The Challenge of Four-Status Model of eLearning: Principles Toward a New Understanding for Healthcare Professionals
The Challenge of Four-Status Model of eLearning: Principles Toward a New Understanding for Healthcare Professionals
This paper presents the critical reviews of the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning for healthcare professionals. The impact of learning on healthcare professionals is explored; the focus is on healthcare 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 (IF-PC). IF-PC model of barriers and drivers of eLearning is being adopted as a template for the design of all eLearning, to the exclusion of other ideas. Using a case study approach the research, completed in 2006, had two phases. A questionnaire was distributed to a group healthcare professional student to gain information with questions adapted from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Phase 2 employed three strands of data collection: interviews, a group discussions, and observation were employed to help with the understanding of the problems in greater depth. Data was analysed using a form of pattern matching. An evaluation of the adoption of eLearning in Thailand is presented along with a discussion on the findings. It appears that alternative models of eLearning cannot be disregarded. This has interesting consequences for the implementation of eLearning especially in developing countries.
eLearning, e-learning, eLearning model, Online Learning, Healthcare professionals, Technology Enhanced learning
Turnbull, Niruwan
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Wills, Gary
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Gobbi, Mary
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13 January 2011
Turnbull, Niruwan
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Wills, Gary
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Gobbi, Mary
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Turnbull, Niruwan, Wills, Gary and Gobbi, Mary
(2011)
The Challenge of Four-Status Model of eLearning: Principles Toward a New Understanding for Healthcare Professionals.
International eLearning Conference (IEC2011), Bangkok, Thailand.
13 - 14 Jan 2011.
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This paper presents the critical reviews of the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning for healthcare professionals. The impact of learning on healthcare professionals is explored; the focus is on healthcare 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 (IF-PC). IF-PC model of barriers and drivers of eLearning is being adopted as a template for the design of all eLearning, to the exclusion of other ideas. Using a case study approach the research, completed in 2006, had two phases. A questionnaire was distributed to a group healthcare professional student to gain information with questions adapted from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Phase 2 employed three strands of data collection: interviews, a group discussions, and observation were employed to help with the understanding of the problems in greater depth. Data was analysed using a form of pattern matching. An evaluation of the adoption of eLearning in Thailand is presented along with a discussion on the findings. It appears that alternative models of eLearning cannot be disregarded. This has interesting consequences for the implementation of eLearning especially in developing countries.
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Published date: 13 January 2011
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Event Dates: January 13-14, 2011
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International eLearning Conference (IEC2011), Bangkok, Thailand, 2011-01-13 - 2011-01-14
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eLearning, e-learning, eLearning model, Online Learning, Healthcare professionals, Technology Enhanced learning
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Electronic & Software Systems
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Local EPrints ID: 273026
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/273026
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Niruwan Turnbull
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Gary Wills
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Mary Gobbi
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