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Learning From the Healthcare Training Industry
Since human lives are at stake, training in the healthcare industry is rigorous, intensive, and critical. Complicating matters, the medical world changes quickly as new procedures, practices, and technologies are introduced at an ever faster rate. To meet these challenges, healthcare has, in the last decade, embraced innovative learning technologies.
Co-written by Anya Wood, MDE, E-Learning Manager,
University Health Network, and Gary Woodill, Ed.D., Director, Research and Analysis, Brandon Hall Research, "Learning Technologies for Healthcare Education and Training" analyzes how the medical world uses a multitude of learning strategies to improve performance. These strategies include the following:
- Blended Learning
- Web-Based Learning
- Collaborative Learning
- Narrative Learning
- Case- and Scenario-Based Learning
- Personalized Learning
- Tele-Health Learning
- Mobile Learning
- Immersive Learning
In looking to improve learning, many organizations tend to focus on common practices within their own industry. All organizations could benefit from examining the training practices of the
healthcare industry, which include the following:
- Using narrative, storytelling, and blogging
- Using mobile phones for learning
- Using podcasting
- Using avatars and 3-D environments
- Leveraging games in training
- Using mashups and Web Services
- And more...
This report also includes more than 450 hyperlinks to online resources describing how each learning strategy is being used in healthcare today.
Want to supercharge your learning initiatives? Learn from the best practices of one of the most learning-centric industries, the medical world.
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