Will it be forward to suggest that most of us will support Spain on Sunday?
I just received an e-mail from a colleague of ours at Stellenbosch University, Dept Internal Medicine, Dr Steve Walsh, that I think is so valuable, I want to share it with the group.
In the e-mail he mentions a seminal e-learning article related to Medical education by Ruiz, Mintzer & Leipzig (Academic Medicine Vol 81:207-212, 2006) "The impact of e-learning in medical education" of which the last sentence (among others) of the abstract reads:
"The integration of e-learning into medical education can catalyze the shift toward applying adult learning theory, where educators will no longer serve mainly as the distributors of content, but will become more involved as facilitators of learning and assessors of competency."The article is very useful and contains aspects such as definitions, components of e-learning, the evidence for effective and efficient e-learning, availability of e-learning resources, evaluating e-learning processes and outcomes, e-learninig as academic scholarship, integrating e-learning into medical education, directions for the future and a summary.
Please read the article and comment on what you think about it. Remember if you want to comment, to click on the "comment" link below the post and then add your comment (easiest to comment with your Google account).
In the e-mail he also mentions four excellent websites for medical e-learning resources. Steve mentions that some of them require registration/ log in, but that all of them are free.
The sites are:
- http://www.healcentral.org/
- http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/segment/mededportal/information/
- http://healthsciences.merlot.org/
- http://medpics.ucsd.edu/
What do you think? Are they useful? Maybe create a link to this post on your own blog for your own future reference, as part of you using your blog as a personal learning environment?
Lastly ... With blogs you will have to find a way of getting the updated blogposts without necessarily having to go to the blogs themselves everyday. That is why one has to get a blog reader (like Google Reader or Microsoft Outlook 2007) where you can subscribe to a blog's RSS feed. There already is a post on this on this blog. Please refer to the blogposting called RSS in plain English and make sure you feed this central blog, as well as other students' blogpostings to your e-mail (Outlook 2007/ Thunderbird/ Gmail) or preferred blogreader (like Google reader).
This way we do not have to send out e-mails to make sure everybody gets the newest information.
Have a wonderful Worldcup Final, and weekend! And remember to decide on your projects by today, or the latest by Monday.
I must say, I particularly liked the one sentence in this article: "Faculty, administrators, and learners find
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targeting either learning delivery or
learning enhancement." There are other articles I found that say similar things, from both staff and student perspectives....I completely agree! We are not trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater here, just maybe adding a little bit more warm water and maybe even some bubble bath :)
Thanks for the links!
I found the article very helpful and help me to realize that the tendency of the world in education is to move toward the e learning strategy. We as educator most face the challenge updating our self in computer technology in order to develop digital materials such as tutorial multimedia, etc at the most appropriate level for the learner.
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