TRAINING WORKSHOP ON THE USE OF ADOBE FLASH FOR MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

Below are pictorial proceedings from a Two-Week workshop I facilated in the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana at the initiative of Dr. Paul Nsiah, Head, Department of Chemical Pathology, to train the school's IT technical staff on the use of Adobe Flash for developing illustrational materials for Medical Education. Mr. Kusi Acheampong, a lecturer in the school coordinated activities of the workshop.

I am indeed grateful to the dean of the school (Prof. Harold S. Amonoo-Kuofi, Dean, Head, Department of Anatomy) for his support to advance this course of capacity building for his I.T. Personnel. Ghana really need such leaders who are technologically inclined to motivate the advancement of New-Media Technology in education.

The enthusiasm of the participants was very encouraging, attracting other senior members in the school to join in the training as an attestation of the success of the workshop.

Resource Person Dr. Godfred Annum of KNUST


 
Workshop Location


Mr. Kusi Acheampong (Lecturer)
Workshop Coordinator




Instructor assisting participants

 

    













 

Dr Annum instructing his participants

 

DDR 2013 International Conference at Faculty of Art, KNUST Ghana

Hi folks

I have just come out of a hectic international conference of designers in development held in Ghana under the auspices of Design Development & Research 2013. I was the chairperson for the technical/equipment/finance sub-committee to handle equipments and covering of proceedings. I was also responsible for the meals of delegates which I presided excellently to the best of my ability. The caterer was very responsible.

As a New-media and Educational Technologist, I did a presentation on a paper titled “Running Distance Education in Studio-based Art Institutions; The Way Forward” to showcase my "MULTIBRID" technology for e learning and e documentation. I was also an exhibitor at the conference exhibition where a selection of my Digital Paintings were displayed for the viewing of the international community.

On the whole, the conference was very very successful.

STATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN GHANA

 

The question I keep asking distance-learning institutions in Ghana is “whether the state of distance education, especially in Ghanaian public tertiary institutions constitutes the ideal model as compared to those practiced in advanced countries?”

 

As an educational technologist with expertise for advancing the course of distance education, I get confused when a system that looks like sandwich education is packaged as distance education for public patronage and at very high cost. Distance education in modern pedagogical practice must be characterised by separation of GEOGRAPHIC SPACE and TIME and must most importantly use Information and Communication Technological (ICT) inputs to enhance student learning endeavours. Distance Education should provide flexible learning opportunities for the student. The infrastructure of virtual classrooms and the input of students instructional and learning materials is very very paramount.

Why create a continuous session of face-to-face learning situation for distance learners for more than two months and brand that as distance education. I don't think we are fostering a good course in the right direction. We need to adopt systems and employ them in their properly defined framework in order to derive the full benefit of the system.