My presentation at the 1st The Vasco Da Gama Movement Forum, Barcelona 7-8 February 2014.

1. eLearning in Public Health: Challenges and solutions for the
future
Nikos Papachristou
Life Science Informatics MSc, Education and Pedagogy Diploma
Health Technology Assessment MSc (Radboud), Global eHealth Unit of Imperial College London (Internship)
email: nikospapaxristou@gmail.com, twitter: ehealthgr
photo: http://elearningtech.blogspot.nl/2011/02/top-10-elearning-predictions-2011-lcbq.html

2. Framing the problem
• What is eLearning?
• Implications
• Healthcare needs and problems
• Impact – Current trends
• Future integration of eLearning technology
in daily clinical practice and public health
photo: http://newventurist.com/2013/02/once-more-unto-the-breach-muses-on-presenting/

3. A “simple” definition…
“E-learning is inclusive of, and is
broadly synonymous with multimedia
earning, technology-enhanced
learning (TEL),computer-based
instruction (CBI), computer-based
training (CBT), computer-assisted
instruction or computer-aided
instruction (CAI), internet-based
training (IBT),web-based
training (WBT), online
education, virtual education, virtual
learning environments (VLE) (which
are also called learning platforms), mlearning, and digital educational
collaboration”: wikipedia
photo: http://www.mwcomputing.com/page6.php

4. It is more than intuition…
e.g. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework
photo: http://www.matt-koehler.com/tpack/using-the-tpack-image/

5. Types of eLearning based on action and content (1)
photo: http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/are-you-building-the-right-type-of-e-learning-course/

6. Types of eLearning based on action and content (2)
photo: http://www.meded.umn.edu/curriculum/competencies/

7. Types of eLearning based on technology
+ serious games, virtual patients/worlds
photo: http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/Elearning

8. Dimensions and adoption factors of eLearning
adoption, diffusion, implementation, translational science, etc…
photo: http://www.ektf.hu/~kbert/english/k5.htm

9. Cost effectiveness VS Return of Investment
photo: http://www.rms.net/lc_faq_other_roi.htm

10. Where are we today (1)
photo: http://www.worldofchildren.org/blog/health-worker-shortage/

11. Where are we today (2)
photo: http://www.economist.com/node/21563714 /

12. Where are we today (3)
photo: https://www.pwc.com/cz/en/verejna-sprava-zdravotnictvi/prices-of-excess-healthcare-spending.pdf

13. Today: Doing more with less…
photo: http://daindunston.com/2012/01/

14. Did you say MOOResearch?...
photo: http://daindunston.com/2012/01/

15. Global initiatives
photo: http://blog.coursera.org/post/64164078376/coursera-partners-with-the-world-bank

16. Local integration
photo: http://blog.coursera.org/post/65596539008/introducing-coursera-learning-hubs-global

17. eLearning and accreditation (1)
photo: https://www.edx.org/press/edx-massachusetts-community-colleges

18. eLearning and accreditation (2)
photo: http://chronicle.com/article/Obamas-Accreditation/137311/

19. offline web eLearning (e.g. eGranary, Khan Academy)
photo: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678884/bringing-online-education-to-mongolia-in-wireless-backpacks

20. eLearning in Academic Medicine
•Accelerating change in medical education – $11M AMA grant
for US medical schools
•http://www.ama-assn.org/sub/acceleratingchange/grant-projects.shtml
•Indiana University School of Medicine
•Grant for Virtual health care system (vHS) and teaching
electronic medical record (tEMR)

21. eLearning in public health crisis management
photo: http://news.utoronto.ca/teaching-time-crisis-looking-back-sars

22. Light-years Beyond Flexner: Academic Medicine in 2033
(AAMC)
photo: https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/lightyearsbeyondflexner/

23. The (e)Learning Healthcare System
photo: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11903

24. GPs Role?
photo: http://breakthroughhealthcoach.com/blog/

25. Technology not as a gadget (remember the digital natives)
photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152007791879412&set=gm.705375202835860&type=1&theater

26. Technology not as a threat
Are you Sarah Conner?
photo: http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/File:Terminator.jpg

27. Technology as an enabler
photo: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/trek-wins-urban-renewal-bones-mccoy-article-1.1343561

28. photo: http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/tag/etiquette/