Does a path to improved patient experience lie through the use of technology? This is a question on my mind after reading Liberti and Triberati’s (2014) article Patient-centered virtual reality: an opportunity to improve the quality of patient’s experience. How does this hyped-up new technology link to developing improvements in the care of patients through consideration of their needs and values? There is considerable evidence...
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The RRU MALAT Program journey has brought our cohort to course LRNT 526, Inquiry into Contemporary Issues in Learning Technologies. In this course, we will be using the practice of critical inquiry to explore a learning technology through the lens of a specific learning experience and a further, deeper dive into a subsection of the use of that technology. I have joined Jeff Clemens, Alastair Linds, and Anita Fahrenbruch to form...
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Through the readings we encountered in LRNT 524: Innovation, Design and Learning Environments, I can say with great honesty that I was pleasantly surprised to encounter themes of empathy in innovative learning design practices. In particular, Vann’s (2017) phenomenological study of how empathy impacted strategy decisions made by instructional designers for the instruction of adult learners, was refreshing and...
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LRNT 524 has engaged us in readings that reflect on the meaning of innovation. Innovation is a word without a clear definition. Skillicorn’s (2016) blog post demonstrates the diversity in opinion around the meaning of innovation and guides our reflections on what innovation means to each of us. Some definitions of innovation that I connected with in Skillicorn’s (2016) article: Gijs van Wulfen: “An innovation is a...
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