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SANUS Foundation offers a School Healthcare Program to teach doctors and nurses how to track the health of schoolchildren using IT. The program includes beginner and advanced courses, trainings, and post-monitoring support. Challenges include limited IT knowledge and motivation among participants. The dilemma of choosing online vs. blended learning approaches is addressed.
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School Healthcare ProgramSANUS Non-profit Foundation for School Heathcare
School Healthcare Program • SANUS – to keep track of the health of schoolchildren • Clients: doctors, nurses • Goal: to teach them how to use it • Training: hybrid – PC-s on the spot
We advertise our trainings • facebook • email • personal contacts • supervisor nurses
Two types of trainings based on IT knowledge Beginners: • With limited IT knowledge and skills • Slow pace – assistance needed • 1st part of the course (teaching how to use computers) Advanced: • High level IT knowledge • Those ones who already use the software • To teach them the up-grades
The description of the course • 8 hour course, 20-25 people / course • In IT cabinet • We define • the learning objectives • Skills what to develop • Methods • Activities • Technical and pedagogical resources according to the common matrix • Evaluation: with the help of a questionnaire • Post – monitoring: by telephone • 24/7 helpdesk
Full online traninig for the advanced First teach the management Moodle Cooperation with the local university To „activate” our facebook site (frequent posts) Difficult to develop the e-learning material Limited IT knowledge of the beginners Old PC and slow net Lack of motivation Software –only environment →reduced social and cultural interaction Our goals and dilemmas
Would you like to have the whole course on-line? • Beginners: out of question (technophobia) • Advanced: • Solitary, impersonal • Easy to fall behind • No body language • No peer to peer learning • Only b-learning