Solving technology problems, one at a time
I’ve been developing various xAPI projects using the ADL wrapper, which is a framework for making calls to the LRS. It became obvious early on that I needed a way to generate and test more
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I work in a small learning management department in a large Health System. One of the “forever” problems we’d like to solve, is how to get out of the way of our many clinical subject matter experts and make it EASY for them to put trackable learning content online by themselves. Why is this still a problem in this age of online applications? Simply put: cost, learning curve and trackability.
Licensing costs in a decentralized environment
Software license costs are a big issue in a distributed authoring environment, particularly for departments that watch every penny. There are hundreds of potential authors out there, mostly in departments that do not prioritize the purchase of elearning software. Licenses for the big elearning software packages (Articulate, Storyline, Lectora, etc.) are not inexpensive, even with academic discounts and whatever site-licenses may exist.
The field of Healthcare today is filled with opportunities for improvement. Inconsistent treatment, preventable illness, and medical errors that result in injury are all too common, along with enormous inefficiency and waste.
The Institute of Medicine, the medical arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is leading an initiative that descibes a better organizing principle for healthcare – a “Learning Healthcare System.” A learning healthcare system is simply one that continuously “Learns,” meaning that healthcare data from many sources, including electronic medical records is turned into guidelines and knowledge and that knowledge is swiftly translated into practice so that all clinical decisions and processes are based on the best available and most current evidence. New knowledge is in turn generated in the course of practice, and the cycle continues, fostering continuous improvement at all levels: national, organizational, unit, team and individual.
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