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

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

32

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2000. IWALT 2000. Proceedings. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Palmerston North

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0653-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWALT.2000.890559

Filename

890559