Educational Technologies for Physician Continuous Professional Development

Continuous Professional Development for Midwives

The South African government implemented a compulsory one year community service strategy to address the shortage of human resources in the health sector since 1998. Medical practitioners (1999), dentists (2000) and pharmacists (2001) and other seven professional groups followed in 2003 and in July 2004. The nursing profession followed after the Health Minister’s announcement, the processing of...

Customizing Educational Technology Professional Development

professional development can be designed in many different ways. ETPD varies by general purposes and goals, specific learning objectives, curriculum content, student grade levels for which the strategies and tools presented are appropriate, professional development models used, how it is matched to participating teachers’ characteristics, and the ways in which it is evaluated. Providers can ens...

The Use of Information Communication Technologies for Staff Continuous Professional Development in Organizations. The case study

The purpose of this research is to identify and compare the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Staff Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in a community of education and business organizations and prepare recommendations for more efficient staff CPD using ICT. Obviously ICT use for CPD helps to overcome traditional barriers, such as lack of financial resources, time, e...

Keeping my professional development continuous

Enhancing educational effectiveness through teachers’ professional development

generalisable knowledge Situation-specific knowledge