ADDIE is an acronym for Assessment, Design, Developm, Implement and Evaluate. to start the ball rolling on course development using the ADDIE model, I will give a brief update of the program, the rationale for establishing the course and anticipated challenges.
The course is targetted for the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students who aree on 4 months internship in primary health care hospital settings around the country. Students are ussually sents to facilities in pairs or triads under direct supervison of a Nurse practitioner or medical officer to provide primary care to clients, learn certain procedures such as ear syringing and suturing, conduct office laboratory tests and interpret dignostic tests.
The program is designed to equip registered nurses with advanced skills in clinical assessment. diagnosis and pharmacologic and non pharmacologic management of clients across all age groups (Child, adult and elderly/older adult) in primary care setting. The program is offered over a period of four semesters. The fourth semester, which is 4 months long, is dedicated for intership and 1 week seminar.
Once students are on internship, group interaction is only 5 days for their entire 4 months intership period, and interaction with faculty at the internship site is at most 3 days/student. This mimimum interactions is often frustrating to students more so that they are sent to areas with limited learning resources. Students often feel isolated, overwhelmed by the clinical requirement and frustrated when they fail to find someone to help them with unanswered clininal encounters
The purpose for introducing this course is to create an environment similar to a classroom setting where students and faculty can interact regularly, share expereinces, learn from each other or get regular updates on new patient care developments. The course will be designed specifically to create an avenue for addressing issues raised by students in their reflective diaries.
Video tapped procedures such as suturing, ear-synging, office laboratory testing procedures will also be posted to guide students .
Topics for discussions will be guided by the course plans for the three courses offered in semester 3 ( The semseter three courses are MANAGEMENT OF CHILD, MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG AND OLDER ADULT, AND SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH).
There will be no formal assessment of the course as the approach is to augment to clinical teaching that has already been ongoing. I take it that the areas discussed in the webseminar will be assessed autimatically in the planned final examination and preceptor assessment. However, I am thinking of awarding a credit for regular participation in the discussion, and a mark for that may be added to the case study assignment marks.
The proposed webseminar course is anticipated to have challeges, as some facilities have no regular internet.
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Hi Monty
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an interesting project. Have you considered mobile applications as opposed to internet/computer based discussions? If regular internet access is not available to all the students, I am not sure how you are going to address the exculsion of those students? Maybe in your analysis, you can see what the other options are besides the internet for discussions.
It does make sense though and I know from a recent presentation at the SOTL conference and other presentations that these things do work,it's just a matter of figuring out which tool is the beest one to use.
Good luck.
Including some form of assessment is crucial (I think). Espcially if it is a new thing students have to do - they might need some motivation (albeit of the "stick" kind).
ReplyDeleteBecause of the breadth of your idea (resources, communication, discussion, assessment) a learning management system, or at least a site that incorporates all of this, is probably called for, although I agree fully with Physiokeiller above to place a strong emphasis on Mobile learning.
There currently is a move/ pilot project towards using Moodle as SU's Nursing Department for some postgrad modules. This might be something you could draw on/ blend in with. Moodle gives the ease of publishing resources, and assessing, with the added advantage that it is easier to access with a web-enabled cell phone.
Your audience analysis will be very important. Might be usefulto find out what technology your prospective students have/ know about. This will make your design and implementation so much easier.
Good luck
Hi Keiller and Dr Bosman,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your advises. I had thought of using mobile initially, but had second thoughts when I thought that the doc could probably be bulky to be accessed on a mobile. I will consider that for those who who have problem with regular access of the internet. Another alternative will be encourage them to use internet cafe. Regarding the assessment,I will see how I can encorporate it in my course.
my students have recived a module on the use of computer and internet and we have all along been commuincating by emails for classroom assigments
Design:
ReplyDeleteThe second step in course development is the Design stage. This stage is comprised of developing clear learning objectives and learning outcomes or competencies to be achieved. The learning objectives create an easy framework for the development of modes of assessment. Therefore the objectives for this course would be three fold:
1. To provide a caring and supportive environment and resources to students who are on internship
2. To create an avenue for students to collaborate with each other and integrate concepts learned in classroom and practice areas
3. To provide an equip students with competencies in problem solving skills of complex primary care cases and provide guidance to students on issues that they find challenging in their clinical set up
Emphasis will be placed the development of diagnostic reasoning skills, that enables them to formulate differential diagnosis and come up with appropriate and comprehensive history taking, physical examination, diagnostic investigation and therapeutic interventions.
The specific objectives for the course are as follows:
By the end of 15weeks (internship), student will be able to:
i. Correlate history, Physical examination, diagnostic interventions to generate differential and specific diagnosis on challenging cases encountered on internship
ii. Design a comprehensive management plan of challenging cases based on established diagnosis
iii. Report high level of support (emotional + resource) from the adopted e-learning teaching strategy
iv. Demonstrate commitment to lifelong learning and teamwork by participating regularly on e learning discussions
Designing outcomes:
The student assessment will be in the form of course evaluation which will be computer based. Another form computer based assessment will be testing of knowledge acquired during the discussion. A sample of computer based quiz has been uploaded to the web for students to view. I am currently working on the format to ensure that the quiz is automatically graded. Student will also be awarded a grade for participating in the discussion, which will add to the final assessment grade.
Mode of assessment:
Computer based quizzes X 3: 20% each =60%
Participating in at least10 of the 12 cases = 40%
Course evaluation Nomark:
Develop
ReplyDeleteThe third stage is comprised off facilitating learning and establishing classroom logistics.
Facilitating Learning:
During this stage the course designer is expected to identify instructional strategies. These strategies are often guided by the facilitators’ understanding that student have different learning styles and that there are different models for e-learning that determine selection of the e-learning strategy. For example, a learning style that requires for participatory and interactive approach (collaboration or constructivist models) would require the use of strategies such as google docs, google-groups, blogs, wikis etc.
The appropriate strategy for my project is the one that allows for interactive, collaborative, non threatening discussion. Since cases would be generated from student’s reflective diaries, students would be advised to submit their diaries directly to my email, so that I can select interesting cases and removes students’ names before posting it for other students to comment.
I have selected the use of google groups for our discussion as it easily accessible, free of charge and very easy to set up without the need for specialized software. The google groups also allow for informal conversational style and students often participate in threaded discussions on topic of interest. The threaded discussion will be done through emails or through the web, whatever approach that the students find convenient at a given time. Interaction with googlegroups is usually asynchronous, and kind of self paced as students will be expected to respond at their own pace but within a given period of 5 weeks. The learning model here is reflective and knowledge base.
Classroom Logistics :
Students would be expected to participate at own pace and to use evidence based information during their discussions. Bibliography of at least one article would be required for any clinical care recommendations.
Implementation
This step is where by the facilitator puts the lesson into practice. The lesson delivery takes into account the course objectives, user friendliness of teaching strategies and clarity of the course. With reference to my course, I have decided pilot the course with the current group. Invitations have been sent to students requesting them to email some clinical cases that they would like to be posted for discussion.
Information about the course, drafted computer based quiz and reflective diary template has been posted motivate the students to participate.
This course will be evaluated with the next coming group.
Evaluation:
The last step of ADDIE model is the evaluation. This steps looks into student’s reactions to the course and facilitators. Evaluation on this part looks into whether students valued the course/ facilitations or not. A course evaluation will be developed for this particular activity.
The next form of evaluation is establishing whether there was knowledge acquisition or not. This is often done in the form of formative or summative assessment. A computer based quiz has been developed assess knowledge gained. The use of reflective diary would also be used to assess whether cases that were discussed previously have surface again in the discussions.
Develop
ReplyDeleteThe third stage is comprised off facilitating learning and establishing classroom logistics.
Facilitating Learning:
During this stage the course designer is expected to identify instructional strategies. These strategies are often guided by the facilitators’ understanding that student have different learning styles and that there are different models for e-learning that determine selection of the e-learning strategy. For example, a learning style that requires for participatory and interactive approach (collaboration or constructivist models) would require the use of strategies such as google docs, google-groups, blogs, wikis etc.
The appropriate strategy for my project is the one that allows for interactive, collaborative, non threatening discussion. Since cases would be generated from student’s reflective diaries, students would be advised to submit their diaries directly to my email, so that I can select interesting cases and removes students’ names before posting it for other students to comment.
I have selected the use of google groups for our discussion as it easily accessible, free of charge and very easy to set up without the need for specialized software. The google groups also allow for informal conversational style and students often participate in threaded discussions on topic of interest. The threaded discussion will be done through emails or through the web, whatever approach that the students find convenient at a given time. Interaction with googlegroups is usually asynchronous, and kind of self paced as students will be expected to respond at their own pace but within a given period of 5 weeks. The learning model here is reflective and knowledge base.
Classroom Logistics :
Students would be expected to participate at own pace and to use evidence based information during their discussions. Bibliography of at least one article would be required for any clinical care recommendations.
Implementation
This step is where by the facilitator puts the lesson into practice. The lesson delivery takes into account the course objectives, user friendliness of teaching strategies and clarity of the course. With reference to my course, I have decided pilot the course with the current group. Invitations have been sent to students requesting them to email some clinical cases that they would like to be posted for discussion.
Information about the course, drafted computer based quiz and reflective diary template has been posted motivate the students to participate.
This course will be evaluated with the next coming group.
Evaluation:
The last step of ADDIE model is the evaluation. This steps looks into student’s reactions to the course and facilitators. Evaluation on this part looks into whether students valued the course/ facilitations or not. A course evaluation will be developed for this particular activity.
The next form of evaluation is establishing whether there was knowledge acquisition or not. This is often done in the form of formative or summative assessment. A computer based quiz has been developed assess knowledge gained. The use of reflective diary would also be used to assess whether cases that were discussed previously have surface again in the discussions.
Develop
ReplyDeleteThe third stage is comprised off facilitating learning and establishing classroom logistics.
Facilitating Learning:
During this stage the course designer is expected to identify instructional strategies. These strategies are often guided by the facilitators’ understanding that student have different learning styles and that there are different models for e-learning that determine selection of the e-learning strategy. For example, a learning style that requires for participatory and interactive approach (collaboration or constructivist models) would require the use of strategies such as google docs, google-groups, blogs, wikis etc.
The appropriate strategy for my project is the one that allows for interactive, collaborative, non threatening discussion. Since cases would be generated from student’s reflective diaries, students would be advised to submit their diaries directly to my email, so that I can select interesting cases and removes students’ names before posting it for other students to comment.
I have selected the use of google groups for our discussion as it easily accessible, free of charge and very easy to set up without the need for specialized software. The google groups also allow for informal conversational style and students often participate in threaded discussions on topic of interest. The threaded discussion will be done through emails or through the web, whatever approach that the students find convenient at a given time. Interaction with googlegroups is usually asynchronous, and kind of self paced as students will be expected to respond at their own pace but within a given period of 5 weeks. The learning model here is reflective and knowledge base.
Classroom Logistics :
Students would be expected to participate at own pace and to use evidence based information during their discussions. Bibliography of at least one article would be required for any clinical care recommendations.
Implementation
This step is where by the facilitator puts the lesson into practice. The lesson delivery takes into account the course objectives, user friendliness of teaching strategies and clarity of the course. With reference to my course, I have decided pilot the course with the current group. Invitations have been sent to students requesting them to email some clinical cases that they would like to be posted for discussion.
Information about the course, drafted computer based quiz and reflective diary template has been posted motivate the students to participate.
This course will be evaluated with the next coming group.
Evaluation:
The last step of ADDIE model is the evaluation. This steps looks into student’s reactions to the course and facilitators. Evaluation on this part looks into whether students valued the course/ facilitations or not. A course evaluation will be developed for this particular activity.
The next form of evaluation is establishing whether there was knowledge acquisition or not. This is often done in the form of formative or summative assessment. A computer based quiz has been developed assess knowledge gained. The use of reflective diary would also be used to assess whether cases that were discussed previously have surface again in the discussions.
I would first like to take this opportunity to commend the module facilitators for inspiring some of us to enroll in the module. The February presentation allayed the technophobia that some of us had in the past. Your advocacy approach made the module appear interesting and easy to sail thru, that is what made me enroll.
ReplyDeleteEnrolling in the module, was an eye opener to me, because I had no idea that the techno-world was friendly even to novices like myself. I had no idea that there was a lot of free staff \out there that I can use to enhance student learning or to augment my teaching strategy.
I may have not mastered the module yet, but it’s a giant step for me. It is the beginning of my long trip into the TECH-community
Thanks dr Bosman for providing us with guidance and informative literature and thanks \to my classmates for your wonderful contribution to my project. I am sorry for not making any fruitful contribution to your project too, its because I was battling with trying to understand each teaching strategy out there on the web.
Check me on the web in future you will see how I am surviving in the IT world. Believe me, the technophobia I used to have is all gone. I now belong to the IT community. I will be browsing the web until such time that I feel confident
I now know how my department and school can benefit from the free information that is lying out there in the space.
May God Bless you MPHSE 2010
What a nice post Monty, glad to red these words. We will definitely be looking out for your presence in the online space. Hopefully within the next few years, all our problems with not enough access and bandwidth to the internet will be something of the past.
ReplyDeletePlease continue this blog to improve your "technophilia" and then we can track your progress or journey.