ReHIn
TransCoCon ERASMUS+ project focused on enhancing cultural awareness and promotion of transcultural competence in the professional context of nursing and healthcare. It created 5 Reusable Learning objects aiming for ‘Transcultural Collaboration and Competence in Nursing’. Partner Institutions were from UK, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland.
The educational material for Healthcare professionals were the following 5 RLOs with complementary video presentations:
Those focused on social learning2, situated learning3 and experiential learning4 are particularly relevant to vocational training. Three learning theories in particular provide a strong foundation for digital learning design. These are Carver’s instantiation of experiential learning5, Wenger’s community of practice6, and Mayer’s multimedia learning theory7,8 (Wharrad et al 2022))
2. Bandura, A. (1977). Social learning theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
3. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) Situated Learning. Legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press
4. Rogers, C. (1994). Freedom to learn (3rd ed.). New York:Merrill
5. Carver R. Theory for practice: a framework for thinking about experiential education. Journal of Experiential Education 1996;19:8-13.
6. Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052143017
7. Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2003). E-learning and the Science of Instruction. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
8. Mayer, R. E. (Ed.). (2005). The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Heather Wharrad, Richard Windle, Michael Taylor, Chapter Three - Designing digital education and training for health, In S. Konstantinidis, et al, Digital Innovations in Healthcare Education and Training, Academic Press,
2021, Pages 31-45, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813144-2.00003-9.
Digital learning incorporated in healthcare curriculum. RLOs developed following the ASPIRE process.
Resources evaluated as useful and effective by the participants. Including stakeholders in the development process was the key to create impactful resources.