Online Courses in Sakai@MD Anderson

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Most of the course sites in Sakai@MD Anderson are for instructor-led courses, like those offered by the School of Health Professions. A growing number, though, are self-paced online courses. The most common format so far is straightforward: a series of recorded presentations often with picture-in-picture of the speaker. The Breast Cancer Course, part of the Professional Oncology Education series is an example. You can take this course without the need to enroll. Other courses in the series require enrollment and some offer continuing  medical education credit for a modest fee.

Like many online courses, the breast cancer course required moderately high production effort and a team of specialists to develop. The team included the subject matter experts/presenters, graphics specialists to refine the slides, audio/video recording specialists, web page developers, text editors, a transcriptionist and a project coordinator in addition to the Sakai support team.

Not every project can afford this level of production. We also support a do-it-yourself tool, TechSmith's Camtasia Relay, for rapid development of onscreen lecture presentations.  Some of our programs are also working with instructional developers on more interactive approaches based on medical case study models. We'll have more information about Relay and the case studies in future posts. 

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