source digital educational material collected from the Internet. Longer term benefits. Broadening of teacher’s didactic skills towards the digital era; improvement of partners’ distance learning capabilities; better acceptance of the teaching material by the “millennial” students generations; upgrade of knowledge of practicing (graduated) veterinarians, improvement of veterinary services.
1) To upgrade the system of delivery of digital teaching material for distance and classroom learning (website e-learning platform); 2) To motivate teachers to upgrade their abilities to produce higher quality digital teaching material; 3) To produce a substantial volume of digital teaching material that would provide students to learn theoretical data and to overcome skills related to laboratory and clinical work such as videos, digital photographs and micrographs collections, animated and static digital schemes, graphs, tables, presentations, digitalized handouts, etc.
The education of veterinarians complies with quality standards outlined in Directives 2005/36/EC and 2013/55/EU, and defined through the European System of Evaluation of Veterinary Training (ESEVT), certified through accreditation carried out by the European Association of Establishments in Veterinary Education (EAEVE), following Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). Standards revolve around the list of Day–one Competencies, the body of knowledge that a faculty must provide for its students by the graduation date. The balance between theoretical and practical teaching must be maintained. After the outbreak of COVID, faculties quickly responded switching to online teaching, using different platforms. Switching to online theoretical teaching has been almost seamless. However, hands-on experience, i.e. laboratory, microscopy, autopsy, indoor and outdoor clinical teaching, etc. was a big challenge during occasional “lockout” periods since there weren’t any suitable means to compensate at least for some of the topics. Idea was to improve ongoing online teaching materials with tools that would alleviate the performing of theoretical and practical lessons which in veterinary medicine, include mainly laboratory and clinical work.