Instructor - Dr. Rohana B. Marasinghe
Content Area
Introduction to Medical Education Informatics
(1) Principles of Medical Education
Educational Theories:
Adult learning theory, types of Learning Theories (Behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, connectivism, humanists theory), Kolb‘s learning cycle, learning domains (Blooms Taxonomy), learning modalities (Auditory, visual, kinesthetic and tactile), Introduction to Instructional Design Theories (ADDIE, KEMP and Rapid Prototyping) and learning communities (Communities of Practice, Online Learning Communities)
Introduction to Instructional Design ( http://bmi2017.blogspot.com/p/it-for-health-education-module-m10.html)
Assessments: Overview, competence assessment (Millar‘s pyramid), assessment tools, simulation based assessments, workplace based assessments, online assessment strategies, challenges in assessments
(2) Technology in medical education:
Principles of Multimedia Designing for Medical/Health professional Education
Interactive Multimedia for Education
Overview of Multimedia technologies, Multimedia Learning, multimedia Instructions and theoretical foundation, overview of SCORM, Components of SCORM and overview of m-Learning (Uses, technologies, challenges, authoring tools…etc).
Web 2.0 in education: Overview, transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, principles of Web 2.0, Web 2.0 technologies for Education (Blogs, Wiki, Social Bookmarking, Media Sharing, Social Networking, Collaborative tools, Bricolage and Mashups…etc)
Moodle: Installing Moodle, design basics in Moodle, enrolling students and assigning roles to students, using quizzes and questionnaires, conducting an online discussion, assessment tools in Moodle and tracking activity and reporting.
Objectives
At the end of this module, learner should be able to
1. describe what the learning is (compare different definitions)
2. apprehend the differences of learning in adult and children
3. classify different learning theories/principles
4. describe Kolb‘s learning cycle.
Activities
1. Discuss what do you mean by (relevant query)
2. Watch the video
3. Follow the presentation
4. Search the Internet to find out Definitions/Explanations
5. Contribute to the discussions
6. Post in your blog
