Collaborative Multi-professional Narrative Based e-learning. An application to teaching Medical Statistics

Abstract : The present paper describes e-CNA (e-Collaborative Narrative Analysis), a web based multi-agent environment where different agents contribute to the exploration and social co-construction of the meanings of a set of narratives. The paper also describes an action-research e-learning experiment aimed to involve the students of different courses and a multi-disciplinary team of health professionals in a blended online educational project on qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in health sciences. A taxonomy of illness-related concepts/terms was generated, and the narratives were represented as semantic networks.