TY - GEN
T1 - WebCT and anatomical pathology tutorials
AU - Masters, Ken
AU - Duffield, Maureen
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - A challenge facing the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, is to compete with universities around the world, while dealing with developing countries' obstacles. In the second year of the medical curriculum, Anatomical Pathology plays a crucial role, and the shortage of trained staff threatened to damage the quality of education. Although Information Technology (IT) could be used to solve the problem, this would need to be performed within the restraints of available resources within a substantially poorer IT environment than is found in developed countries. This paper describes the processes involved in using the online teaching environment, WebCT, to resolve these problems. We detail the assumptions and decisions we made about students, resources, and choices regarding approaches and methods of content delivery. In addition, we describe the student usage patterns, evaluations, refinements, successes and failures. Finally, we end with the new knowledge that has taken us into the next year of implementation.
AB - A challenge facing the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, is to compete with universities around the world, while dealing with developing countries' obstacles. In the second year of the medical curriculum, Anatomical Pathology plays a crucial role, and the shortage of trained staff threatened to damage the quality of education. Although Information Technology (IT) could be used to solve the problem, this would need to be performed within the restraints of available resources within a substantially poorer IT environment than is found in developed countries. This paper describes the processes involved in using the online teaching environment, WebCT, to resolve these problems. We detail the assumptions and decisions we made about students, resources, and choices regarding approaches and methods of content delivery. In addition, we describe the student usage patterns, evaluations, refinements, successes and failures. Finally, we end with the new knowledge that has taken us into the next year of implementation.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICALT.2004.1357745
DO - 10.1109/ICALT.2004.1357745
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:13244268423
SN - 0769521819
SN - 9780769521817
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2004
SP - 1039
EP - 1043
BT - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2004
A2 - Kinshuk, null
A2 - Looi, C.-K.
A2 - Sutinen, E.
A2 - Sampson, D.
A2 - Aedo, I.
A2 - Uden, L.
A2 - Kaehkoenen, E.
T2 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2004
Y2 - 30 August 2004 through 1 September 2004
ER -