KE6 Solution Design: NutritionGood nutrition for health

Professor Alan Jackson, Professor Martin Wiseman, Dr Steve Wootton24th March 2011

Contents• KE6 Solution design

• Nutrition project: goals, requirements and process

• Nutrition eLearning solution

• Evaluation

• Questions

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KE6 Solution design• Have you defined your problems/needs?

• What is your goal to achieve?

• What requirements does your solution need to meet?

• Is your solution appropriate for the identified problem and requirements?

• Is your solution appropriate for your target audience?

• Is your solution appropriate for the environment where it is going to be used?

• How will you design your solution?

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Nutrition project: Goals• Audience: undergraduate medical students,

primarily Southampton but usable by others

• Set medical curriculum: national and local requirements

• Known nutrition curriculum – national (Intercollegiate Group on Nutrition/AoMRC)

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Nutrition project: Goals• To transfer knowledge and understanding of core

principles of nutrition for safe and competent medical practice

• To serve as a platform for spiral learning

• To transfer a limited number of core skills and competencies

• To be embedded within the existing medical curriculum

• To be integrated into medical practice

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Nutrition project: Requirements• To develop consistent and standardised materials

for current and future health professionals;

• To cater for the different needs of health practitioners by providing individualised (customised) learning experience;

• To broaden educational opportunities for the healthcare workforce by integrating nutrition knowledge and competencies from different healthcare perspectives.

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Nutrition solution: Process• Map nutrition curriculum

– Identify core learning needs– Appropriate for stage of learning

• Develop specific learning outcomes

• Develop new content, adapt existing

• Use content experts

• Build on experience

• Customise and contextualise the contents – “As a doctor, you will need to be able to….”

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Nutrition eLearning solution• Nutrition portal

– User profile captured and used for tailored learning

• Content design

– Customised for different user groups

– Reflective learning

• Delivery

– Blended

– Cohort & self-direct

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Nutrition portal

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Nutrition portal

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Nutrition portal

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Nutrition portal

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Course module structure

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Interactive learning materials

(Unit)

Interactive learning materials

(Unit)

Unit assessment

Unit assessment

Recommended next course

Recommended next course

Module Assessment

Module Assessment

Module Pre-

assessment

Module Pre-

assessment

Approach to learning design• Engaging

• Interactive

• Personalised learning

• Reflection

• Cognitive dialogue

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Learning design: Key features• Contextualised/individualised examples

• Interactive tasks

• Narrative

• Graphical presentation

• Individualised feedback

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Nutrition community

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• Adults

• Children

Nutrition community

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Solution: nutrition community - Doris

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• Age: 75 years

• Ulna length: 23.7cm (height 1.56m)

• Weight: 44.0kg

• Waist circumference: 70.5cm

• Hip circumference: 85.1cm

• MUAC: 21.6cm

• BMI: 18.1m/kg2

• Ethnicity: White British

• Occupation: pensioner

• Marital status: widowed with 1 daughter (Carol)

• Other info: Doris is fond of a boiled egg

• Appearances: C001 and C002

Solution: nutrition community - Jack

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• Age: 3 years 3 months

• Sex: male

• Height: 85.0cm (<3rd c)

• Weight: 10.0kg (5th c)

• MUAC: N/A

• Weight –for-length: -2 SD (< 3rd centile)

• BMI for age: 13.8m/kg2 (<3rd c)

• Country: UK

• Other info: Jack’s father is a widower and struggles with parenting. Has a sister, called Mary

• Appearances: C001, C003

Solution: Contextualised interactive tasks

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Course 2 for Pharmacy

Course 1 for Medicine

Solution: Interactive animation & activity

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How it works

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Evaluation• Feasibility in principle

• Accessibility and functionality in practice

• Efficacy

• Effectiveness

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Conclusion• Imaginative and interactive solution

• Comprehensive curriculum coverage

• Applicability across diverse disciplines

• Feasibility, functionality and effectiveness to be tested

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Conclusion• Imaginative and interactive solution

• Comprehensive curriculum coverage

• Applicability across diverse disciplines

• Feasibility, functionality and effectiveness to be tested

• Questions…?

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