Martine Koopman, Sector Developer ICT in Education

IICD, Netherlands

E-Learning at the Presbytarian Nursing College Bawku

Ghana

IICD is active in four sectors

Economic Development

Water & ClimateHealth

Education

• Presbytarian Nursing College was part of larger program: Connect 4Change: ICT4Health with IICD, Cordaid and CHAG. Start 2012

• eLearning pilot in Bawku (located in a resource deprived and conflict prone area which is nearly 300km from the nearest teaching hospital of Tamale)

• At start: low teaching capacity, low ICT infrastructure, manual data management, library with almost no resources

Success factor: Focus on educational change, not delivering technology only

The project process

• 2011: Round table process and Solution Design workshop

• 2012: implementation phase: equip and training in basic ICT

• End 2012: Computer lab and servers burned down

• 2013: re-installation of system, training of teachers, start using School Management Information System and eLearning environment

• 2014: Content Creation, evaluation of pilot

• 2015: scale up to 3 other nurse training colleges

• improved tutor classroom delivery of relevant material through the use of e-learning

• enhanced student learning by accessibility to up-to-date learning material

• increased efficiency of collecting, managing and communicating appropriate information within and without the institution

Outcome

Current status

• Teachers and students are trained• Only a few teachers fully utilize the system: content creation takes

time to become part of teacher preparation and delivery• Administration system for student admission, academic affairs,

invoicing and billing in use• eLibrary utilized by teachers and students, but eLearning system not

yet

eLearning platform

School Administration Management System

Challenges

• Motivation of teachers to create new content

• Wifi is not working outside classrooms (difficult for preparation)

• No accounting component and current finance system is old

• Change in leadership

Challenges

• Facility Readiness Assessment is conducted in 4 Nursing Colleges:• Holy Family NTC Berekum• Holy Family NTC Nkakaw• NTC Offinso• NTC Kwadaso

• Implementation January 2015

• Joint development e-Learning modules and supplementary content creation

Way forward

Elearning in medical education

• Online renewal of licenses for Nurses in Malawi

• Digital Curriculum General Counsel of Nurses Zambia

• Distance education: CERTES: e-Health Expertise Centre, Mali

• eLearning and Telemedicine Radiology: iPath web-based user-friendly portal

Malawi –electronic Continuous Professional Development

• Need to renew their licence every year to continue their practice.

• Up until 2012, had to take 8 exams a year, in person, at the hospital.

• Had to invest time and money in extensive travel.

• Faced a shortage of study materials.

Nurses and Midwives in Malawi

3 MONTHS TO

SECURE 55%

OF CREDITS

What we learnt

Needs identification is

critical

High costs vs. sustainability

High value for nurses and midwives

Mobile phones might help

achieving scale

Broad stakeholder engagement for

adaptation

SUCCESS FACTORS

FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS

Questions?