Developing an eLearning strategy to implement medical competency based curricula: Experiences from Muhimbili university of health and allied sciences

2012 International Conference on Education and e-Learning Innovations, ICEELI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nagunwa, Thomas P ^a   Lwoga, Edda T ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science   (Tanzania)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

competency based curricula; continuing medical education; eLearning; eLearning policy; ICT infrastructure; internet; medical education; TUSK

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC STAFF; APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES; CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATIONS; E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGY; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ICT INFRASTRUCTURES; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFORMATION LITERACY; TANZANIA; TUSK;

CURRICULA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; E-LEARNING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84871784986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEELI.2012.6360589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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