After several contacts through email and face to face meetings at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Meeting in San Francisco, we finally are getting started with this project.Today we will be presenting the Goal, Objectives and Rationale for this course. We expect you to give feedback on them. You may do this using the "Comments" area at the bottom of this post. Remember you can review the complete project using the option "Learn about this project" in our right menu.
Goal
To help face-to-face medical teachers enter into the web-based teaching setting to enhance their teaching possibilities.
Objectives
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Coordinate and/or participate in a cooperative, multi-teacher construction of a web-based course, using free or low cost communication software.
- Develop multimedia lectures and other web-based teaching and learning interventions, using low cost, user-friendly software.
- Apply in the construction of these courses, evidence-based principles for the use of multimedia in teaching and learning interventions.
- Apply evidence-based strategies for enhancing adult learning.
Rationale
This course was designed to help attaining the goals and objectives of the ICO's "Refocusing Ophthalmic Education Project".
We believe this course will help do this because it will address:
It is also an excellent opportunity for developing a collaborative project with other national and supranational ophthalmic organizations, interested in teaching.
Helping improve teaching skills of those who produce or will produce teaching and learning interventions in their organizations, is or will be a priority for all of these organizations.
Being an expert in a clinical or surgical topic does not translate into being a good teacher. To become a good teacher, a theoretical framework that supports the use of teaching strategies is needed. At the same time, practical advice on how to implement these strategies is also needed.
Entering the web-based teaching arena requires, besides the previously mentioned skills, a theoretical background, practical advice, and software tools that will help develop the specific multimedia interventions and communication processes that characterize e-learning.
Finally, we believe many national and international organizations would not feel comfortable working in a project that "belongs" to another organization. We believe these political barriers could be overcome if the project "belonged" to all organizations contributing significantly to the project.
Please fill in now your comments. If you don't see the space to comment, click on "Comments" at the bottom of this post.
Thank you!
This course was designed to help attaining the goals and objectives of the ICO's "Refocusing Ophthalmic Education Project".
We believe this course will help do this because it will address:
- Teaching strategies based on adult learning theories.
- Teaching to use user-friendly tools, to build web-based teaching interventions.
- Teaching evidence-based principles to build multimedia teaching and learning interventions.
It is also an excellent opportunity for developing a collaborative project with other national and supranational ophthalmic organizations, interested in teaching.
Helping improve teaching skills of those who produce or will produce teaching and learning interventions in their organizations, is or will be a priority for all of these organizations.
Being an expert in a clinical or surgical topic does not translate into being a good teacher. To become a good teacher, a theoretical framework that supports the use of teaching strategies is needed. At the same time, practical advice on how to implement these strategies is also needed.
Entering the web-based teaching arena requires, besides the previously mentioned skills, a theoretical background, practical advice, and software tools that will help develop the specific multimedia interventions and communication processes that characterize e-learning.
Finally, we believe many national and international organizations would not feel comfortable working in a project that "belongs" to another organization. We believe these political barriers could be overcome if the project "belonged" to all organizations contributing significantly to the project.
Please fill in now your comments. If you don't see the space to comment, click on "Comments" at the bottom of this post.
Thank you!
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This is an exciting project. Happy to participate.
ReplyDeleteLiving in a world with no boundaries we, our thoughts and beliefs, are but knots connected in our knowledge society.
ReplyDeleteIt is all about making sense knowing to use digital tools to communicate and share knowledge, to learn and teach.
For all this and much more I am very happy for being given the opportunity to participate in this fascinating project.
Helena Filipe
- Do you think it'd be better to say "To help medical teachers enter..." instead of "To help face-to-face medical teachers enter...". I'm not comfortable with how the "face-to-face" categorization sounds.
ReplyDelete- "Develop multimedia lectures and other...". I would add ", assessment tools and other...".
- I like Google Sites better for communication (than the blog); it's easier to see when people post comments.
Gaby Palis
Thank you Gabriela. Good ideas the "face to face" and the "assesment tools and others". Will add this.
ReplyDeleteThe reason we are not using Google sites (yet) Is because for discussion, people would have to login.
In this way it´s easier for people to comment.
When we start building the course we will be using other collaboration tools with the teachers.
I agree with Gaby regarding the switching out the term "face-to-face".
ReplyDeleteKarl