Poster accepted at Emerging Technologies for Online Learning (San Jose, July 2010)
Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium, a joint Symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT with MoodleMoot, is designed to bring together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning.  The symposium, focusing on the technologies that drive online learning effectiveness, will continue to highlight research, applications, and best practices of important emerging technological tools. 

Entrada: facilitating a competency-based medical curriculum using an open source integrated teaching and learning system (L. Davidson, M. Simpson, L. Tomalty)
Virtually all medical schools utilize some form of learning management system to deliver schedules and curricular content to their students, but these systems are often in private instances that do not facilitate the collaborative, humanities or leadership aspects of medical education. Over the past five years, the Queen's University Medical Education Technology Unit (MEdTech) in collaboration with University of Calgary, Office of Undergraduate Medical Education has developed a novel and customizable integrated teaching and learning system called Entrada. In addition to curriculum and schedule management, Entrada incorporates social networking features that allow users to create and direct interactive communities for a wide range of activities, including over 200 such groups on interprofessional discussion, small group cases, student governance, and online learning modules across the two schools. Recently launched in the Schools of Rehabilitation Therapy and Nursing at Queens', Entrada can also be used to facilitate Interprofessional Education (IPE) by creating both communal and distinct virtual learning spaces for students enrolled in different programs. Newly released and upcoming features permit students and faculty to author and share quizzes, online cases, virtual patients, and aggregate library resources to support learning. Through these many features, Entrada supports faculty instruction, and students' negotiation, of the complex information spaces, particularly in humanities-based topics, not typicallysupported by traditional learning management systems. Additionally, through the collaborative nature of the project, Entrada has created a culture of leadership in conceptualizing and realizing eLearning projects among IT groups. With the open source release (May 2010), Entrada exemplifies leadership through sharing code with a world-wide audience for the improvement of medical education through strong technological resourcing and collaborative programming.