Digital Innovations in Healthcare Education and Training discusses and debates the contemporary knowledge on the evolution of digital education, learning and the web and its integration and role within modern healthcare education and training. The book encompasses topics such as healthcare and medical education theories and methodologies, social learning as a formal and informal digital innovation, and the role of semantics in digital education. In addition, it examines how simulation, serious games, and virtual patients change learnings in healthcare, and how learning analytics and big data in healthcare education leads to personalized learning. Online pedagogy principles and applications, participatory educational design and educational technology as health intervention are bridged together to complement this collaborative effort. This book is a valuable resource for a broad audience, both technical and non-technical, including healthcare and medical tutors, health professionals, clinicians, web scientists, engineers, computer scientists and any other relevant professional interested in using and creating digital innovations for healthcare education and training. Provides contemporary knowledge on the evolution of learning technologies and the web and its integration and role within modern healthcare education and training Discusses the latest digital innovation in healthcare education and training, thus enabling all type of readers to apply best practices Encompasses a cross-theme, scholarly explanation based on successful cases which provides a deep knowledge experience into digital innovation in healthcare education and training

This book is dedicated to the current trends and new challenges that have emerged from the new e-learning environment, focusing on its potential to revolutionize Healthcare Education and exploring how it may help to better prepare future healthcare professionals for their daily practice. "E-learning and Digital Training in Healthcare Education: Current Trends and New Challenges" contains several research articles focused on new insights into the use of interactive and intuitive e-learning tools and innovative teaching methodologies that engage healthcare students in the new web-based environment training. It also includes several case studies of 'pathfinder' e-learning initiatives and surveys related to the penetration and acceptance of digital training in Healthcare Education.

A basic guide to getting the best from e-learning for medical students, teachers and all healthcare professionals With undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, and continuing medical education increasingly delivered and supported by electronic means, it is vital that both learners and teachers develop the specific skills that are essential to successful e-learning. Based on the expert author team’s experience in e-learning, this concise guide is accessible to any novice and with examples of technology in use it supplies a basic grounding in using technology to learn, teach, and conduct research. How to Succeed at e-Learning answers the needs of all healthcare professionals either starting or continuing their studies but not knowing where to begin with e-learning. It is a valuable guide for learners in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine as well as related health professionals and essential for teachers of medicine who are beginning to transfer from print to electronic teaching and need to understand effective methods of presentation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training (eLEOT 2014) held in Bethesda, MD, USA, in September 2014. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and focus topics such as web based tools, augmented reality, mobile learning, teaching frameworks and platforms, virtual learning environments.

Assessing learning in an online environment is being used by teachers and institutions at an increasing rate. This text provides practical guidance on various aspects of online assessment including - types of assessment, choosing the right software, and examples of e-assessments over a wide-variety of disciplines.