Thursday, 9 October 2014
Monday, 6 October 2014
the analysis experience
This too much work will kill my creativity. I thought so. But I realised the creativity should still follow certain rules, failure of which may result in a disaster.
Again I thought very big, then I said hang on , maybe start small to avoid cumbersome process before I get the grip. Finally it became clear to me, below is my journey for the week, but please don't ask me where I am, all I know is I am on the right road.
Experience and past studies have showed that clinical nurses in Lesotho are not taught how to make clinical learning happen, but on graduation they are expected to facilitate learning. God knows how they do it. It is such a frustrating experience to some of them they end up quitting. I had a chat with some of them and they showed an interest and a need to learn about clinical teaching. With time being a limited factor, they prefer distance learning mediated by cellphone since its the one easily accessible. Opps further digging suggested a mission impossible task, but maybe for the future it will work.
Without destroying my creativity, I realised that using the computer and cellphone students can learn performing a wound dressing with an opportunity to analyse their performance, and the instructors getting an opportunity to review the videos and give comprehensive feedback. Students think that they don't get to return demonstrate many skills to their instructors because they are many in number, so they think the video feedback will do the trick. I thought deeply about this and the more I think about it, the more I get excited about its prospects.
There is of perpetual feedback to students on their skills, students like it. Content is readily available, the technical expertise required is photographing that can be worked around and resources seem to accessible.
I will give it some more thought when the excitement is gone.
Again I thought very big, then I said hang on , maybe start small to avoid cumbersome process before I get the grip. Finally it became clear to me, below is my journey for the week, but please don't ask me where I am, all I know is I am on the right road.
Experience and past studies have showed that clinical nurses in Lesotho are not taught how to make clinical learning happen, but on graduation they are expected to facilitate learning. God knows how they do it. It is such a frustrating experience to some of them they end up quitting. I had a chat with some of them and they showed an interest and a need to learn about clinical teaching. With time being a limited factor, they prefer distance learning mediated by cellphone since its the one easily accessible. Opps further digging suggested a mission impossible task, but maybe for the future it will work.
Without destroying my creativity, I realised that using the computer and cellphone students can learn performing a wound dressing with an opportunity to analyse their performance, and the instructors getting an opportunity to review the videos and give comprehensive feedback. Students think that they don't get to return demonstrate many skills to their instructors because they are many in number, so they think the video feedback will do the trick. I thought deeply about this and the more I think about it, the more I get excited about its prospects.
There is of perpetual feedback to students on their skills, students like it. Content is readily available, the technical expertise required is photographing that can be worked around and resources seem to accessible.
I will give it some more thought when the excitement is gone.
Friday, 31 January 2014
E- learning
E- learning is enjoying unparrelled popularity today in teaching and learning. As an aspiring health educationalist, I need to understand and know more about e-learning and what makes tick. I am hoping that at the end of the module I will be able to analyse, design, implement and evaluate in learning programmes in health sciences education.
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