Contemporary education increasingly involves a blended learning environment, which consists of a combination of offline and online delivery methods. Blended learning environments can motivate students to learn, but designing motivating blended learning environments is challenging and can result in environments that demotivate students. This conceptual article proposes a blended learning design that helps practitioners to design motivating blended learning environments. According to self-determination theory, students are motivated to learn when their three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are supported. Competency-based education (CBE) is intended to support students’ basic psychological needs. We have constructed design guidance for CBE programmes that help practitioners to design a combination of offline and online delivery methods that (1) give students choices in time and place to support their need for autonomy, (2) adapt to students’ competency levels to support their need for competence, and (3) stimulate students’ relationship building with peers and teachers to support their need for relatedness. Although the design guidance is tentative, practitioners can experiment with it to design blended learning environments that motivate students to learn.
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The paradigm of collaborative health care delivery drove the development of interprofessional competency frameworks (ICFs). The Train4Health project, funded by the Erasmus+ program, aims to improve healthcare students’ competencies in behaviour change support to optimize self-care in chronic diseases. As part of this project, we surveyed the landscape of ICFs in health. Our aim was to characterize ICFs in health and its translation into learning outcomes embedded in academic curricula. An integrative review was conducted between March and September 2020 based on a predefined protocol. The search was performed in EBSCO, B-On, Scopus, Web of Science and Joanna Briggs Institute databases. Four articles were eligible, describing ICFs in different domains in health, such as digital healthcare environment, simulation and genetic healthcare. Generally, ICFs were planned and developed by a committee. Students were involved in all four ICFs. These frameworks supported the development of learning outcomes-based curricula, organized in a tiered or straightforward structure, with different learning outcomes depending on their complexity and specialization level. Despite the overlap in some areas across health professions, we found only four ICFs that can guide collaborative education and are linked to learning outcomes. Pursuing this integrated approach, ideally resorting to structured scientific methods, may facilitate competencies attainment and merits further attention.
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Background: Globalisation trends such as increased migration to andwithin European countries have led to even greater cultural diversityin European societies. Cultural diversity increases the demand ofcultural competency amongst professionals entering their workfield. In particular, healthcare professionals need knowledge and skillsto equip them to work with clients from different cultural backgrounds.Within higher education (HE), the professional developmentof cultural competency should ideally feature in undergraduate educationand is often promoted as a by-product of a study abroadperiod. However, recognising that logistical and financial barriersoften exist for extended study abroad, one alternative approachcould be participation, at home or abroad, in a short-term internationalprogramme set within students’ own HE institutions.Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore HE students’ experiencesof participating in international ‘short-term mobility week’programmes at three European universities.Methods: Each university involved in the research offered short termprogrammes for healthcare professions students at their owninstitution, where both local students and students from abroadcould participate. Participants were healthcare students in theprogramme at one of the three universities. Data were collectedthrough focus group interviews (4–8 students per group; n = 25).The data were transcribed and then analysed qualitatively, usinga content comparison method.Results: The analysis identified six categories, which reflectedstudents’ journeys within the short-term international experiences.Conclusions: The analysis suggested that, for these students,engagement in a short-term mobility week programme providedvaluable opportunities for encounters with others, which contributedto personal and professional development, greater confidencein the students’ own professional identities, as well as anincreasing sense of cultural awareness.
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Naast kennis en vaardigheden draait professionaliteit om bewustwording van de persoonlijke waarden die professionele besluitvorming beïnvloeden. Inzicht in persoonlijke waarden is bepalend voor de kwaliteit van het professionele handelen. Praktijkgericht en biografisch onderzoekt leidt tot ondersteuning van dit bewustwordingsproces. Doel Het doel van dit onderzoek is om de persoonlijke drijfveren van studenten en beroepskrachten boven water te krijgen. We ontwikkelen daarvoor verschillende instrumenten die bijdragen om de dieperliggende motivaties te articuleren en bewust te maken. De focus is gericht op de morele bewustwording als onderdeel van de persoonlijke levensoriëntatie. We ontwikkelen bruikbare instrumenten om de normen en waarden van studenten en beroepskrachten in kaart te brengen en te analyseren. We ontwikkelen tools en werkvormen die studenten en beroepskrachten ondersteunen in hun zelfreflectie en hun normatieve professionalisering. Resultaten Resultaat is een narratief-biografisch onderzoeksinstrument dat aan elke studierichting aangepast kan worden. Het is een instrument dat gedurende de hele studie als voortgaande relfectie ingezet kan worden. Daarnaast heeft onderzoek in enkele analyse-instrumenten voorzien die bijdragen aan een verdiept inzicht in de onderliggende motivaties van studenten en beroepskrachten voor hun professioneel handelen. We onderscheiden zeven typologieën van studenten die studieloopbaanbegeleiders helpen effectief af te stemmen op de student om haar/zijn waarden en normen expliciet te maken. Voortgaand onderzoek en projecten leiden momenteel tot een variëteit aan didactische werkvormen, reflectietools die vaak onbewuste waardenoriëntatie bespreekbaar maken en in dialoog brengen. Theoretische onderbouwing is beschreven in het proefschrift Van der Zande, E. (2018). Life Orientation for Professionals. A Narrative Inquiry into Morality and Dialogical Competency in Professionalisation. Almere: Parthenon. Looptijd 20 november 2019 - 01 december 2023 Aanpak Dit project valt uiteen in diverse deelprojecten: - Leraar, waar sta je voor? - Didactische integratie van het narratief zelfportret in het leerteamleren
Naast kennis en vaardigheden draait professionaliteit om bewustwording van de persoonlijke waarden die professionele besluitvorming beïnvloeden. Inzicht in persoonlijke waarden is bepalend voor de kwaliteit van het professionele handelen. Praktijkgericht en biografisch onderzoekt leidt tot ondersteuning van dit bewustwordingsproces.
