Symposium how health professionals can contribute to social resilience, health and wellbeing through leadership in Digital Health:

Using online training tools to improve social cohesion among health professionals: Experience from DHIS2 training

:

Dr Pandula SiribaddanaMBBS, Ph.D, Pg. Dip MedED

Lecturer in Medical EducationPostgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo

Outline

• Overview of DHIS2• Learning in communities• Importance of communities from a

development point of view• Facilitating the cultivation of CoPs using online

learning tools: Experience from the Health Information Systems Program (HISP), Oslo.

A ‘community of practice’

Health Information

Patient care Laboratory

PharmacyOrganizational setting

e.g. Health care setting, Health program

Community of Practice (CoP)

At times of training

Training instances

Work practice Work

practice

Work practiceOrganizational

setting e.g. Health care setting,

Health program

Community of Practice (CoP)

Sustainable development goals (SDGs)

HISP experience in building online communities

Community of Practice (CoP)

Online learning

Face to face workshop

Learning Groups

Invited for next DHIS online learning instance

Emergence of a virtual learning community

Face to face workshop

Face to face workshop

Face to face workshop

Face to face workshop

Implementers

Managers

Super users

Collaborators

Trainers

Developers

Users

Cultivating CoPs using online training tools

Training model for integrated blended learning

Conceptual framework for integrating different components of blended learning

Goal Focus areas Implementation choices

Linking formal and informal learning

Comfort zones Linking learning with practice

Connectivism Enabling link and network building

Expression style Facilitating different expression styles

ParticipationContextual awareness Participation of local experts, adopting use cases from the context

and context specific discussions

Globalness Adopting use cases from similar contexts elsewhere in the region or globe and facilitating participants from the global community.

Sense of community

Common interest Group sessions and discussion threads relating to common practices

Identity formation

Create networking opportunities with project owners, facilitate participation in live projects and utilizing moderators with similar background to the students as role models.

Cliquing Recognize cliques and facilitate its functioning and enable formed cliques to express themselves to others

Approach to cultivating CoPs using blended learning

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