ERI

ERI: Distance Education Resources

The goal of the Oregon Health Sciences University medical informatics distance learning

program is to educate individuals in the application of information technology (IT) to health

care. Graduates of the program may take on additional IT responsibilities in their existing

careers or embark on new careers as developers and managers of health care IT systems.

URL:http://www.ohsu.edu/bicc-informatics/distance/

The site provides a wide range of information about distance education and related

resources. This comprehensive and widely recognized site brings together distance

education information from Wisconsin, national, and international sources. New information

and resources are being added to the Distance Education Clearinghouse on a continuing

basis. URL:http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

This is a demo version of Dxplain, a decision support system which uses a set of clinical findings

(signs, symptoms, laboratory data) to produce a ranked list of diagnoses which might explain

(or be associated with) the clinical manifestations. Dxplain provides justification for why each

of these diseases might be considered, suggests what further clinical information would be

useful to collect for each disease, and lists what clinical manifestations, if any, would be unusual

or atypical for each of the specific diseases. Dxplain does not offer definitive medical consultation

and should not be used as a substitute for physician diagnostic decision making.

URL: http://www.lcs.mgh.harvard.edu/

The National Education Association (NEA) and Blackboard have developed an important,

research-driven list of quality benchmarks for distance learning in higher education. The

list of 24 quality measures is the centerpiece of "Quality On the Line" -- an Institute for

Higher Education Policy study commissioned by NEA and Blackboard Inc.

URL:http://www.ihep.com/Projects.php?parm=Projects/Blackboard.html

The ICDL is an international centre for research, teaching, consultancy, information and publishing

activities. ICDL databases contain information on over 31,000 distance learning programmes and

courses, over 1,000 institutions, and over 11,000 abstracts of books, journal articles, research

reports and other types of literature. URL:http://icdl.open.ac.uk/

Dozens of links to internet resources for faculty development, graphics, course materials,

URL:http://www.cde.psu.edu/users/atb/main.htm

VIPS is a novel software tool for automated continuing medical education (CME) operating on

the Internet and in isolated environments. Designed by a Swiss expert physician in CME and

medical informatics, VIPS is the result of a collaborative effort of database engineers, software

developers and a medical webmaster.

URL: http://www.swissvips.ch/