I need your help. I am in the process of working on education geared toward physicians. The topics include regulatory safety and physicians in a leadership role. I am looking for ways to incorporate video, resources, blogs, and personal assessments into the design. I need these to be written at a very high level and provide sophisticated, yet easy to use interaction and navigation. I am looking for ideas...please help.
I would recommend taking a step back. and instead of thinking about the types of media (video, blogs, assessmentes etc) you want to include, first think about the overall purpose of the module. What need is the course going to fulfill? What do these physicians need to be able to do (or know) as a result of your course? What practice opportunities will they need to have, in order to get there? How will you know they have achieved mastery? And, an even more important question might be: what are the "business reasons" that are driving this training? Is there some situation or problem that the training is supposed to remedy?
If you can answer those sorts of questions and give us more context for what your course is designed to achieve, i am sure the Heroes here can suggest some engaging ways to build your course content.
Oh, believe me I wish I had all those answers, and eventually I will have them, but for right now the main goal is to create some design ideas that show what they can get out of an online course. We want to bring our physicians on board with online education, and right now, I think they are questioning whether online education will meet there need in supplying the types of interaction and quality they want. Feedback from them is that they want something highly sophisticated, (they don't want it to be a powerpoint that they enter through) that provides additional resources, video and interaction that guides them through decision making, not just has them click around. They feel that a lot of elearning is to basic, simple, and silly. So right now, I am not developing a full fledged course, but more of a shell with some things that showcase some ways we can meet their need of including these types of things. I have one idea in place already, but was looking for others.
Ah okay! Then it sounds like maybe you could really have some fun with this. Is it possible for you to get your hands on some sample content that they already have in place (like maybe materials they are using for a classroom training, or even some reference docs or something like that)? I think your prototypes will be more meaningful if they contain some "real" information that you could draw from.
I would try to put together some really tasteful looking Engage interactions... maybe mock up several interaction types like:
A labeled graphic of an anatomical model
A process interaction that shows the steps involvede in a medical procedure
A tabs interaction that shows some nice reference info in the form of a faq or glossary...
You could also use Quizmaker to build a really handsome-looking assessment. By using Slide View, you can do just about anything (design-wise) that you could do in PowerPoint.
I work with physicians and understand your balancing act or easy yet sophisticated.You want to sell your physicians on the idea that online education can be beneficial – what’s in it for them. What about a case study approach?Physicians think of their patients as “cases” anyway; they are used to the concept. The case study can either start with the outcome (good or bad) or start at the beginning.For example – start a case study on new CMS regulations with a bad outcome:Physician is writing a check for $500,000 to the government for CMS violations he did not know about.The physician can then “remember/dream” about what decisions he made that got him into this mess.
I really feel you’ll want to focus on activities/scenarios for the main learning environment. Physicians see a problem and then they look for information. They don’t see information first.
If you need/want to incorporate various media, or even as a course theme, Tom recently posted about creating a course that looks like an iPad. You could the icons at the top of the screen as the course topics and the application icons at the bottom of the screen (the ones that don’t change) for the resources.
I work with physicians and understand your balancing act or easy yet sophisticated.You want to sell your physicians on the idea that online education can be beneficial – what’s in it for them. What about a case study approach?Physicians think of their patients as “cases” anyway; they are used to the concept. The case study can either start with the outcome (good or bad) or start at the beginning.For example – start a case study on new CMS regulations with a bad outcome:Physician is writing a check for $500,000 to the government for CMS violations he did not know about.The physician can then “remember/dream” about what decisions he made that got him into this mess.
I really feel you’ll want to focus on activities/scenarios for the main learning environment. Physicians see a problem and then they look for information. They don’t see information first.
If you need/want to incorporate various media, or even as a course theme, Tom recently posted about creating a course that looks like an iPad. You could the icons at the top of the screen as the course topics and the application icons at the bottom of the screen (the ones that don’t change) for the resources.
What a great opportunity. Are you already in the ELearning in Healthcare group? If you search "Healthcare" in the forum you will get all kinds of responses. Here is a starting point for you.
I have seen some fantastic examples of healthcare courses. Nearly all of them are scenario based, allowing the physicians to explore and make a diagnosis. I wish I could find the links so some of those samples. I'll poke around my archives and see if I can find some.
What tool are you working with? Studio, Storyline or other?
Rhona, my bad. Some well placed quotes would have helped. Are you in the " ELearning in Healthcare" group? There is a group in this forum that specifically discusses healthcare related training. I think the link I posted was old from when they first started meeting. I'm not positive, but I believe they have monthly discussions. At the very least it will help you identify some more people who could give you some great examples
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Hi there Rhona,
I would recommend taking a step back. and instead of thinking about the types of media (video, blogs, assessmentes etc) you want to include, first think about the overall purpose of the module. What need is the course going to fulfill? What do these physicians need to be able to do (or know) as a result of your course? What practice opportunities will they need to have, in order to get there? How will you know they have achieved mastery? And, an even more important question might be: what are the "business reasons" that are driving this training? Is there some situation or problem that the training is supposed to remedy?
If you can answer those sorts of questions and give us more context for what your course is designed to achieve, i am sure the Heroes here can suggest some engaging ways to build your course content.
Hey Saenna,
Oh, believe me I wish I had all those answers, and eventually I will have them, but for right now the main goal is to create some design ideas that show what they can get out of an online course. We want to bring our physicians on board with online education, and right now, I think they are questioning whether online education will meet there need in supplying the types of interaction and quality they want. Feedback from them is that they want something highly sophisticated, (they don't want it to be a powerpoint that they enter through) that provides additional resources, video and interaction that guides them through decision making, not just has them click around. They feel that a lot of elearning is to basic, simple, and silly. So right now, I am not developing a full fledged course, but more of a shell with some things that showcase some ways we can meet their need of including these types of things. I have one idea in place already, but was looking for others.
Thanks
Ah okay! Then it sounds like maybe you could really have some fun with this.
Is it possible for you to get your hands on some sample content that they already have in place (like maybe materials they are using for a classroom training, or even some reference docs or something like that)? I think your prototypes will be more meaningful if they contain some "real" information that you could draw from.
I would try to put together some really tasteful looking Engage interactions... maybe mock up several interaction types like:
A labeled graphic of an anatomical model
A process interaction that shows the steps involvede in a medical procedure
A tabs interaction that shows some nice reference info in the form of a faq or glossary...
You could also use Quizmaker to build a really handsome-looking assessment. By using Slide View, you can do just about anything (design-wise) that you could do in PowerPoint.
have you seen the Diabesity course that won the Guru Award? That would be a great model for inspiration: http://www.articulate.com/blog/how-e-mersion-earned-gold-in-the-articulate-guru-awards/ The blog post shows a little bit about some of the techniques they used.
I work with physicians and understand your balancing act or easy yet sophisticated. You want to sell your physicians on the idea that online education can be beneficial – what’s in it for them. What about a case study approach? Physicians think of their patients as “cases” anyway; they are used to the concept. The case study can either start with the outcome (good or bad) or start at the beginning. For example – start a case study on new CMS regulations with a bad outcome: Physician is writing a check for $500,000 to the government for CMS violations he did not know about. The physician can then “remember/dream” about what decisions he made that got him into this mess.
I really feel you’ll want to focus on activities/scenarios for the main learning environment. Physicians see a problem and then they look for information. They don’t see information first.
If you need/want to incorporate various media, or even as a course theme, Tom recently posted about creating a course that looks like an iPad. You could the icons at the top of the screen as the course topics and the application icons at the bottom of the screen (the ones that don’t change) for the resources.
Good luck! I'd love to see how it works out.
Alicia
I like Alicia's thoughts.
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Hi Rhona,
What a great opportunity. Are you already in the ELearning in Healthcare group? If you search "Healthcare" in the forum you will get all kinds of responses. Here is a starting point for you.
I have seen some fantastic examples of healthcare courses. Nearly all of them are scenario based, allowing the physicians to explore and make a diagnosis. I wish I could find the links so some of those samples. I'll poke around my archives and see if I can find some.
What tool are you working with? Studio, Storyline or other?
I can not think you all enough for all the wonderful tips and suggestions.
Natalia, yes I currently work in healthcare. I love it! Never a dull moment. I most likely would be using storyline, but have other resources as well.
Thanks everyone and Happy New Year!
Rhona, my bad. Some well placed quotes would have helped. Are you in the " ELearning in Healthcare" group? There is a group in this forum that specifically discusses healthcare related training. I think the link I posted was old from when they first started meeting. I'm not positive, but I believe they have monthly discussions. At the very least it will help you identify some more people who could give you some great examples
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