Thanks for the comment! I agree with you—ensuring that the training works truly is the key. There are multiple lines of evidence showing that it’s entirely possible to create effective online training for health workers—all of the technology exists. There’s more to be said on this than can be covered well in one comment, but here are some thoughts.
There’s plenty of research demonstrating that online learning can increase knowledge and clinical skills of HWs living in LMICs (and other research demonstrating the same in high income countries).
Keep in mind that in-service HWs are working adults—they have greater motivations and capacities for self-regulated learning than they did when they were students, particularly when that learning is directly applicable to their work.
All that said, there’s much work to do in terms of developing better trainings, evaluating them, and measuring their impacts on clinical practices and public health outcomes!
Thanks for the comment! I agree with you—ensuring that the training works truly is the key. There are multiple lines of evidence showing that it’s entirely possible to create effective online training for health workers—all of the technology exists. There’s more to be said on this than can be covered well in one comment, but here are some thoughts.
It’s critical to have an understanding of why most online learning doesn’t work well and deliberately design better solutions based upon that understanding.
There’s plenty of research demonstrating that online learning can increase knowledge and clinical skills of HWs living in LMICs (and other research demonstrating the same in high income countries).
Keep in mind that in-service HWs are working adults—they have greater motivations and capacities for self-regulated learning than they did when they were students, particularly when that learning is directly applicable to their work.
All that said, there’s much work to do in terms of developing better trainings, evaluating them, and measuring their impacts on clinical practices and public health outcomes!