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Who are your classmates and where are they from? Add a picture to your profile and it will appear here. In the course you will have a chance to introduce yourself and to chat with your fellow participants.
This 4-days on-campus course continues where the online course ended. During an intensive program, you will dive head first into a myriad of advanced teaching cases based on real-world R&D projects. Working in small teams with fellow participants, you will work on various assignments that are based on these R&D projects on novel medical interventions. This on-campus Futurelab course takes place in the beautiful Castle Oud Poelgeest in Oegstgeest near the city of Leiden, which is only a 20-minute train ride from Amsterdam/Schiphol Airport. From the Leiden train station it is 10 minutes by taxi or bike to the Castle.
Preparatory assignment prior to the start of the on-campus course
Prior to the start of the on-campus course you will need to study the learning materials supplied to you on this online platform and make the seven preparatory assignments that you need to upload on this site before due date Thursday May 30th 13:00 CET. Depending on your background and expertise this should take approximately 20-30 hours. Note that the 4-days on-campus course itself is quite demanding. During the course there is hardly any time to thoroughly study the course material. Therefore, you are expected to be familiar with the materials and upload the preparatory assignments before due date.
Learning outcomes
Upon completing this on-campus course, you will be able to process large amounts of information obtained from both non-clinical and clinical studies, and you will be able to identify the key issues to be addressed during the development of various products. You will also have a broad understanding of the challenges and dynamics associated with the development of a novel medical intervention. Finally, you will have learned how to work closely within a small, multidisciplinary group setting.
As you have noticed this learning environment is pretty straightforward. Although we take great care to ensure the learning environment works on all browsers, Explorer may give suboptimal results (especially in video quality). Chrome, Safari or Firefox are recommended.
You can go back and forth in the course using the
buttons in the blue header of this learning environment. The next button is only active if all assignments of the topic are completed. The 
button in the header allows you to view the available course content at any time including reference to the topics you have already covered. At the bottom of each screen, you will find a 
button which enables you to ask for help -either with technical issues or course content related. You will be joined by other online course participants allowing you at specified times to interact and learn from each other. Use the 
button in the footer if you want to exit the learning environment.
During the course, you will at times be prompted to answer some self-assessment questions, perform and upload assignments and/or engage in online discussion by reflecting on your fellow learners assignment results. The scores of the self-assessments are not recorded. The self-assessments are included in this course for you conveniences to test if you comprehend the presented course content.
All videos in this course can be viewed with English subtitles. Press the CC button 
in the videoplayer to acces them. Some videos provide to option to naigate between chapters. Press this button 
to open the menu with all chapters. You will see each chapter marked as a dot on the videotimeline too.
Feel free to contact us by using the button in case you run into either technical problems or have course content related questions or issues.
This demo includes the course outline and several topics. Please have a look to see our learning platform and the way we like to teach online.
Activity
In the full course, you will see messages from your course instructor, uploaded assignments and comments from your fellow course participants.