ICT to support physio students: my presentation at SAAHE

Here is the full content of the presentation I gave at the SAAHE conference on 20 June, 2008. In it I discuss some of the key findings of my Masters thesis, “The use of information and communication technology as a means of providing support to physiotherapy students“. They include:

• Students view ICT as a means of accessing information, rather than obtaining support.
• Students fail to use ICT to enhance communication, even though they have the skills to do so.
• Research was highlighted as the area in which more than a third of students were least confident.
• Students are unlikely to approach their peers for support.

These findings suggest that South African physiotherapy students do not make use of ICT in ways that would enhance their education, even though the literature showed how beneficial new technologies can be in this regard.

The presentation is available in the following formats:

OpenDocument (.odp)
PDF (.pdf)
Powerpoint (.ppt)

Note: I know that the OpenDocument and PDF formats include all the notes I made and contains most of what I actually spoke about. I’m not sure if the notes on the slides were included when I exported to the Powerpoint format. The reasons for this are varied and have nothing to do with me.