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Iraj Poureslami, Dave MacLean, Tom Hall,Steve Corber, Arun Chockalingam, Barb Berry,
Simon Fraser University
Allan Davison
HealthSciences
Global Health eLearning:
Contributors:
Kelly Lee - LSHTM Vic Neufeld - Queens USrinath Reddy - India Duncan Saunders -U of A
Opportunities and Pitfalls
Global health distance learning• What is GH? • 21st Century instruction• Why eLearning?• Web resources –
what’s missing?• Opportunities & pitfalls
"International" vs "Global" Health
Why now? Globalization’s impactCauses of inequities – how to diminish them
Self-interest: SARS, HIV-AIDS, W Nile, Avian 'flu, Hanta
jobs
money
drugs
ideas
infectious agents
remedies
Development: global inequities > instability
Desire to be “good global corporate citizens"
Global exchange
To help the peoples of the world safeguard & improve their health
development
knowledgetransfer
capacitybuilding
education
health
Growing need for trained personnel
Millennium development goalsGrameen foundationMillennium village project
Needs are in the global south …
… instruction is mainly in north
Distance learning is the answer, and
courses are proliferating, but
quality rivalling classroom instruction is elusive
Distance learning – the futureSuccess → proliferation
• undergrad / graduate streams, conferences
• universality of subject matter
• geographical distribution of audiences
Opportunity: Agreement re contentGlobalization & policy (cost benefit analysis)
“Barefoot” emergency nurses & dispensaries
Team player
Evidence-based decision makingAdvocate persuasively
Can assemble resources – well connected
Mosquito nets & insecticidesSeedsSafe waterMosquito netsPharmaceuticals
Masters training goals … agents of change
Needs
Opportunity: Infrastructure Exists
1. Individual online course packages - fee-based
– some shared freely
2. Free but public domain resources
notably the Global Health SuperCourse3. Free quality-controlled compendia
4. For-profit "ePacks" by textbook publishers
linked to course management systems
notably the Global Health Education Consortium
credit or non-credit
5. Well funded educational consortia
unmoderated
Nutrition in Medicine NIH
3rd millennium teaching & learningMemorization vs …
just in time vs just in case
… case-studies
problem-based learning
1. Quality control
2. Foundations of health literacy for individuals
4. Teaching the teacherslinked to course management systems
5. Well funded educational consortia Nutrition in Medicine NIH
3. Collaborations that allow economies of scale
with very little prerequisite knowledge - Rob Stead
& prevent wasteful duplication, see BCcampus
Pitfalls: What’s missing
ResourcesOECD Report E-learning in Tertiary Education - WHERE DO WE STAND?http://education.qld.gov.au/information/service/libraries/docs/oecdfiles/elearn-tertiary.pdf
MERLOT: (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) This repository of over 220 peer-reviewed Learning objects "is a FREE and OPEN resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education." High quality interactive online learning materials. Here's their "Tasting Room" page. 07/10/01
Global health eLearning centre USAID http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/courses.cfm Perinatal care; Youth reproductive health: HIV, contraception (standard days method); Logistics for health commodities; M&E; Malaria; Tuberculosis
2nd Intl conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning, (IMCL2007). Al-Jubaiha, Amman, Jordan.
Global health educational consortium
Global health supercourse
Agreement regarding nuts & bolts
Policy (cost benefit analysis)
Globalization
Barefoot emergency nurses & dispensaries
Team player
Evidence-based decision making
Advocate persuasively
Can assemble resources – well connected
Mosquito netsSeedsSafe waterMosquito netspharmaceuticals
Millenium development goals village
The task
• Elucidate – as a health researcher• Educate – as an informed practitioner• Advocate – as a health activist • Agitate – as a concerned citizen
select future leaders in global health give them the best possible resources to safeguard the health of the world's populationto improve quality of lifeto reduce disparities.
Distance-courses are being implemented
what ‘s available?
what ‘s desirable?
quality design
Research
Practice
Capacity Building
Team-Building
Outcome: To help communities improve their health
eLearning Resources1. Individual online course packages - fee-based
– some shared freely
2. Free but public domain resources
notably the Global Health SuperCourse3. Free quality-controlled compendia
4. For-profit "ePacks" by textbook publishers
linked to course management systems
notably the Global Health Education Consortium
credit or non-credit
5. Well funded educational consortia
unmoderated
Nutrition in Medicine NIH
Pitfalls & opportunities
Benefits• worldwide
availability of instructional materials
• toolboxes for change-agents who seek to diminish health inequities
Hazards• waste of effort • inadequate design • product overlap • quality control
Reasons for optimism
Knowledge consumers
Knowledge transfer
Knowledge producers
“White men in suits – we never see them again”
“Studied to death – nothing changes”
Joe Kasonde“Information broker”
Implementation
Raising the barExamplars that set a standard – note:
Raises question then provides information
“Granularity” (modularization)
Case studies – learner as researcher
Learner centred instruction
Relevant to situations in which info will be used
Evidence-based practice
View some exemplars
• Nutrition in Medicine: Stephen S Zeisel
• Student intro to nutrition in pregnancy• Problem based learning strategies• Patient case 6 Nicole Part 4
Roadmap to a quality product
Quality controlCross-institute collaborationInvolvement of media expertsInstructional designersWeb designersField testingExternal review
Consortia among deliverers allows
cooperation across institutions
develop a distance education model
trains local workforces
multiple access points
scaleable to local needs
agreed quality control standards
Overview & take home message
• what is global health & why now? • why distance?• web resources - what is available?• what is missing?• The future - opportunities & pitfalls
Global health distance learning
Out-takes
Global health distance learning
• what is GH? • 21st Century instruction• Why eLearning?• Web resources –
what’s missing?• Opportunities & pitfalls
Barriers to collaboration
rebranding existing materials.
institutions need to cover costs and earn income
differences regarding content and emphasis
a degree of band-wagon jumping
differences regarding quality control
territorial issues
Benefits & opportunities
~agreed contemporary goals: appropriate
a degree of altruism regarding global health
desired characteristics of graduates
learning tools
benefits of inter-institutional resource-pooling
core skill-set
Potential Institutional collaborationsUNISA
University of Alberta
Simon Fraser University
to be completed
Developmenthealth
capacitybuilding
education
knowledgetransfer
Transitions in learning
• Teaching • Early life • Just in case
• Memorizing facts • In classroom • WWW as a photocopier
just-in-time
problem-based
learning
life long
home and worldwide
active participant
Just-in-time information
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ResourcesOECD Report E-learning in Tertiary Education - WHERE DO WE STAND?http://education.qld.gov.au/information/service/libraries/docs/oecdfiles/elearn-tertiary.pdf
MERLOT: (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) This repository of over 220 peer-reviewed Learning objects "is a FREE and OPEN resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education." High quality interactive online learning materials. Here's their "Tasting Room" page. 07/10/01
Global health eLearning centre USAID http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/courses.cfm Perinatal care; Youth reproductive health: HIV, contraception (standard days method); Logistics for health commodities; M&E; Malaria; Tuberculosis
2nd Intl conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning, (IMCL2007). Al-Jubaiha, Amman, Jordan.
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