Near the finish line.

Since our last post, the work presented by the content authors have been processed by Instructional Designers and the course is being assembled on a Moodle learning managment system.

We expect to have the Course finished by October 2011. 

Instructional Design and Financial Support:

At this time we have started reviewing the content sent by authors and looking for extra financial support for enhancing the content, through professional instructional design processing.

Step 6: Sending the first drafts

Until today we have received drafts from:

• Karl Golnik 
• Gabriela Palis
• Vikas Mahatme
• Helena Felipe
• Eduardo Mayorga

We expect to receive the rest soon. Once we have gone through some editing we will publish the lectures for comments by the rest of the team. 

Step 5: Starting to prepare the lectures

These are the instructions all those in the category of “Teachers” are receiving. If you are not sure of your status you may check it here


If you are not a “Teacher” this is just to keep you informed on how this project is moving on. You do not have to follow these instructions.


If you are a Teacher, please follow these instructions.


Instructions for Teachers


1)     Go to the following form and enter your name and email for your Google account.

Access the form

You need a Google account because we will be using several collaboration tools from Google.
If you do not have a Google account you may open one using your actual email address clicking here


2)     Take a look at the topics that have been assigned to you clicking here
Please make sure you are ok with the topic assigned. If not let me know at mayorgaedu@gmail.com


3)     Make sure you have or get the minimum readings you need for the preparation of you topic.
You can find the recommend readings for each module clicking here

If you don’t have them you can order them at www.amazon.com or www.pfeiffer.com

Please write to me if you need any assistance.


4)     Accept an invitation you will receive from me to join Wrike. Wrike is a software designed for tracking projects and their tasks. We will be using it to follow this project. It will allow you to receive reminders on the deadlines for this project.


5)      Start working on the outline of your topic. Next week you will get detailed explanations as how to share your work with the team. Remember, before starting to go over the goal and objectives of the Module your topics belong to. You can find them clicking here

Step 4: Assign topics to teachers

Step 4: Assigning topics to teachers:
Having discussed the topics, we know must start assigning topics to the teachers.
If you are in the "Teacher" category (check here to verify your status) you will be receiving a survey asking you what topics would you be interested in preparing for the course. If you want to change your status, either becoming a "Teacher" or stop being a "Teacher", please write to me at eduardo.mayorga@icoph.org
Curious about the survey: Click here to take a look

PD: This is an addition to the original post. As to today, January 16th, we have received 13 out of 23 replies to our survey. We resent the survey and will wait one more week. After that we move on.

Step 3: Defining Outline and Major points.


Last week we presented the Modules of the course. Today we are presenting the Outline and Major points of each Module.

Please comment, make suggestions or ask questions on the Outline and Major Points. You can still do the same on the goals, objectives and readings we present for each module, just click on the step you want to read and comment on the right side menu.

We have highlighted the Outline and Major points in blue so you can focus on them, but kept the Goals and Objectives so you can keep and eye on them when evaluating the Outline.

Please fill in your comments in the "Comment area". If you don't see the space to comment, click on "Comments" at the bottom of this post. 

1.1 Theory and application of adult learning principles

1.1.1 Goal

To prepare medical teachers to be able to apply adult learning principles for developing more  effective teaching and learning experiences.

1.1.2 Objectives

Participants will be able to:

·          Describe and apply some principles that guide adult learning.

·          Describe and apply principles of teaching that will help adult learners learn.

1.1.3 Outline and major points

·          Knowles principles of adult learning, a comparison with pedagogy

·          The need to know

·          The learner's self concept

·          The role of experience

·          Readiness to learn

·          Orientation to learning

·          Motivation

·          Practical examples applied to:

·          Medical students

·          Residents

·          Continuing Medical Eduacation    
    

1.2 Planning a Course

1.2.1 Goal

To help medical teachers develop a stepwise process to develop a course. The same process will  be of use either for face to face or a web based courses.

1.2.2 Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

·          Write goals and objectives that will help develop effective learning interventions.

·          Organize the content in building blocks, with their own particular objectives to facilitate  construction of the course.

·          Use the concept of "chunking" for organizing the content in effective learning objects.

·          Plan and develop evaluations as a starting and ending point in the development of learning  interventions.

1.2.3 Outline and major points

·          The Addie Model of Instructional Design

·          Analyze

·          Design

·          Develop

·          Implement

·          Evaluate

·          Blooms Taxonomy

·          Cognitive

·          Affective

·          Phsychomotor

·          Writing goals and objectives according to Blooms Taxonomy

·          Content Organization

·          Modules

·          Competencies

·          Major Points

·          The concept of chunking

1.3 Building Course Content

1.3.1 Goal

To help medical teachers identify adequate teaching  strategies for teaching knowledge (facts and concepts),  skills (procedures),  values and attitudes (principles).

1.3.2 Objectives

By the end of the course learners will be able to choose  and apply the best strategies and media for teaching:

·          Facts

·          Concepts

·          Procedures

·          Processes

·          Principles

1.3.3 Outline and major points

·          Facts

1.        Definition

2.        Types of facts

3.        Writing objectives

4.        Training facts

5.        Evaluating facts

·          Concepts

1.        Definition

2.        Training concepts

3.        Teaching concepts

4.        Practice methods

·          Procedures

1.        Definition

2.        Writing objectives

3.        Teaching procedures

4.        Practice methods

5.        Evaluating procedures

·          Processes

1.        Definition

2.        Types of processes

3.        Writing objectives

4.        Teaching processes

5.        Evaluating processes

·          Principles

1.        Definition

2.        Guidelines

3.        Writing objectives

1.4 Principles for building multimedia teaching activities

1.4.1 Goal

Prepare medical teachers to be able to apply principles for building multimedia teaching activities.

1.4.2 Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

·          Describe and apply the following principles to their teaching interventions. 

·          Multimedia principle

·          Contiguity principle

·          Modality principle

·          Redundancy principle

·          Coherence principle

·          Personalization principal

·          Evaluate teaching interventions prepared by others, and identify improvement opportunities  applying the same principles.

1.4.3 Outline and major points

·          How the brain works

1.        Short and long tem memory

·          Multimedia principle

1.        Using Visuals and Audio narration

·          Contiguity principle

·          Using diagrams

·          Placing words and graphics near each other

·          Modality principle

·          Using audio narration

·          Redundancy principle

·          Text and audio can hurt learning

·          Eliminate extraneous visuals, text and audio

·          Coherence principle

·          Adding interesting material can hurt learning

1.5 Tools for building audiovisual interactive teaching activities

1.5.1 Goal

To train medical teachers in the use of tools for developing audiovisual interactive teaching activities

1.5.2 Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

·          Output a PowerPoint presentation to a web compatible format using "Articulate"  with the need  of no programming knowledge.

·          Prepare web delivery quizzes using "Quizmaker".

1.5.3 Outline and major points

·          Introduction to Articulate Studio

·          Downloading and installing Articulate Studio

·          Presenter

·          Workflow

·          PowerPoint Slides

·          Write narration

·          Add media

·          Customize the player

·          Quizmaker

·          Selecting a quiz type

·          Selecting a question

·          Building a question

·          Customizing the quiz

·          Publishing

1.6 Collaboration tools for planning a multi-teacher course

1.6.1 Goal

To train medical teachers in the use of free, web based, collaboration tools.

1.6.2 Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to

·          Build a collaborative web based area using:

·          Google Docs

·          Google Groups

·          Google Sites

·          Edit files in a collaborative way.

·          Use a discussion area to interchange ideas.

1.6.3 Outline and major points

·          Google Docs

1.        Documents

2.        Presentation

3.        Spreadsheets

·          Google Groups

1.        Starting a group

2.        Discussions

3.        Adding pages

·          Google Sites

1.        Starting a site

2.        Adding pages

3.        Customizing the menu

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Thank you! 


PD: This is our third post. You may find the rest on the right side menu under "Archive"