New Educational Strategies for Training Information Professionals: Building Awareness, Concepts, and Skills through Learning Technologies

• DOI: 10.2307/40324191
• Publication Date: 2010-11-08T19:12:38Z
• Authors: MaryEllen C. Sievert; Diane Tobin Johnson; Teresa Hartman; Timothy B. Patrick
• Keywords: Occupational training

Libraries, Medical Informatics, and Health Care was an experimental distance-education course aimed at both health sciences other librarians graduate students. The included three modalities for delivering instruction: a satellite broadcast, materials on the Internet, intensive seminar. teleconference focused two topics, consumer care information telemedicine relation of each to librarianship. Internet-based covered U.S. delivery system, language medicine, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), MEDLINE. seminar resources, biomedical community, trends in librarianship, medical informat-ics. Each modality presented opportunities challenges instructional team Evaluations revealed that participants were generally favorable about experience but there more problems with Internet section than sections.