Teaching illustrations - Medical Terminology course
A range of teaching examples support this analysis (some of which are illustrated in the section below) including the teaching of medical terminology (reading and speaking), cross-cultural courses with students from around the world (Abu Dabi and the Gippsland area) and media training.
"If we take for example "Medical Terminology" which is a programme which has been incredibly successful for us here. Where the reality is, the students need to be able to not only read medical terms, they need to be able to say medical terms. Trying to do that in a text environment is impossible, you need to have the voice interaction. Now we did offer that in a solely text environment but what we had to do was have several phone conferences with students and have one-on-one phone conferences with students. So that was quite difficult, not only because the phone is synchronous, which means that forces us into trying to make a time with the student to do that. Being able to use the asynchronous Voice Boards not actually only eliminated all of the costs associated with telephone calls and phone conferences, but it also meant that the teacher and the student were freed up to participate at any time of the day and still be able to interact in voice. |
Hear Brad Beach talk about the business impact and these three examples in depth here (5 mins): Browse an example Medical Terminology Voice Board from an actual GippsTAFE here course here: Click Here to launch the example Voice Board "Medical Terminology"Browse an example from the course taught with a middle east link up - a Voice Board from an actual GippsTAFE course on services for people with disabilities (involving Abu Dhabi and Gippsland students learning together) here: Launch Voice Board |
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