
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hartley, Ross 
A1  - Mills, Melissa 
A1  - Cupitt, Margaret 
T1  - A case study in mainstreaming flexible learning in health - perspectives from the bush
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 2004
VL  - 27
IS  - 1
SP  - 131
EP  - 133
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH042710131 
N2  - Our mission is to inculcate an ethos of online learning and communicating, moving it from the margins tomainstream. A skilled health workforce is crucial to better practices. Face-to-face teaching still dominates learningacross NSW Health, despite remarkable developments worldwide in using technology for learning. Health is slow toembrace this renaissance due partly to lack of exposure among educators and learners, and the fact of course thatlearning is not its core business. The three staff comprising New England Area Health Service (NEAHS) LearningServices extensively researched NEAHS staff attitudes to flexible learning (2001) and Information Technology skills(2003). Amalgamating these data, with that from the first ever across-NSW Health online course we ran (2002)determined the appropriateness of our decision to instigate an external web-based discussion facility, previously notavailable in health,for supporting learning and for communicating within NEAHS and indeed across Area HealthServices (AHS). 
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