5 Best Practices for Delivering Healthcare Education in Moodle

Editor's Notes

1. James Bridgewater is responsible for managing CASN’s open source learning management system so that nurse educators across Canada receive certificates of the highest standard. Prior to implementing Moodle, James and his team struggled to deliver online education to their geographically disparate learners. Completely new to Moodle, James got CASN up and running quickly with the help of Lambda Solutions. Educating himself on Moodle so he could train his colleagues at CASN, the Association now provides leading online education to over 500 healthcare practitioners a year.   
2. Why is Lambda talking today about Top LMS Features – our background is in Cloud Learning Management and we are full service organization headquartered in Vancouver, BC. We specialize in open source learning management systems like Moodle and Totara Both Learning Management Systems are feature rich and most importantly – they are 80% more cost effective when you match leading competitors in the market today making them one of the fastest growing technologies in our space. And as experts in eLearning and implementing the platform that we have found reduces IT operating costs by more than 40%. We have over 600 deployments under our belt that have allowed us to soak up industry best practices and pass them onto you. Like today’s webinar topic!
3. The objectives of CASN is the official accrediting agency for university nursing programs in Canada To lead nursing education and nursing scholarship in the interest of healthier Canadians. official accrediting agency for university nursing programs in Canada CASN/ACESI: Speaks for Canadian nursing education and scholarship Establishes and promotes national standards of excellence for nursing education Promotes the advancement of nursing knowledge Facilitates the integration of theory, research and practice Contributes to public policy Provides a national forum for issues in nursing education and research
4. Today’s session is interactive, so let’s start with Poll question one so we can get to know each other.
5. Implementation with Moodle: Professional development courses for nurse educators that are training the next generation students that are doing clinical no prior knowledge with Moodle (if I were a user what would I want to see, if I were an admin?) Moodle was best fit for the small organization Simple enough to hit the ground running with Moodle Enough time for James to learn to get started Blackboard too big for their small org,  When they do an interaction of a course or webinar: 75 registrants that take a singular course Close to 1000 educated 3 courses, more to come (7 weeks)
6. Implementation with Moodle: Professional development courses for nurse educators that are training the next generation students that are doing clinical no prior knowledge with Moodle (if I were a user what would I want to see, if I were an admin?) Moodle was best fit for the small organization Simple enough to hit the ground running with Moodle Enough time for James to learn to get started Blackboard too big for their small org,  When they do an interaction of a course or webinar: 75 registrants that take a singular course Close to 1000 educated 3 courses, more to come (7 weeks)
7. What best practices do you recommend for other healthcare organization implementing Moodle? How long did it take? What unexpected barriers did you face?
8. What best practices do you recommend for other healthcare organization implementing Moodle? How long did it take? What unexpected barriers did you face?
9. What is your process for getting courses up and running in Moodle? What are key time saving tips for creating courses in Moodle? How do you enroll cohorts into Moodle courses?
10. What key features do you use in Moodle? How have these features helped you achieve CASN’s online learning goals?
11. eCommerce Paypal, course merchant, 2Checkout Coursemerchant: Merchant is an eCommerce integration designed for Moodle so you can sell courses, market courses and manage courses online. This eCommerce integration for Moodle provides all features that users would expect to see when shopping online. The sophisticated shopping cart is CRM Integrations SugarCRM, Salesforce, Infusionsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems provide deep value for sales teams and organizations at large due to the capacity to track, automate and organize interactions with customers. Organizations who use Moodle for partner, client, channel or sales training began to see the benefit of having learning information synced with Salesforce. As such a number of integrations have been developed.
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13. Another thing you want to think about is the ‘What’s in it for me?’ factor. This is crucial for adult learners. You can load up your course with facts and figures but unless you present a clear message about what this learning can do for the learner, you’re in danger of them turning off. It’s the motivating factors – for instance, is this learning going to make their job safer/easier? Can they earn more money by applying what your course is teaching? Are there negative consequences for not learning this information? You’ve probably heard that fear of loss is a bigger motivator than potential for gain. We find it’s best if you can address the WIIFM factor right up front in a clear way that connects personally to the learner and their job. We’ll often include a case study or scenario to do this – storytelling is a powerful technique.
14. A related thing you want to consider is engaging the learner with the content through the course in a way that ties it back to their job. You can do this through realistic questions, scenario-based learning and interactive exercises that tie in to what they actually have to do on the job. The occasional “Jeopardy” style review game is ok when you’re looking to have people memorize facts, but it generally doesn’t help them learn to apply what your course is teaching back on the job – and that’s what we usually want them to do. Michael Allen of Allen Interactions has written a couple of great books on this topic – Designing Effective eLearning and Creating Effective eLearning. He promotes a context-challenge-activity-feedback, or CCAF approach for eLearning, which closely ties what’s going on in the eLearning environment to what you want learners to do on the job. It gives you a great structure for your development.
15. It’s important to consider an eLearning course as part of a learning experience, not a complete learning event in itself. There’s something we call the 70/20/10 rule – this is based on research that’s been around for more than 50 years. It states that 70% of learning comes from informal learning experiences, 20% comes from people, and 10% comes from formal learning events. Let’s look at each of those in a bit more detail and what they can mean for in the context of you and your eLearning course. let’s start with the 10% - formal learning events. This is your eLearning course, or it could be a classroom course, reading that is undertaken specifically for the purpose of learning. Only 10%? That’s not much! I know, it’s not a big part but it’s an important part. This is where you provide the standards, expectations, etc, to do with your learning, so it’s very important learning and often the foundational piece. You can think of it this way: if my eLearning course takes someone about one hour to complete, I have to expect that they will need 2 hours of feedback from people and 7 hours of informal learning experiences before they really ‘get it’. the 20% of learning that comes from people is primarily going to be feedback learners get from supervisors, managers and/or other experts as they start applying their new learning on the job. the 70%...
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