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Conferences and Publications
 
Presentations of the developmental phase of the COIL project (on theory and practical applications of online IPE and the online build-a-case method) have been presented at the following conferences:
  • ITCH 2011 - Health Informatics: International Perspectives, Vancouver BC, 2011
  • IPE Ontario 2010, Ontario International Health Collaborative, Toronto, 2011
  • IPE Ontario 2010, Ontario International Health Collaborative, Toronto, 2010
  • 18th International HPH Conference, Manchester, UK, 2010
  • IPE Ontario 2009, Ontario International Health Collaborative, Toronto, 2009. 
  • International Conference on E-learning, Toronto, 2009 
  • University of Toronto 2009 Education Achievement Day, Toronto, 2009 
  • Collaborating Across Borders II, Halifax, 2009 
  • Wilson Centre Research Day, University of Toronto, 2008
 
Publications
  • The Community of Inquiry framework: a pertinent theory of online interprofessional education?
    MacNeill H, Reeves S, Hanna E  ABSTRACT: Many in the online learning field now promote the need for a social presence online, in addition to cognitive and teaching presence, in order to fully realize benefits of online learning. In this regard, two important concepts arise when adopting e-learning: community and collaboration. Within healthcare there has been a recent push towards interprofessional education (IPE). IPE is an approach in which health and social care professionals come together to learn “with, from and about each other”. In this chapter the authors discuss the background of healthcare IPE and online learning. They examine the potential benefits and limitations of both IPE and e-learning as well as issues related to combining these approaches. They will discuss the theory of ‘communities of inquiry’ and apply a modified version of it as a way to think about and create online IPE. Lastly, the authors introduce an ongoing innovative healthcare e-learning project in Canada that was based on this theory and has focused on bringing together both IPE and online learning using the “build-a-case” method.
  • Chapter in Interprofessional E-learning and Collaborative Work: Practices and Technologies.
    Ed. A Bromage, Clouder L, Gordon F, Thistlethwaite, J, IGI-Global  (Proposed publication date: Spring/Summer 2010)