Mobile/Electronic Learning

Opportunities and experiences from www.kenyamedicine.info

Tradition Vs The Future

• The “soma kwa bidii” motto has always elicited the traditional book pen and board mental picture.• These tools are increasingly being sidelined• Medical school is full of evidence to this effect• UpToDate® is probably the ‘go to’ resource than Harrisons textbook• The institutions are mostly stuck with the traditional systems• However there is progression towards eLearning

Where is the rest of the world?

• Thousands of eLearning sites available online• Complete with issuance of certificates at the end of study

• Coursera• Partners with top universities

• Duke, Edinburg, Stanford, Berkeley etc• High quality courses offered

• Harvard Online Schools• School of Public Health, Medicine• https://www.edx.org/

In Kenya…

Motivation for eLearning at Moi University• Google Android for Good Project• Received more than 1,300 Android Nexus 7 Tablets• To be distributed to faculty, students and clinicians at Moi University, MTRH

and AMPATH• Main use will be to deliver

• medical content to students• HIV and other chronic diseases content to clinicians at Ampath and other peripheral sites• CMEs for faculty

• Need for content to be contextualized to our setting

• Upcoming Institute of Biomedical Informatics• Masters and PhD programs in health informatics

Kenya Medicine eLearning portal

The portal

• Portal based on Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment)• Easy to modify and install• It is modular allowing installations of a choice of plugins• We implemented 18 modules that enabled the following

functionalities• Lessons, Wikis, Forums, Quiz, Surveys, Files etc.

• Implemented a mobile application• Available for Android, iOS, Windows

The portal

• Currently includes the following content:• Kenya clinical guidelines• MTRH medicine ward handbook• Chronic disease modules (HTN & DM)• AMPATH ART guidelines• Internal Medicine

• Outlined comprehensive content for 600+ topics• Health Informatics

• All content access is logged

Modules

• Lessons• Linear set of instructional material following a set path• Can include questions in the path - this may determine if a student proceeds

to the next page or is taken to another pathway altogether

• Quizes• multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical• Question shuffling and random selection• Setting of time limits• Automatic marking• hints, feedback and correct answers

Modules..

• Survey• Assignments• Submission of documents, spreadsheets, images, or audio and video clips.• Submission individually or as a member of a group• Automatic emails once feedback is available• Automatic grading

• Chats• Enable online meeting of students, student-teachers• Question – answer insterraction with a tutor/invited speaker

Modules…

• Forum• asynchronous discussions i.e. discussions that take place over an extended

period of time.• Restriction rules• Peer evaluation & grading

• Wikis• Students can collaborate on building wiki resource (e.g. as part of a project)• Versions for each page kept and versioning system• Personal journal for students – e.g. revision for exams

The Result

• Collaborative and curated content across institutions• Moi University, AMPATH, FACES, MTRH• Possibilities of CMEs administered through KMA/Board

• The 1,300+ tablets will provide offline content access from the portal to several students, faculty and clinicians• Self paced learning

• Make kenyamedicine.info a one stop shop for everyone to access Kenya specific medical content, guidelines and institution specific publications

Thank you…