Six façons de mettre à profit l’expertise des professionnels en technopédagogie

We underutilize the knowledge and skills of Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) professionals, despite the frequent challenges in implementing learning technologies in medical education. This is largely due to a lack of understanding among stakeholders regarding the expertise of IDT professionals and their role in technology implementation processes. We seek to improve technology implementation outcomes by explaining the IDT field’s foundational tenets of a systems perspective and disciplined approach, clarifying the role that IDT professionals can play in educational technology initiatives, and providing guidance on how to foster productive collaborations in pursuit of effective technology-enhanced learning.Bien que souvent confrontés aux défis de la mise en oeuvre des technologies éducatives en éducation médicale, nous sous-utilisons les connaissances et les compétences technopédagogues. Cela est largement dû à un manque de compréhension, chez les parties prenantes, de l’expertise de ces professionnels et de leur rôle dans les processus de mise en œuvre des technologies. Dans le but d’améliorer les impacts de la mise en œuvre des technologies, nous expliquons les principes fondamentaux de la technopédagogie, à savoir une perspective systémique et une approche rigoureuse, tout en clarifiant le rôle que les technopédagogues peuvent jouer dans les initiatives technologiques éducatives. Nous proposons également des conseils sur la manière de favoriser des collaborations productives en vue d’un apprentissage efficace optimisé par les technologies

Navigating and Building Capacity for Educational Research: An Interactive Website to Ensure Smooth Sailing

As seasoned educational researchers, we were trained in how to carry out a research project. However, for health professionals whose primary responsibility is to care for patients, many have not been explicitly taught the steps involved in launching and supporting educational research projects. The lack of opportunity to learn this process is a barrier to clinicians interested in engaging in educational research. In an effort to build capacity for health sciences educational research at Augusta University, the Educational Innovation Institute developed an interactive website that serves as a “one-stop shop” for assisting with this process. The website was designed with a nautical theme, complete with informational buoys that mark specific points in the process. In an interactive manner, users “sail” between the buoys and learn about different stages in the research process from idea formation to dissemination. In this presentation, we demonstrate the website’s major features, addressing how our institution has moved to support educational research, and discuss our future plans for evaluating the website’s use. This presentation would be particularly useful to all departments and institutions interested in developing their own strategy to support faculty and students with educational research