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Abstract Category: Innovation & Technology |
Poster ID: IT4 |
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PUTTING THE LEARNING INTO E-LEARNING Professor Ronald M Harden*, OBE MD
FRCP (GLAS.) FRCS (ED.) FRCPC, IVIMEDS, E-learning is attracting increasing interest in higher education. Much attention and work has focused on the technology, however, with the educational strategies being relatively neglected. This has had a deleterious effect on the quality of the learning opportunities offered, on the response of students to it and on the sustainability of initiatives in the area. A study of instructional design in e-learning in medicine has been completed over the last two years in the International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS). This paper describes the results of the work and presents a new framework for conceptualising instructional design in healthcare professional education. It is represented as an ‘instructional design cube’ with on the three faces, the choice of learning architecture, the role and responsibilities of the teacher and the approach adopted to collaborative or peer-to-peer learning. The learning architecture choices include directive learning, problem-based learning, exploratory learning and needs-oriented or adaptive learning. Guidance from the teacher can be embedded in the e-learning programme, either as generic guidance or as support related to a specific topic or in a specific context. The teacher can also provide on-line support or facilitation or in a blended-learning context face-to-face support. Students can work individually with their comments embedded in the learning resources. They can work with other students opportunistically on-line or through organised group discussions or they can collaborate with other students in face-to-face group meetings. This 4 x 4 x 4 three-dimensional framework offers 64 possibilities but can be expanded to include additional learning architectures, roles for the teacher or participation and collaboration by the student. This approach has particular relevance to the instructional design of e-learning in medicine. Examples will be given of its use in practice.
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