Tag: Distance Learning
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Council on Higher Education ICT colloquium
The Council on Higher Education in South Africa is an independent statutory body that advises the government on all aspects of higher education policy, and today they held a colloquium on the use of ICTs in higher education. Here are the notes I took during the session. Consonance and Dissonance in ICT and Higher Education…
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AMEE conference (day 2)
accreditation, AMEE, AMEE11, anatomy course, athol kent, clinical competencies, collaboration, competence, dental students, distance education, Distance Learning, encyclopaedia, fictional city, gaming in education, global medical education, global medicine, globalisation, interanationalisation, international medical education, language, learning resources, lexicon, life-long education, life-long learning, mobile devices, mobile learning, portfolios, professional culture, reflective journals, self-directed learning, virtual city, virtual clinical encounterThese are the notes I took on the second day of AMEE. One of the things I noticed is that in most of the presentations the speakers talk about “doctors”, and that little is said about “health professionals”. There seem to be few people here who understand that effective healthcare can only be delivered by…