Title :
Education for health care professionals through the medium of the Internet
Author :
Beer, Martin ; Green, Sharon ; Nefti, Samia ; Sixsmith, Andrew ; Whatley, Janice
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Liverpool Univ., UK
Abstract :
The paper describes an initiative to provide Internet based courses to student and professional occupational therapists in four centres in the UK, Belgium the Netherlands and Sweden. The basis of this collaborative Occupational Therapy Internet School (OTIS) is the concept of the “virtual college”. A major feature of the course organisation is the adoption of a problem-based approach in which students will collaborate internationally to propose effective intervention in given case study scenarios
Keywords :
Internet; biomedical education; continuing education; distance learning; educational courses; groupware; health care; medical computing; professional aspects; Internet based courses; collaborative Occupational Therapy Internet School; education; health care professionals; international collaboration; problem-based approach; professional occupational therapists; student occupational therapists; virtual college; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Information systems; International collaboration; Internet; Medical services; Medical treatment; Telematics;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2000. IWALT 2000. Proceedings. International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Palmerston North
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0653-4
DOI :
10.1109/IWALT.2000.890559
