Transcript ACHS_GreenEduPrograms_2010

Environmentally Friendly Educational Formats
March 2010
Environmentally Friendly Learning
Formats
• Web-Based
– Live
– Archive
– Audio
– Video
• Teleconferences
– Africa Calls
• Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
– Research findings on effectiveness of education
Drivers of Environmentally Friendly
Formats
• Green Movement
• Increased Workload Demands on Health
Care Providers
– Less time for travel for education
• Customer trends
– By 2016 half of CME will be online according to 2010
issue of Journal of Continuing Education in the
Health Professions
• Demographics of target audience
– Younger generation of doctors
Benefits of Environmentally Friendly
Formats
• Cost
• Convenience
• Focused Learning
– specific topic web programs vs. broad live
conference
• Time efficiency
• Reach
Benefits of Environmentally Friendly
Formats (Cont.)
• Environmental Impact
– From live meetings (impact from travel) to web based
education/ communication
– From Brochures to e-mails / information on web
pages
– From printed to online syllabus
Evolution of Environmentally Friendly
Formats
• Technological Advances in Learning
Mediums
– From didactic to interactive
– From interactive to personalized (branching
technology)
– From interactive to social networking
Lessons Learned from Environmentally
Friendly Formats
• Vendor selection - key to success
– Understands you and your needs
– Knows your goals and end results
– Stays on top of technological advances
– Is responsive and customer oriented
– Knows the audience and their technical
capabilities
– Has robust reporting capabilities
Lessons Learned from Environmentally
Friendly Formats
• Importance of initial data set
– Data consistency
• Drop down menus
– Data set up
• Broken down into smallest possible data fields
– Data analysis/ease of data mining
Annenberg Center Goals for the Future
• One database that replaces current systems
– Less virtual storage used
– Less paper use as documents stored in the database
– Ease of data collection and analysis (less postage,
paper use)
– Ability for health care professionals to receive
their certificates online
• Access their professional portfolios on demand
Q&A