A Unified Educational Platform of Multimedia Support in Education at Medical Faculties of MEFANET Project

The paper presents an educational network of medical faculties in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Its activities started within the project Medical faculties educational network in 2007 and the main role is to support modern multimedia information technologies usage in clinical and health care study programs. The network is based on open cooperation among faculties with respect to effective medical teaching and learning. To achieve this goal, an original and uniform platform for educational web portals was developed and it is used, together with central gateway, to offer and share digital educational content. The fundamental principles of this innovative solution are described. Both the authors and the users may utilize a wide range of sophisticated functionalities that make the processes of publication and accessibility more intuitive than ever. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of The Association of Science, Education and Technology