LAMS and Quality Use of Medicines QUM

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LAMS and Quality Use of Medicines(QUM)
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Brief Overview of NPS

• The National Prescribing Service provides
• Accurate, balanced, evidence-based information
  about medicines

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What is QUM?

• The key focus of QUM is to ensure that
• Management options are selected wisely
• Suitable medicines are chosen if medicine is
  considered necessary
• Medicines are used safely and effectively
• so that consumers get the best possible
  health outcomes

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Structure of f2f vs online training
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Learner profile

• Undergraduate and postgraduate medical, nursing
  and pharmacy students
• Healthcare consumers, their carers and the
  general community
• Health practitioners and health educators
• The medicines industry
• NPS staff

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Our site
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Module 1
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Module 2
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LAMS as an activity within Moodle
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LAMS opens in a new window
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Why use LAMS?

• Activity based
• Connected/networked learners
• Provides excellent learner and teacher scaffolding

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50 activities inside LAMS
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Active vs passive consumption
George Siemens Content - in classrooms,
newspapers, or mainstream media - is intended to
be consumed, passively, by the end
user. Content today should not be something to
be consumed, but rather, something to be
discussed. Content is not an end itself, but a
means to forming connections with others.
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Connected/networked learners

• Moore (1989) described three types of
  interactions necessary for effective distance
  education
• learner to content
• leaner to learner
• learner to instructor

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QA
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Structured environment as a scaffold

• Why minimally guided instruction does not
  work an analysis of the failure of
  Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-based,
  Experiential and Inquiry based learning.
• Kirschner, Sweller and Clark 2006 Educational
  Psychologist 41 (1)

The goal of instruction is rarely to search for
or discover information. The goal is to give
learners specific guidance about how to
cognitively manipulate information in ways that
are consistent with a learning goal, and store
the result in long term memory.
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Structured environment as a scaffold

• LAMS provides excellent scaffolding especially
  for self-paced learners in distance education
  mode.
• LAMS helps vs hinders teachers adopt e-learning
• LAMS is logical
• LAMS breaks content up into more manageable
  chunks.

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Benefits of QUM conversion

• Activity based learners can now actively
  manipulate resources
• Access to multiple perspectives across industries
• Sense of being connected to other users
• Learners have control over how many activities
  they do
• Access to authentic activities and materials
• More integrated approach learners can access
  anytime, anywhere
• Resources broken up into more usable sections
  learners can choose which bits they do in this
  sense a collectivist approach.

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Other great aspects of LAMS and Moodle

• Massive community support network
• Re-usability
• Excellent reporting and student tracking systems

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Integrations issues

• To the student, the integration seems seamless
  but..
• The two systems have different navigation
• Two systems are different conceptually (for both
  learner and teacher)
• Tools act in different ways and look different
  eg forums
• Grouping issues (to be fixed shortly)
• Re-running Moodle does not mean re-running LAMS
• Exporting and importing Moodle or LAMS does not
  include the other
• Have to look at two separate reporting systems

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Constructivist Learning Environments

• Jonassen, D. http//www.coe.missouri.edu/jonassen
  /courses/CLE/