MeduProf-S Academy

Meduprof-S Academy uses the open source Moodle e-learning platform in order to provide and support sustainable education for health education in Africa. Improvements are being developed continuously by the Moodle community. Every now and then a new release of Moodle becomes available. After testing a new release Meduprof-S usually implements the new release.

Normally the teachers and students who use Meduprof-S Academy won’t notice anything except improvements and new possibilities. The upcoming release of Moodle however abandons support for some very old browsers.

Check your browser before June 1st!
The release is announced for June 1st. As from that date the new minimum browser requirements are: Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 8, Safari 5. A survey shows that 9,4 percent of the browsers used in Africa are older than required. You can verify your browser by selecting help and then about firefox or extra and then about internet explorer.

You can download your free most recent browser for free. Choose Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari.

Several MeduProf-S e-learning sites are now integrated on this MeduProf-S Academy website. If you have any questions about this site or your account please send an e-mail to rob@doms.nl.

From 4-8 July the final e-Learning workshop was conducted at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) in Nairobi. The overall objective was to set up the e-Learning content for the current curriculla of the Medical Imaging Sciences, Nursing and Medical Engineering Departments. With the support of Mr. Rob Doms from MeduProf-S, eight teachers from these departments took part in the workshop and succeeded in achieving this goal.

Before enabling e-Learning, Meduprof-S conducted curriculum development training for the Medical Imaging Sciences, Nursing and Medical Engineering Departments. The improved curriculum development skills were put into practice during the e-Learning workshop.

In the long term, e-Learning will help KMTC economise on scarce facilities and improve student support and learning whilst the students are conducting their practical training outside KMTC in the rural hospitals and clinics. With e-Learning, students can take part in distance learning guided at their own pace by their teachers; students can also interact with each other and the teacher whilst not being in a classroom together.

The first students to use the e-Learning facility will start during the next semester. Following this the departments involved in the workshop will present a plan to disseminate e-Learning to other departments.

Whilst internet bandwidth is still a problem in Kenya, it is expected that capacity will soon improve as the use of internet is rapidly growing and thus creating business opportunities for Internet Service Providers.