Transforming Delivery Beth McEwan RACGP – CPD Coordinator

Transforming Delivery

Beth McEwan

RACGP – CPD Coordinator

Transforming Delivery

Shifting the learning “space” from a traditional face to face learning environment to an online learning environment

Look to ADULT LEARNING PRINCIPLES to give us the “clues” to develop online modules

Transforming DeliveryRoyal Australian College of General Practitioners

– largest professional general practice organisation representing urban and rural GPs

– mission: to improve health & wellbeing for all Australians• includes supporting and developing appropriate professional development

opportunities

Royal Lifesaving Society of WA– to prevent the loss of life & promote safe participation in water-related

activities

Transforming Delivery

GPs are adult learners too!

Our mandate to RLSSWA – create a learning space that is:– exciting– imaginative– reinforces current learning

Transforming Delivery

Adult Learning Principles– Clue – Relevance

• ensure content matches past or future experiences

– Clue – Problem-based• identify learner’s needs

Develop learning objectives to match needs

Transforming Delivery

Adult Learning Principles– Clue - Actively involve the learner

“tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I might remember, involve me and I’ll understand”

– Clue – Multi-sensory

Transforming Delivery

Adult Learning Principles

– Clue – Timely• online modules suit time-poor professionals

• easy access to learning

• convenience!

Transforming DeliveryAdult Learning Principles

– Clue – practise new skills/apply new knowledge

Connecting with our peers

– allows for “rich” learning to occur when adults interact with one another

• online forums/chat; or

• blended model

Transforming Delivery

Online learning for baby boomers too!– ease of use– easy to navigate

Learning preferences– visual – e.g. graphics– auditory – e.g. audio streaming– kinaesthetic – e.g. interactive segments

Transforming Delivery

Traditional learning offered face to face can work in an online environment

Look out for the clues offered by adult learning principles

THANK YOU!