Hello, and welcome to the first posting in this blog dedicated to highlighting, sharing and discussing issues related to educational technology, specifically to those affecting health care educators and learners in the university setting. This blog was developed as a better way for faculty and others to better integrate technology into educational settings in both ground-based and online courses.
This blog is the responsibility of the Educational Technology Committee in the Rueckert Hartman College of Health Professions, which is part of Regis University in Denver. The College contains schools of nursing, physical therapy and pharmacology, along with departments of health services administration and ethics. Therefore, even though the discussion on this blog should be applicable to a wide variety of teachers and learners, individuals within these disciplines will be the primary target audience.
Although there are several reasons for starting this blog, the primary factors are a growing interest in faculty and students to optimize the use of technology in the learning environment. Certainly, the explosion of Web 2.0 resources make this optimization possible, but it also presents its own challenges with increased options and the potential for learning curves for faculty and students. Another factor is the grow in the College means that it is increasingly difficulty for faculty to share best practices with others who may be interested in similar implementation.
Although the focus and implementation of this blog may change over time, here are is what readers of the blog an expect. New blog postings will be made approximately 1-2 times per week. Although I will take the responsibility for generating most of the initial postings, a number of faculty who have successfully implemented learning resources into ground and online environments will be sharing their insights on the blog. Finally, to make this blog an effective resource there needs to be dialog with the larger community of users. Therefore, it is hoped that many of you will find it helpful to join the discussion by posting replies to original postings, suggesting topics to be discussed on the blog and even becoming a contributing member.
So let's get started. Remember, like any blog you can subscribe to it so that it either arrives in your email box automatically or you can subscribe using one of several aggregators. More on that in the next blog.
Tim Noteboom,
Chair, RHCHP Educational Technology Committee
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3 comments:
This is an excellent idea Tim, you are to be commended for jump starting it. I would like to suggest for the next post you present a clear concisely stated problem and see what types of comments are received. Hopefully a dialog leading to solution will be the result.
Tim: Thanks for creating this space for us to share resources relevant to our teaching, learning and research.
One blog that I would like to share with the ET community is - Catalytic Conversations - moderated by Mark Milliron from UT Austin.
http://catalyticconversations.blogspot.com/
In the technology discussion we talked about linking technology to learning objectives. I have a learning objective for students to correctly classify patients into 3 categories based on information from a screening form and short interview. In the past I've used a paper case, but would like to use audio. I think a good format would be a podcast. What other methods could I use to accomplish this objective for both an online and hybrid class. What method is best and why?
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