Ferramenta de apoio aos pais para orientação sobre saúde vocal infantil:: a construção de um curso em um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem / Parental support tool for guidance on children's vocal health:: the development of a course in a virtual learning environment / Herramienta de apoyo a los padres para orientación sobre salud vocal infantil:: la construcción de un curso en un entorno virtual de aprendizaje

Introdução: O ambiente virtual é um grande difusor do conhecimento e pode ser um aliado na complementação da terapia fonoaudiológica, como, por exemplo, na educação em saúde vocal. Diante das adversidades contemporâneas associadas à regulamentação da telefonoaudiologia, a disponibilização de materiais de apoio para a terapia fonoaudiológica, virtual ou híbrida, tornou-se urgente. Portanto, este estudo teve por objetivo apresentar o processo de elaboração de um curso sobre saúde vocal infantil, em um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem, para pais de crianças com queixas vocais. Descrição: O curso foi elaborado na Plataforma Moodle e contou com a parceria de um programador e analista de sistemas. O conteúdo foi desenvolvido com base na literatura sobre o tema e organizado em cinco módulos, com fóruns, estratégias de gamificação, vídeos, videoaulas, textos, figuras e questionários, com carga horária de oito horas. A proposta do curso foi avaliada em três etapas, por quatro juízes especialistas e dois leigos, considerando os parâmetros: design; organização; conteúdo; abordagem e tempo para realização. De acordo com a avaliação geral dos juízes, o curso apresentou design atrativo para o leitor, organizado e de fácil entendimento; conteúdo adequado para o público-alvo; instruções de fácil compreensão, suficientes e organizadas; tempo suficiente e ideal para a realização do curso. Considerações Finais: O processo de elaboração de um curso exige etapas importantes de levantamento de literatura e de avaliação. Esta proposta de curso virtual para pais de crianças com queixas ou distúrbios vocais foi avaliada positivamente.

Introduction: The virtual environment is a great tool to promote knowledge and can complement the speech-language pathology therapy, as shown in vocal health education. Given the contemporary challenges associated with the regulation of telehealth in speech-language pathology, there is an urgent need to provide support materials for virtual or hybrid speech-language pathology therapy. In this context, this study aimed to present the process of developing a course on children's vocal health, in a virtual learning environment, for parents of children with vocal complaints. Description: The course was developed on the Moodle Platform through a partnership with a programmer and systems analyst. The content was developed based on the literature surveyed on the subject and structured into five modules, including forums, gamification strategies, videos, video lessons, texts, figures and, questionnaires, with a workload of eight hours. The course proposal was evaluated in three steps, by four expert judges and two lay people, according to the following parameters: design; structure; content; approach and time to completion. According to the judges' general evaluation, the course had an attractive design for the participant, was structured and, easy to understand; the content was suitable for the target audience; the instructions were easy to understand, sufficient and structured; and the time was sufficient and ideal to take the course. Final Considerations: The process of developing a course requires important steps of evaluation and literature review. This virtual course proposal for parents of children with vocal complaints or disorders has been positively evaluated.

Introducción: El entorno virtual es un gran difusor del conocimiento y puede ser un aliado en la complementación de la terapia fonoaudiológica, como, por ejemplo, en la educación en salud vocal. Ante las actuales adversidades asociadas a la regulación de la telepráctica en logopedia, se ha convertido en una necesidad urgente el suministro de materiales de apoyo para la terapia fonoaudiológica, virtual o híbrida. Por lo tanto, este estudio tuvo como objetivo presentar el proceso de desarrollo de un curso sobre salud vocal infantil, en un entorno virtual de aprendizaje, para padres de niños con quejas vocales. Descripción: El curso se desarrolló en la Plataforma Moodle. Fue necesaria una asociación con un programador. El contenido se desarrolló a partir de materiales sobre el tema y se organizó en cinco módulos, con foros, estrategias de gamificación, videoclases, textos, figuras y cuestionarios, con una carga de trabajo de ocho horas. Se evaluó el diseño de la propuesta del curso; organización; contenido; enfoque y tiempo por cuatro jueces expertos y dos laicos en tres etapas de evaluación. Según la valoración general de los jueces, el curso presentó un diseño atractivo para el lector, organizado y fácil de entender; contenido adecuado para el público objetivo; instrucciones fáciles de entender, suficientes y organizadas; tiempo suficiente y ideal para el curso. Consideraciones finales: El proceso de elaboración de un curso exige etapas importantes de evaluación y de levantamiento de literatura. Esta propuesta ha sido evaluada positivamente.

Integration of Educational Technology.

Continued advancement has forced medical education to accept new ways in which to incorporate technology into its curriculum. As a result, technology has become a cornerstone to all levels of the medical education. This article compiles and discusses various avenues in which technology serves and betters education, ranging from administrative databases to cloud-based storage. Overall, technology can serve various educational purposes, including compilation, circulation, and integration of educational materials. The modalities discussed within this article, while numerous and adaptable, are a small portion of what the technological world has to offer.

Game Changer: Integrating Technology to Bring Competency and Policy to Life.

Using technology can transform methodologies for staff education and clinical practice while addressing different learning styles and competency needs. Video can enhance competency standardization and policy use. Videos increase staff engagement and level of confidence when supplementing clinical education and policy management. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2020;51(12):544-546.].

Teaching Instructional Technological Change to Medical School Faculty: A COVID-19 Case Study.

Collaboration between several College of Medicine departments, including the library, resulted in a creation of a new service for faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. By combining efforts, support for teaching online became a united effort and much less daunting for faculty, who could consult one group for online teaching support, rather than three or four different entities. The resulting endeavor led to a website FAQ and consulting email address that is accessible to all faculty to provide focused and timely technology and education assistance to faculty.

Connecting Classrooms, Clinicians, and Community Clinics Through Technology (C4Tech) for Active and Collaborative Learning.

PURPOSE: This pilot study investigated the level of cognition that physician assistant (PA) students achieved through adoption of an innovative blended learning model that connects the classroom, clinicians, and community clinics through electronic-learning (e-learning) technologies (C4Tech) used in a PA course. This education intervention aimed to facilitate authentic learning collaborations between PA students and practicing clinicians that would result in higher-order cognition related to the manifestations of social determinants of health and health disparities. METHODS: A case study approach was adopted to assess levels of cognition and changes in those levels resulting from application of an innovative blended learning model. Content analysis using Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive domains facilitated determination levels of cognition and changes in those levels. The sample of 8 groups comprised 70 PA students and 8 clinical instructors from community clinics with underrepresented patient populations. RESULTS: Analysis of 2 course assignments revealed that application of the C4Tech model yields high levels of cognition. By the course's end, all 8 groups achieved at least the "evaluate" level of cognition and half of the groups achieved the highest level of cognition, the "create" level. A wide variation in the level of cognition was demonstrated between the first and second assignments in each group and among groups. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that e-learning technologies can be effective in blending classrooms and work environments for authentic and collaborative learning. Adoption of the C4Tech model yielded higher-order cognition related to course content.

Reimagining Physician Assistant Education.

The physician assistant (PA) profession has successfully flourished for over 50 years, demand for graduates remains strong, and there is a wealth of research on the quality of care that PA graduates provide. Nevertheless, health care and education are constantly changing, and we must change with them. We must continually scan the horizon and consider how best to adapt to current issues like the clinical sites crisis, as well as evolutions in technology, pedagogy, and in our students themselves. The Physician Assistant Education Association Presidents Commission, a group of past presidents, sought to stimulate a conversation on "reimagining PA education" through the lens of advances in our knowledge of the neuroscience of learning and changes in technology, including simulation, and a broader focus on innovation and "thinking outside the box." Through interviews with PA faculty and leaders, we provide some examples of areas of innovation in education, especially on the possibilities presented by a more flexible approach to innovation from the accreditation body than many PA faculty might perceive. One initial conclusion is that PA educators should focus more on helping students to "think like clinicians" from the start of their education. This paper is primarily intended to stimulate dialog, and we encourage all PA educators to form-and more importantly, share-their own thoughts and questions, through the PAEA professional learning communities and Digital Learning Hub (PAEAlearning.org/learn/digital-learning-hub/).

Distance Education Programs: The Technical Support to Be Successful.

Academic success requires support on a variety of levels as well as access to contemporary tools and services. Supporting students enrolled in a successful higher education distance learning program, requires a strong, properly trained IT support staff in addition to a stable IT environment. Our distance education program began with a regional market but has grown significantly over the past few years. This is primarily due to the success of our distance education tools and support which have contributed to achieving a ranking of eleventh of best graduate schools in nursing according to the U.S. News and World Report. The entire student population is "Bring Your Own Devices" (BYOD). Critical to this support is the initial configuration and loading of needed software during the first week of orientation. All of this success requires a robust team of members prepared in a range of skill sets from networking to instructional design.

The Rise and Stall of eLearning: Best Practices for Technology-Supported Education.

eLearning is a commonly used term in education today, but what does it mean? This article explores issues that nurse planners and administrators need to be aware of in planning how technology-based education is most effectively delivered.

[Simulation technologies in anesthesiology, resuscitation and intensive care: state of the problem].

The foundation of simulation technologies application in educational process is presented in the article. It is described difficulties during anesthesiologists-resuscitators training and education of physicians of not intensive care specialty in intensive care methods. It was emphasized that new innovative educational stage is formed at present time. It is simulation stage between preclinical and clinical stages. Theoretical foundation and practical evidence of efficiency of simulation training are expressed in detail.

Beyond knowledge and skills: the use of a Delphi study to develop a technology-mediated teaching strategy.

BACKGROUND: While there is evidence to suggest that teaching practices in clinical education should include activities that more accurately reflect the real world, many educators base their teaching on transmission models that encourage the rote learning of knowledge and technical skills. Technology-mediated instruction may facilitate the development of professional attributes that go beyond "having" knowledge and skills, but there is limited evidence for how to integrate technology into these innovative teaching approaches. METHODS: This study used a modified Delphi method to help identify the professional attributes of capable practitioners, the approaches to teaching that may facilitate the development of these attributes, and finally, how technology could be integrated with those teaching strategies in order to develop capable practitioners. Open-ended questions were used to gather data from three different expert panels, and results were thematically analysed. RESULTS: Clinical educators should not view knowledge, skills and attitudes as a set of products of learning, but rather as a set of attributes that are developed during a learning process. Participants highlighted the importance of continuing personal and professional development that emphasised the role of values and emotional response to the clinical context. To develop these attributes, clinical educators should use teaching activities that are learner-centred, interactive, integrated, reflective and that promote engagement. When technology-mediated teaching activities are considered, they should promote the discussion of clinical encounters, facilitate the sharing of resources and experiences, encourage reflection on the learning process and be used to access content outside the classroom. In addition, educational outcomes must drive the integration of technology into teaching practice, rather than the features of the technology. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need for a cultural change in clinical education, in which those involved with the professional training of healthcare professionals perceive teaching as more than the transmission of knowledge and technical skills. Process-oriented teaching practices that integrate technology as part of a carefully designed curriculum may have the potential to facilitate the development of capable healthcare graduates who are able to navigate the complexity of health systems and patient management in ways that go beyond the application of knowledge and skills.

Blended versus lecture learning: outcomes for staff development.

Critical care pharmacology education is crucial to safe patient care for nurses orienting to specialized areas. Although traditionally taught as a classroom lecture, it is important to consider effectiveness of alternative methods for education. This study provided experimentally derived evidence regarding effectiveness of blended versus traditional lecture for critical care pharmacology education. Regardless of learner demographics, the findings determined no significant differences in cognitive learning outcomes or learner satisfaction between blended versus lecture formats.

Implementing a competency-based electronic portfolio in a graduate nursing program.

Use of electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) has been advocated to demonstrate nursing student accomplishments as well as to document program and course outcomes. This use of e-portfolios incorporates information technology, thus aligning the educational process in professional degree programs to 21st-century teaching and learning scholarship. Here we describe a project to explore the feasibility of transitioning from documenting student competencies in hard-copy binders to e-portfolios. To make this transition in an efficient manner in our graduate nursing program, we used the Plan, Do, Study, Act quality-improvement model. An interdisciplinary team of nursing faculty and educational computing consultants developed a professional e-portfolio template and implemented a pilot program for 10 students enrolled in our nurse educator specialty. This program was executed by assessing university resources, evaluating the technological competence of both students and faculty, and through the interdisciplinary team members' commitment to provide ongoing support for the program.

Virtual learning environments: second life.

In this bimonthly series, the authors examine how nurse educators can use the Internet and Web-based computer technologies such as search, communication, collaborative writing tools; social networking and social bookmarking sites; virtual worlds; and Web-based teaching and learning programs. The editor of this column and her coauthor describes how the virtual world of Second Life can be used in nursing education.

Using technology to engage and educate youth.

Given that information age technologies are as natural to the Net generation as breathing, it is time to provide learning experiences that maximize their use in schools. The authors argue that integrating technology into learning is central to creating the meaningful learning opportunities needed to engage and motivate youth today. To achieve this potential, however, technology must support a new paradigm of teaching and learning. This chapter discusses common elements and challenges to implementing pioneering high school reform models that promote one-to-one student-computer ratios, collaborative learning environments, problem- and project-based instruction, and interdisciplinary teaching.

Los recursos educativos abiertos y la protección del derecho de autor / The open educational resources and the copyright protection

Con la aparición y masificación del uso de Internet surgieron los Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) como una forma ventajosa de utilizar las tecnologías de la información las comunicaciones en función de la docencia. En este escenario y como consecuencia del desarrollo social, surge el movimiento de recursos educativos abiertos. En este trabajo se exponen las principales características de los REA y la protección del derecho de autor con las licencias Creative Commons en los materiales creados para la docencia. Asimismo se argumentan las implicaciones que tiene para los docentes el uso de los diferentes términos de las licencias.

With the appearance and mass use of the Internet arised the Open Educational Recourses (OER) as an advantageous way of use of information and communications technologies depending the teaching. In present setting and as a consequence of the social development, raise the OERs. The aim of this paper is to expose the major features of the OERs and the copyrights protection with the Creative Commons permissions in the materials created for teaching. As well, the use of the different permissions terms and the implications for professors are alleged.

A hybrid integrated services digital network-internet protocol solution for resident education.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of incorporating Web-based application sharing of virtual medical simulation software within a multipoint video teleconference (VTC) as a training tool in graduate medical education. MATERIALS AND METHODS: National Capital Consortium Radiation Oncology Residency Program resident and attending physicians participated in dosimetry teaching sessions held via VTC using Acrobat Connect application sharing. Residents at remote locations could take turns designing radiation treatments using standard three-dimensional planning software, whereas instructors gave immediate feedback and demonstrated proper techniques. Immediately after each dosimetry lesson, residents were asked to complete a survey that evaluated the effectiveness of the session. At the end of a 3-month trial of using Adobe Connect, residents completed a final survey that compared this teaching technology to the prior VTC-alone method. RESULTS: The mean difference from equality across all quality measures from the weekly survey was 0.8, where 0 indicated neither enhanced nor detracted from the learning experience and 1 indicated a minor enhancement in the learning experience. The mean difference from equality across all measures from the final survey comparing use of application sharing with VTC to VTC alone was 1.5, where 1 indicated slightly better and 2 indicated a somewhat better experience. CONCLUSIONS: The teaching efficacy of multipoint VTC is perceived by medical residents to be more effective when complemented by application-sharing software such as Adobe Acrobat Connect.