Using educational technology to reach a wider audience for healthcare technology management
| Published | May 2008 |
| Conference | International Seminar on Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Developing Countries (AHT 2008), 21-22 May 2008 |
ABSTRACT
We discuss a collaboration between Health Partners International, HEART and the Open University (OpenLearn) to develop a short open access course for the purpose of improving policy making and practice in healthcare technology in developing countries.| Keywords | re-purposing · developing countries · healthcare · educational technology · OERs · Open Educational Resources |
| Published at | London |
| Language | eng |
| ISSN | 978 0 86341 916 4 |
| Rights | 2008 Institution of Engineering and Technology |
| DOI | 10.1049/ic:20080586 |
| URL | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/23911 |
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