User:Randyfisher/WE Intro/Sustainable Knowledge Skills Transfer

Sustainable Knowledge & Skills Transfer

 * Evidence-based medicine is contingent upon effective transfer of knowledge and skills to improve practice & health outcomes.
 * Issuing and disseminating toolkits, guidelines and best practices is ineffective because they are often not implemented or followed-up.
 * The conceptions of knowledge and skills as situated, tacit, and practice-based also indicate one-off injections are no longer valid in the new net-world of learning stored in connected networks
 * Learning is now understood as actionable & applied knowledge, that is situated in rich learning ecologies, collaborative, contingent, apprenticed, reflective, socially constructed through dialogue for problem-solving in context.
 * How can one-off conferences & workshops sustain the transfer of learning to improve practice without overcoming the constraints of time & distance?

Educators Can Make A Difference
How?
 * Paying attention to issues of pedagogical design
 * Framing education around policy priorities, essential questions where research & capacity gap exists, strategic goals and objectives related to on-going and summative assessment of members learning
 * Using e-learning to sustain transfer of Knowledge & Skills to improve performance across distance
 * Leverage health conference workshops programme to scale

Change Management Action Research Pilot: Project Design Goals

 * To build professionals’ capacity for CPDE
 * To enrich health professionals culture as a global learning community
 * To improve professional engagement through continuous learning communities beyond workshops
 * To optimize knowledge & skills transfer
 * To integrate ICT strategically into education programmes & conferences

What About Technology?

 * Web-based distance & flexible learning means we can reach more members to further continue education beyond one-off conference workshops
 * E-learning, m-learning, e-health, m-health offer opportunities to reach hard-to-reach professionals who find it difficult to attend workshops or conferences
 * Health professionals digital literacy needs & skills building are a priority in 21st century
 * Some have begun to move in this direction – e-mentoring, online communities, Resource Library

What's in it for the Organization / University ?

 * Deepen members’ engagement in developing their own learning solutions through participatory collaboration framework
 * Deliver strategic plan goals
 * Harness technology & new media intelligently by building e-learning competence among membership
 * Innovate to take AIDS Conferences to the 21st century
 * Build partnerships with top-notch academic partners
 * Play a leadership role in health professional education compared to our competitors
 * Improve organization educational effectiveness for sustainable impact on members practice
 * Higher return from investment in education than one-off workshops
 * Deepen staff & stakeholders ownership of organizational strategy
 * Align & cohere conference & ‘non-conference’ parts of organization