Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Role of Technology in Education

This 'blog module' is created as a teaching aid to help learners on,

Role of Technology in Education

by
Dr. R. B. Marasinghe (MBBS, MPhil, PhD)




Objectives

At the end of this, participants should be able to, 

  • Comprehend the term/s ‘technology’ & ‘education’
  • Discuss relevant educational principles appropriate for different technologies
  • Identify technologies commonly used in education
  • Identify current  trends and future developments
  • Discuss issues related to the use of technologies in education

Enrolment

  1. log into blog- http://tech-for-education.blogspot.com
  2. Follow the instructions of the trainer

Content

  1. Define terms; ‘technology’, 'learning' & ‘education’ 
  2. Educational Principles/Theories
  3. Evolution of Education
  4. Evolution of Technology
  5. Education Specific Software
  6. Other useful software
  7. Issues/trends related with the use of technology in education 

Activities - you may involve in one or more of following activities


  1. Discuss what do you mean by (relevant query)
  2. Watch an video
  3. Follow the presentation
  4. Search the Internet to find out Definitions/Explanations
  5. Contribute to the discussions
  6. Post in your blog

Subtopics

  1. Define terms; ‘technology’, 'learning' & education’  (http://tech-for-education.blogspot.com/2017/05/technology-learning-education.html)
  2. Educational Principles/Theories (http://tech-for-education.blogspot.com/2017/05/educational-principlestheories.html)
  3. Evolution of Education (http://tech-for-education.blogspot.com/2017/05/evolution-of-education.html)
  4. Evolution of Technology (http://tech-for-education.blogspot.com/2017/05/evolution-of-technology.html)
  5. Education Specific and other useful Software (http://tech-for-education.blogspot.com/2017/05/education-specific-and-other-useful.html)
  6. Issues/problemsrelated with the use of technology in education (http://tech-for-education.blogspot.com/2017/05/issuesproblems-related-with-use-of.html)

39 comments:

  1. I want to learn how to teach the doctors on how to write CoD correctly

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    1. Can you specify a bit, what really you want to teach and what really they wanted to learn?

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    2. 1- Doctors should follow certain principles in writing the cause of death information
      2- Doctors should write legibly

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  2. 1. All basic concepts in medical education
    2. Principles in student supervision
    3. Engage students through electronic means: Expectation evaluation, barriers/ methods, Assessing student engagement
    4. Assessing students online
    5. Instructional designing principles
    6. Using virtual reality in community settings to improve health engagement of general public

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    1. Ok. Many areas, will see if I can cover them today,
      But will identify a priority area. Tnx

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  3. I would like to use technology for developing a platform for Continuing Medical Education (CME) for doctors in Sri Lanka

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  4. As my research is based development of a meaningful use criterion for a health informatics intervention....

    I want to learn on;

    Qualitative resaerch
    Costing methods
    Report writing skills
    Presentation skills

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    1. Ok, is there anything you wanted to 'teach' 'someone'!

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    2. Sir, Its basically identifying the requirements of the stakeholders to assess the cost effectiveness.

      Then have to convince / 'teach' how important to have stick to the developed meaningful use criterion to make the intervention useful

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  5. Preparing content for teaching, instruction design
    Teaching skills, presentation skills
    Using online content for self-learning
    Methods and levels of assessing learning of users
    Techniques for conducting TOT

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  7. I want to learn teaching skills for digital health innovation for hospital staff

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  8. I wont to learn how to guide doctors to use an electronic algorithmic decision making system

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    1. Usage of Electronic algorithmic decision making system for disease diagnosis by 50 % of doctors by 2020.

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  9. I want to learn
    1. How to do in-depth interviews
    2. About metadata schema
    3. About Data architecture

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  10. 1. Learn EA concepts and applicability in healthcare setting
    2. Learn about current EA adoption models
    3. Learn about qualitative research
    4. Learn interview techniques
    5. Learn qualitative data analysis
    6. Learn about ethnographic research

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  11. 1. Existing MCH data flow from service delivery level to aggregate level
    2. Customization of DHIS2 tracker module
    3. Android app development for DHIS2
    4. Planning and conducting of User training for PHMs
    5. How to evaluate a system capturing individual health related data at field level.
    6. Developing an eLearning system with asssessment

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    1. Learning Objective: To be able to customize tracker modele of DHIS2 to capture individual MCH data

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  12. Now post your Learning objectives, it should include Act, Content, Condition and the Criteria
    Tnx

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  13. At the end of the training the learner should be able to list 10 key aspects of EA adaption methodologies in the current context with 100% accuracy

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  15. minor staff shall be able to enter the basic demographic data into the hospital PMS.

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  16. At the end of the training session, the participated doctors should be able to use the online learning platform, satisfactorily to continue CPD, when doctors use the computer on their own.

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  17. Learning Objective: To be able to customize tracker modele of DHIS2 to capture individual MCH data

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  18. At the end of the session the student should be able to draw basic statistical diagrams using SPSS package for the given dataset

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  20. Objective:

    At the end of the session, you should be able to
    1. Define pros and cons of the new system
    2. Assess the usability of the system to your institution.

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  21. At the end of the learning session, the learner should be able to conduct in-depth interviews with selected research participants with minimal leading questions

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  22. At the end of the learning session the learner should be able to appreciate importance of adherence to best available meaningful use criterion when implementing new health IT technology in the Ministry of Health.

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  23. At the end of the session the learner should be able to enter a patient record completely for all registered patients within 2 weeks of ending the registered quarter to the system

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  24. At end of the programme, 50& of participants should be able to usage Electronic algorithmic decision making system for disease diagnosis

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  25. At the end of the session student should be able to define key components of a doctor-patient interaction in a high volume clinical setting

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