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Managing Educational Content
The larger an enterprise, the more challenging it is to cost-effectively manage the development of content across the enterprise. That challenge grows further when an organization such as the Department of Veterans Affairs seeks to collaborate with others and create a community of practice.
Learn from the VA's efforts by reading a whitepaper entitled Healthcare Training Content Management Strategies Whitepaper.
Written by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, it will help you plan your content management strategy.
AAMC Facilitates Publishing and Sharing of Educational Materials
High-quality teaching materials in medicine are costly to produce. For example, a single virtual patient can cost upwards of $100,000. To enable the publishing and sharing of peer-reviewed educational materials, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has created MedEdPORTAL. Find out more in this article by Robby Reynolds and Chris Candler.
SCORM for Healthcare Resources
A variety of resources are available to help you learn about maximizing the use and decreasing the cost of your healthcare e-learning.
By the end of this article, the reader will be able to...
Learning objectives define the purpose of a unit of instruction and describe what the learner should be able to do, know, or feel at the end of the instruction. Valerie Smothers presents a quick lesson on writing learning objectives.
Is it live or is it virtual?
Since the dawn of medicine, teachers have presented their students with fictive patients and cases to illustrate their lessons. In her article Modeling Virtual Patients and Virtual Cases, Rachel Ellaway of the University of Edinburgh describes how virtual patients and cases are used in healthcare education currently and how technology standards can help us craft better learning tools in the future.
