| Year: 2006 | 
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| LHNCBC-2006-034 |
| A Blended Training Approach Using Videoconferencing for Distance Education |
| Locatis C, Gaines C, Liu W, Gill MJ, Carney J, Foster J, McCall V, Woods M |
| Journal of the Medical Library Association, October 2006, 94(4):464-8 |
| In 2004, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) recognized the need to expand its outreach activities to minority students. To meet this objective, NLM sponsored a program presenting information on varied health sciences topics to minority students interested in health sciences careers. An existing initiative, NLM's Adopt-A-School program, provided an initial foundation for this project. As part of the Adopt-ASchool program, NLM staff provide training at a nearby school site, and students make field trips to the library. In addition, summer work opportunities are provided for some students. To explore the feasibility of providing a more flexible variant of this program that would extend the training component to more distant schools, NLM partnered with King Drew Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles to deliver a distance learning program via synchronous videoconferencing and collaboration technologies. This brief describes approaches used in and preliminary evaluation of the training. |
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