The provision of education and training for health care professionals through the medium of the Internet

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 135-144

  Beer, Martin ^a   Green, Sharon ^a   Armitt, Gillian ^a   van Bruggen, Johanna ^b   Daniels, Ramon ^b   Ghyselen, Ludo ^c   Sandqvist, Jan ^d   Sixsmith, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of International Cooperation   (Netherlands)

^c Hogeschool West   (Belgium)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Continuous professional development; Distance learning; Health care; Problem based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986131368     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740210438829     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Applet, W. and Mambrey, P. (1999), “Experiences with the BSCW Shared Workspace System as the backbone of a virtual learning environment for students”, Proceedings of EdMedia’99, Seattle, Washington, DC, pp 1710-15.
2. Boud, D. (1988), Developing Student Autonomy in Learning, 2nd ed., Kogan Page, London.
3. College of Occupational Therapists (2000), Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Occupational Therapists, London.
4. Cullen, K. and Robinson, S. (1997), Telecommunications for Older People and Disabled People in Europe, IOS Press, Amsterdam.
5. Davis, M. and Harden, R. (1999), “AMEE Medical Education Guide No. 15: Problem-based learning: a practical guide”, Medical Teacher, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 130-9.
6. Department of Health (1989), Caring for People: Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond, HMSO, London.
7. Department of Health (1997), The New NHS: Modern Dependable, HMSO, London.
8. Department of Health (1998), Partnership in Action: New Opportunities for Working, HMSO, London.
9. European Commission (1995), Horizontal European Activities in Rehabilitation Technology: Condensed Report, DGX111, Brussels.
10. Gibbs, G., Skinner, C. and Teal, A. (1999), “coMentor: a collaborative learning environment on the WWW for philosophy and social theory students”, available at: www.hud.ac.uk/comentor
11. Green, S. (1997), “Information technology in occupational therapy: an undergraduate curriculum which both leads and reflects practice”, in Rust, C. and Gibbs, G. (Eds), Improving Student Learning Through Course Design, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford, pp. 389-400.
12. Hagedorn, R. (1992), Occupational Therapy: Foundations for Practice, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
13. Rada, R, (1998), “Virtual education manifesto: where are we going technologically and marketwise”, in Ottmann, T. and Tomek, I. (Eds), ED-Media and ED Telecom’98: 10th World Conference on Educational Media and Hypermedia and World Conference on Educational Telecommunications, Freiburg, 20-25 June, pp. 1107-12.
14. Sixsmith, A., Green, S. and Willis, M. (1998), “Therapists and enabling technologies: knowledge and attitudes”, British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, Vol. 5 No. 7, pp. 344-55.
15. Townsend, E. (Ed.) (1997), Enabling Occupation: An Occupational Therapy Perspective, Ontario Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, Ottawa, p. 30.
16. Whatley, J., Staniford, G., Beer, M. and Scown, P. (1999), “Intelligent agents to support students working in groups online”, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Special Issue on Intelligent Agents for Educational Computer-Aided Systems, Vol. 10 Nos 3/4, pp. 361-73.