Health Care Education 2.0 - Transforming your teaching for the digital age 2018
In-Person Event
Oct 14 - 20, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts, USAOVERVIEW
Health Care Education 2.0 - Transforming your teaching for the digital age is organized by Harvard Macy Institute and will be held during Oct 14 - 20, 2018 at Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
The target audience for this medical event is Professionals engaged in health care education for students, residents, peers, and patients. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 42.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Course Description :
This activity provides health care educators with the skills needed to make use of current technology and social medial tools to support teaching and learning. Participants learn how to use technology to create learning environments and materials, filters to manage information overload and customize online searchable repositories. In short, the course teaches how to leverage Web 2.0 and social medial tools to create professional learning networks.
This course will be organized around the following threads:
• Asynchronous and online learning - Creating an eLearning module using an open source virtual learning environment - Moodle.
• Classroom technology for interactive learning - Advanced PowerPoint, Audience Response Systems - use of classroom clickers vs. online ARS tools.
• Managing information - Combat information over-load by creating filters and encoding digital information in external memory for easy search and retrieval- Real Simple Syndication (RSS) and Social Bookmarking and annotation.
• Social Media, online communities of inquiry and social constructivism and connectivism - Google+ and Twitter.
Course Objectives :
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Independently develop online instruction material and host it in a Virtual Learning Environment.
• Implement appropriate use of technology to enhance learning activities inside and outside the classroom.
• Use social media to form a community of inquiry and identify the potential role of using this model at their own institutions.
• Utilize tools for creating filters to manage information overload and for collaborating with a professional learning network to enhance learning.
• Describe the entrepreneurial issues that are relevant to e-learning applications or modules.
• Design short videos for on-line teaching modules.
• Describe the role of online learning in health care education in the context of cognitive science principles.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
The target audience for this medical event is Professionals engaged in health care education for students, residents, peers, and patients. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 42.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Course Description :
This activity provides health care educators with the skills needed to make use of current technology and social medial tools to support teaching and learning. Participants learn how to use technology to create learning environments and materials, filters to manage information overload and customize online searchable repositories. In short, the course teaches how to leverage Web 2.0 and social medial tools to create professional learning networks.
This course will be organized around the following threads:
• Asynchronous and online learning - Creating an eLearning module using an open source virtual learning environment - Moodle.
• Classroom technology for interactive learning - Advanced PowerPoint, Audience Response Systems - use of classroom clickers vs. online ARS tools.
• Managing information - Combat information over-load by creating filters and encoding digital information in external memory for easy search and retrieval- Real Simple Syndication (RSS) and Social Bookmarking and annotation.
• Social Media, online communities of inquiry and social constructivism and connectivism - Google+ and Twitter.
Course Objectives :
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Independently develop online instruction material and host it in a Virtual Learning Environment.
• Implement appropriate use of technology to enhance learning activities inside and outside the classroom.
• Use social media to form a community of inquiry and identify the potential role of using this model at their own institutions.
• Utilize tools for creating filters to manage information overload and for collaborating with a professional learning network to enhance learning.
• Describe the entrepreneurial issues that are relevant to e-learning applications or modules.
• Design short videos for on-line teaching modules.
• Describe the role of online learning in health care education in the context of cognitive science principles.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
KEY DATES
14 Oct, 2018
Event Start Date
20 Oct, 2018
Event End Date
SPECIALITIES
Medical EducationSUGGESTED HOTELS
CONFERENCE VENUE
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