For our Learning Design Blueprint, my part is about the legal and ethical aspects of Patient Data Privacy and Security. One of my planned learning activities requires learners to analyze a clinical case study to distinguish between public FOIPPA and private PIPEDA privacy statutes (Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, 2019). The activity also asks learners to identify active compliance hazards and define the legal boundaries of a patient’s circle of care. Cognitive overload and limited accessibility pose substantial barriers to student achievement in this activity. Our target audience consists of neurodivergent students, people who speak languages other than English, and people with diverse educational backgrounds. Presenting complex legal frameworks through standard text-based case studies might easily irritate and divert these students. When legal terminology dominates the conversation, the actual application of patient data protection is overlooked.

To overcome these obstacles, I want to modify this exercise by converting the static text into an interactive branching scenario using H5P. Reflecting on my experience creating immersive clinical training environments using Unreal Engine 5 and the Meta Quest Pro, I’ve had an idea of how spatial and visual simulations boost understanding. While we cannot create a complete virtual reality simulation for this web-based lesson, we may replicate the immersive learning method. Instead of reading a long narrative about a data sharing compliance issue, learners will navigate a visual storyboard. They will step into the shoes of an allied health professional and make compliance choices in real time. For example, if a learner chooses to share health data outside the established circle of care, the scenario will immediately pause to provide plain language, constructive feedback. This change immediately supports our objective of offering numerous learning formats that use visual aspects rather than depending simply on written information. By changing from a reading comprehension job to an interactive decision-making process, we assist students in navigating the gray regions of digital health data without becoming overwhelmed.

Guidance Documents – Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC. (2024). Oipc.bc.ca. https://www.oipc.bc.ca/resources/guidance-documents/

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. (2024, May 1). PIPEDA in brief. Priv.gc.ca; Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personal-information-protection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/pipeda_brief/

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