INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT

Penick, T. 2007. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT: An Interdisciplinary Online Course in Health Care Informatics. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education 2007; 71 (3) Article 43.
This is an article about an online course of health care informatics design by the University of North Carolina. They strive to develop an online interdisciplinary course in health care informatics. The provision of this course was to incorporate and provide students the require tools for them to incorporate the technology to find effective evidence based health care information.  This was provided as an online interdisciplinary online course elective. The method of teaching was through interactive and multimedia lectures using Internet communication software. It was concluded that this teaching method was effecting in teaching students about health informatics.  The students when completed the online course in health informatics the students demonstrated their competencies in identifying and applying informatics in health care settings.

If you would like to read about this study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1913289/