The challenge to the four-status eLearning model for healthcare professionals: a critique on a developing world case study
The challenge to the four-status eLearning model for healthcare professionals: a critique on a developing world case study
This paper presents the critical reviews of the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning for health professionals. The impact of eLearning on healthcare professionals is explored; the focus is on health professionals in rural Thailand. Literature suggests that there are four main topics related to the drivers and barriers in eLearning, they are: Infrastructure; Finance; Policies; and Culture (IFPC). Because of the reports of online learning success and the growing use in all areas of higher education, understanding of successful implantation is limited, especially for healthcare professionals in developing countries. The model of barriers and drivers is being adopted as a template for the design of all eLearning, to the exclusion of other ideas. An evaluation of the adoption of e-learning in Thailand is presented along with a discussion on the findings. This paper suggested that the four-status model would help understand how to successfully implement an eLearning course. This has interesting consequences for the implementation of e-learning especially in developing countries.
e-learning, Online Learning, Healthcare professionals, e-learning model, technology enhance learning, higher education.
Turnbull, Niruwan
170cac06-1829-4926-a865-18651750de75
Wills, Gary
3a594558-6921-4e82-8098-38cd8d4e8aa0
Gobbi, Mary
796bb394-3fe5-4e8c-8ca9-b4a7e086e83a
November 2010
Turnbull, Niruwan
170cac06-1829-4926-a865-18651750de75
Wills, Gary
3a594558-6921-4e82-8098-38cd8d4e8aa0
Gobbi, Mary
796bb394-3fe5-4e8c-8ca9-b4a7e086e83a
Turnbull, Niruwan, Wills, Gary and Gobbi, Mary
(2010)
The challenge to the four-status eLearning model for healthcare professionals: a critique on a developing world case study.
International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2010), Madrid, Spain.
15 - 17 Nov 2010.
Record type:
Conference or Workshop Item
(Paper)
Abstract
This paper presents the critical reviews of the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning for health professionals. The impact of eLearning on healthcare professionals is explored; the focus is on health professionals in rural Thailand. Literature suggests that there are four main topics related to the drivers and barriers in eLearning, they are: Infrastructure; Finance; Policies; and Culture (IFPC). Because of the reports of online learning success and the growing use in all areas of higher education, understanding of successful implantation is limited, especially for healthcare professionals in developing countries. The model of barriers and drivers is being adopted as a template for the design of all eLearning, to the exclusion of other ideas. An evaluation of the adoption of e-learning in Thailand is presented along with a discussion on the findings. This paper suggested that the four-status model would help understand how to successfully implement an eLearning course. This has interesting consequences for the implementation of e-learning especially in developing countries.
Text
ICERI2010-MADRID.pdf
- Other
More information
Published date: November 2010
Additional Information:
Event Dates: November 15-17,
Venue - Dates:
International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2010), Madrid, Spain, 2010-11-15 - 2010-11-17
Keywords:
e-learning, Online Learning, Healthcare professionals, e-learning model, technology enhance learning, higher education.
Organisations:
Electronics & Computer Science
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 273025
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/273025
PURE UUID: 73f4f85e-6820-4495-a732-ba823c826a54
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 21 Nov 2011 08:14
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:51
Export record
Contributors
Author:
Niruwan Turnbull
Author:
Gary Wills
Author:
Mary Gobbi
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics