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Integrated Microlearning – Concept and Options

A.Univ.Prof. Dr. Theo Hug / Innsbruck (Austria) EXPO E-Learning - Ferrara October 7, 2005 1

Integrated Microlearning –

Concept and Options of Professional Development in Medical Sectors

A.Univ.Prof.Dr. Theo Hug, Innsbruck (Austria)



Overview

Points of Departure

Concepts of Microlearning and the Innsbruck Version of Integrated Microlearning (IML)

Applications in Medical Sectors - Examples

Conclusion



Points of Departure

End of e-learning hypes and search for new solutions

hesitant and selective introduction of ICT in health care sectors of Europe

Paradoxes und ambivalences in e-education and e-health developments

Challenges in the context of „Lifelong Learning“

Need for next generation e-Education solutions



Next Generation Topics and Issues Culture, Identity and Learning

Media Cultures, Cultural Industries, spatial-temporal mobility Learning environments & learning cultures,

ludic, network and knowledge spaces Learner and customer centered orientations - new skills

Tools and technologies New mobile and web-technologies, smart media developments,

adaptive and pervasive systems - Creative use of new tools

Institutional Transitions and Market Changes EU-Enlargement New channels to market and new business models

Next generation solutions? Need of thinking and bringing together cultural,

educational, social, organizational and technological dimensions

Potentials of microlearning approaches



Concepts and Versions of Microlearning



Defining Integrated Microlearning (IML)

Aiming at persisting changes of behaviour, attitudes, action patterns, mental abilities and sustainable alterations of performances by means of small steps and relatively short efforts (learning activitites last 15 to 30 seconds) small units of content (complex / simplex) concomitant learning Knowledge Pulse® technology (server-client architecture)

Further characteristics open, flexible and modular … but also: learning management embedded in workflows and daily life … but: knowledge architecture Short learning sequences are initiated according to the use of media and the client

settings Creating learning spaces by making use of the use of media Small units are delivered automatically („push“) next steps are put forward by a Microstep Manager®



Multi Platform

Server withMicro Step Manager®

Mobile Client

PC or LaptopHTTP



Mobile Client

Knowledge Pulse®

Smart Switch is part of Client Device

Knowledge Pulse® Client

Standard Client

PUSH!



Example 1:Children loose Weight with their Handy

Project in cooperation with the Austrian Society of medical Science for Children and Youth:

SlimPhone

Long-term behavioural change in nutrition

Teenagers are only allowed to use their mobile phones after answerwing a multiple choice question regarding nutrition



Example 2:CME Certification everytime and everywhere

Continuing education for physicians

Cooperation with the Austrian Society of Pneumology

Combining specialist literature and microlearning

In-service taining and strategic learning managment

LCMS integration Meeting criteria of CME program Meeting examination criteria of the

Austrian Medical associationCME EasyEasy



Visions: Integrating Learning Activities in Everyday Routines



Integrated Microlearning - Conclusions General aspects

Overcoming educational lags – from “new media & old pedagogy” to new educational concepts for learning in mediated environments

Integrated Microlearning (IML) rather is a complement to the various forms and ways of learning that a substitute

The IML approach can be used as an instrument to enhance and enrich learning processes and to support creative didactical methods

IML offers new ways of bridging informal and (non)-formal learning in a mediated world

Integrated Microlearning and e-health applications Supporting health care services delivery beyond organisational boundaries Improving continuing education for hospital employees Complement to online and offline services for professionals, patients and citizens concomitant learning considering increasing citizen mobility Promoting learner and citizen centered models and at the same time supporting healthcare

system development Continuity and sustainability of care

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