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Best Approaches

Best Approaches provides advice, guidelines, and best practices that will help people involved in planning and implementing e-learning programs in healthcare to learn quickly about what works and what doesn't. We invite you to participate by contributing your ideas and soliciting advice in the discussions. To suggest a topic or contribute an article, contact Valerie Smothers, MELD's Director of Communications.

MELD Articles

Considerations for Selecting a Learning Management System for Healthcare Education

There are many factors to consider when selecting a Learning Management System (LMS) for your organization. In this article, Valerie Smothers of the MedBiquitous Consortium provides a list of important requirements that will help you select an LMS that supports technology standards for healthcare education. A standards-compliant LMS will enable your organization to better leverage learning content and make that content more accessible to learners when and where they need it.

From Other Sources

SCORM Best Practices Guide for Content Developers

This guide is written for content developers, instructional designers, writers, programmers, and subject matter experts tasked with creating new content that is SCORM conformant or converting existing content into SCORM conformant content. The guide provides a step-by-step process for using SCORM and tips to make your SCORM implementation easier.

Source: Learning System Archictecture Lab

The SCORM Implementation Guide: A Step by Step Approach

This guide focuses on the practical application of the SCORM and serves as an introduction for instructional designers responsible for SCORM implementation.

Source: Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative

Best Practices for Advanced Distributed Learning

This guide identifies best practices associated with the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of distance learning.

Source: Joint Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory

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