ABOUT THE COURSE
Teaching with Technology is an online course for health professionals interested in learning more about how to use technology in their teaching. It focuses on the background, theory, and practical application of educational technologies in health professional education.
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Through this course you will explore different types of technology, through a lens of instructional design and pedagogical principles and online professionalism considerations such as privacy and copyright while developing a comfort level in using educational technologies.
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By the end of this course, you will be able to demonstrate proficient teaching in using synchronous teaching (such as zoom), build a video, website, and infographic, and explore in depth at least one other educational technology tool or concept of interest.
This fully online accredited certificate course (39 hours) is set to launch in Feb- June 2021
(Approx workload 2.5-3 hrs/wk over 15 weeks)
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Objectives
By the end of this certificate course, learners will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a comfort level with using various teaching technologies within the course (zoom, padlet, twitter, infographics, video, and website creation) and knowledge of other mediums and software available.
2. Analyze/evaluate the advantages and disadvantages (opportunities and limitations) of different types of technology and appropriately select different modalities to meet specific learning objectives
3. Debate issues around online privacy, copyright, and instructional design principles
4. Research and teach about a technology enhanced tool or concept through Zoom
5. Apply and adapt educational frameworks and theories for online healthcare education
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What will you learn?
Copyright, privacy, digital professionalism, netiquette & ethics
Assynchronous Learning- video, text & collaborative learning
Social Media, mlearning and apps
Instructional Design: websites, video creation and emodules
Online Theory and curicullum design
Synchronous Online Learning/online facilitation & webinars
OVERVIEW OF ONLINE LEARNING
Pros/cons, types, privacy, copyright and professionalism
SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING AND WEBINARS
This course will provide a framework from which to consider categories of educational technologies and considerations of when and how to best use different modalities. It will also explore the importance and practical relevance of issues such as privacy, copyright, assessment and professionalism and how they need to be considered in an online enviroment
In this course you will consider the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous online learning as well as how to effectively create, facillitate and execute live virtual events. Learners will become comfortable in using Zoom software and presenting a group presentation in this format. Other software such as Adobe Connect, Blackboard Collaborate, etc will also be touched upon.
CONTENT CREATION
Blogs/wikis, video creation and emodules
Learners will build a website, infographic and a video, as part of their culminating group presentation. Learners will also be introduced to other software to build emodules, and virtual patients, however, practical know how of this software is beyond the time limits of this course. Learners may choose to build emodules or virtual patients as a separate supervised course.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND COLLABORATIVE ONLINE LEARNING
Twitter, and Slack
Learners will explore social media such as Twitter and other apps to communicate, collaborate, disseminate and discuss concepts asynchronously. See for example #EdtechHPE19 #EdtechHPE20.

COURSE DATES/ COST 2021
Introduction to Edutech HPE - Feb/Mar-June 2021 (4 mon)
Accredited certificate of 40 hrs learning
$2850
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Advanced Certificate Edutech HPE- TBD 2022
COURSE INSTRUCTORS

HEATHER MACNEILL
Heather has been creating and researching the effect of educational technologies in healthcare over the past decade and has been teaching EduTech HPE graduate course at University of Toronto since it's inception in 2014. She is Faculty lead, Educational Technologies in the Faculty of Medicine, Office of Continuing Professional Development. She is the recipient of the Fred Fallis and Fox award for her work in the area of elearning, with a particular focus in the area of online collaboration. As a practicing physician at Sinai Health System in Toronto.

KATARYNA NEMETHY
Kataryna Nemethy is an eLearning Developer and Instructional Designer at Baycrest Health Sciences with over 10 years experience in the field of eLearning, instructional design and educational technologies. As a graduate of Biomedical Sciences at University of Toronto, she is passionate about the interface between education, technology and design. She continues to freelance as an instructional designer, eLearning developer and medical illustrator/animator.

TAMARA BAHR
Tamara Bahr is a Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Academic and Collaborative Technologies for the University of Toronto. She has been involved with teaching, learning and technology for health professions education for over a decade. Tamara recently entered PhD candidacy with the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto where her research lays at the intersection of healthcare professions, education, and technology.
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