Abstract
In this technologically advanced age, much emphasis is put on collaboration in education at many levels. As a result, faculty co-teaching (collaborative teaching) has grown dramatically. This paper introduces how two instructors from different countries (USA and Turkey), one experienced in online teaching and the other in medical informatics, collaborated successfully, to develop and teach an online medical informatics course. This study outlines effective strategies in co-teaching and student satisfaction with the course and includes various instructional techniques for cost effective technology for communicating at a distance.
Highlights
In education, collaboration has been desirable and valued as an important strategic concept
The Online Master's Degree in Education for Healthcare Professionals program was developed as a collaborative project of the University of Cincinnati College of Education (UCCOE) and the UC College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics based in the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC)
The decision to offer the course on medical informatics was made based on an informal needs assessment of the program participants and the availability of a talented academic expert (MS) in the Information Systems Office, Department of Medical Education at Hacettepe University in Turkey
Summary
Collaboration has been desirable and valued as an important strategic concept. New technologies have provided an exciting infrastructure for course delivery allowing accessibility to instruction unbound by time or space This has created a different educational environment for today’s educators to explore new frontiers to interact, collaborate, support, and empower teaching and learning. The two authors of this paper have accomplished a successful instructional collaboration through coteaching (collaborative teaching), which included on-the-job training of one of the instructors (MS) who had limited experience in online teaching and online pedagogy. Both medical informatics course instructors, each providing their own particular strengths and experiences, provided effective educational experiences to their learners, despite coming from different educational disciplines and working in different countries (U.S and Turkey). This paper describes our experience developing and co-teaching an online medical informatics course for an Online Master's Degree in Education for Healthcare Professionals program
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