USING DISTANCE EDUCATION FOR FAMILY AND PROVIDER TRAINING IN MANAGED CARE

 

Conference Call Providers

CONTACT Conference Calls http://contactcall.com/ is an audioconference provider founded on the principle that customer service is key to a successful business. Our goal is to present the expanding technology of audio and internet conference calls clearly and simply so our clients can use that technology to best serve their needs.  Making conference calls work for our clients is essential to our business success. For the last few years, the worldwide volume of audioconferencing has grown at a rate of over 30% per year. Many now consider the conference call indispensable as a tool to cut the costs of holding business meetings by reducing the need for travel.  If you are one of those who already knows exactly what you want for your next meeting, we have the services you need.  If you are new to conferencing or want to explore more sophisticated features or the newest internet technology, we will be happy to spend the time to help you find what you need.

Online Magazines

Online Learning Mag http://www.onlinelearningmag.com Recent article on making websites accessable for people with handicaps at http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/accessible/pub_resources.htm

ELearning http://www.elearningmag.com Recent article on profiles in elearning "where are we headed" at http://www.elearningmag.com/june01/profile.asp

OnlineLearning News http://www.vnulearning.com Email newsletter of tips, examples, links to resources

Syllabus http://www.syllabus.com Syllabus Magazine, read by more than 300,000 educators worldwide, includes feature articles, case studies, product reviews, and profiles of technology use at the instructor, departmental, and institutional levels.

Integrated E-Learning Solutions

eCollege http://www.ecollege.com partners with colleges, universities, K-12 school districts and corporate training organizations to design, build and support eLearning communities.

 

Click2learn http://www.click2learn.com/ Established in 1984 by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, Click2learn (NASDAQ: CLKS) has long been in the vanguard of the e-Learning movement. We are the only company in the e-Learning industry that has built a complete, end-to-end platform that fully integrates all of the key components needed to deploy a robust e-Learning solution: collaborative content development, personalization and learning management.

Professional Distance Learning Organizations

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD ) http://www.astd.org/
Founded in 1944, ASTD is the world's premier professional association and leading resource on workplace learning and performance issues. ASTD provides information, research, analysis and practical information derived from its own research, the knowledge and experience of its members, its conferences, expositions, seminars, publications and the coalitions and partnerships it has built through research and policy work.ASTD's membership includes more than 70,000 people, working in the field of workplace performance in 100 countries worldwide. Its leadership (see ASTD's Board of Directors) and members work in more than 15,000 multinational corporations, small and medium sized businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities.

ASTD offers information, research and analysis and acts as a clearinghouse and network for a wide range of topics, including:

  • Data on training expenditures
  • Intellectual capital
  • Link between training, learning, performance and productivity
  • Evaluation and measurement of training and performance
  • Youth apprenticeship and skill standards across nations
  • What constitutes a "high performance workplace"
  • Education and training policies of other nations
    • Web Casting

    Streampipe http://www.streampipe.com has married the power of Internet technology and the art of communication to give you the most sophisticated applications designed for enterprise-class streaming. Our experience has been successfully deployed within marketing, communications, executive, sales, training, public relations, and investor relations departments. These users have found consistent, measurable results that demonstrate the advantages of Internet broadcasting. Through this experience, we have tailored a "product" line that provides the versatility and functionality your enterprise demands:

    Streampipe - Broadcast: Sometimes, your message delivery mechanism is best suited for a true broadcast format; one-way. We can help you deliver that message as a live, global broadcast enhanced by slides and other features. Broadcast is perfect for seminars or press conferences where communications are often unidirectional.

    Streampipe - Interactive: When communication between you and your audience is necessary, Streampipe - Interactive provides a myriad of enhancements designed for two-way, interactive communications. Features like chat, polling, and Q & A modules provide the ability to take your product marketing seminar or training application to new levels of capability.

    Streampipe - OnDemand: Your content does not always have to be broadcast live to be effective. OnDemand allows your audience to view your message at their convenience, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world. This highly efficient delivery mechanism may be used for a five-minute promotional video or can be deployed for entire audio/video libraries.

  • Traffic reports - Our statistical user reports will help you identify and quantify the results of your message
  • Synchronized slides - Presentation materials can be delivered simultaneously with the presentation - a very powerful tool.
  • Registration engine - Collect valuable information about your prospects, customers, and members into a database for future use and analysis.
  • Polling & testing module - Engage your audience by asking, receiving, and tabulating questions. The perfect tool for focus groups and distance learning.
  • Chat room - Your audience can dialog in real-time, even in multiple languages, creating a sense of inclusion and participation.
  • Authentication - Also known as password protection, authentication allows you to control access to sensitive content.
  • Content indexing - For large amounts of information, indexing will allow your users to access the desired materials quickly and efficiently.
  • Interpretation & transcription - Your message can be quickly and easily converted to other languages and a written document.
  • Synchronized text - Synchronized text functions like closed captioning, allowing participants to read a scrolling text version of the presentation

    Horizon Live http://www.horizonlive.com/lecture/index.html

    As an Independent Disease Management Company, Accordant Health Services uses HorizonLive as an educational tool to enhance the coordination of care for patients living with chronic disease. The program is designed to help in the assessment of individual risks, assist in self-care and link patients to health care professionals. For Accordant, HorizonLive provides the opportunity to have specialists from around the world, address key concerns of patients, healthcare professionals and caregivers. It also functions as a support group for individuals suffering with illnesses and a forum for caregivers to exchange information and receive advice. When Accordant is providing online training they can respond to requests on-demand with streaming video, providing the same one-on-one quality of a face-to-face conference. HorizonLive provides a worldwide communicative Internet community which allows professionals to gain insight from experts in any location, and patients and caregivers to receive the information and assistance they need through live streaming video.

    What does HorizonLive offer?
    Marry ease of use, ease of deployment and a full set of powerful features with the most interactive classroom experience in the industry, and you will have a pretty good idea why corporations, institutes of higher education, publishing companies and many other organizations are choosing to implement HorizonLive 2.0. Product features in our newest version include:

    HorizonLive eBoard - our Integrated Whiteboard
    Live Application Sharing
    One-click Archive
    Live streaming Audio and/or Video
    HorizonLive Wizard
    Scalable to 300+ users
    Interface Flexibility
    Integrated Polling and Surveys
    Enhanced Firewall Access
    Web-standard Integration to
    Learning Management Systems
    Server-free Archive Option
    Breakout rooms, Private Messaging, and more..

    Akamai's http://www.akamai.com/ mission is to transform the delivery of Internet content so that Web congestion is a thing of the past. Akamai provides businesses with dependable, high-performance delivery of streaming media, rich Web content and Internet applications through services that are scalable, easily implemented and easily managed.

    Akamai exists to profitably provide businesses and organizations with a dependable, high-performance platform for the creation and delivery of engaging, interactive Web content, streaming media and Internet applications.

    Resources

    healthfinder® http://www.healthfinder.gov/

    is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public

    Kaiser Permanente http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/ provides free webcasts on health related topics

    Listserves http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html Can be used to market your site.

    Funding http://www.uwex.edu/disted/funding.html resources for technology are available at this site.

    Distance Education Resources


    Distance Education Clearinghouse     http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html located at the University of Wisconsin provides a complete overview of distance education.

    ERIC http://ericir.syr.edu is the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.

    AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone interested in education throughout the United States and the world. It began in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology and is now, with the ERIC Clearinghouse, a component of the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University. Today, AskERIC encompasses the resources of the entire ERIC system and beyond, using the subject expertise of the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses to respond to your education requests.

    Peterson's http://www.petersons.com/ Welcome to the most comprehensive and heavily traveled education resource on the Web, brought to you by Peterson's-the nation's leading provider of educational content, including college search and selection, test preparation, and lifelong learning http://www.lifelonglearning.com/. Since its founding in 1966, Peterson's has helped to connect individuals, educational institutions, and corporations through its critically acclaimed books, Web sites, online products, and admissions services. Peterson's reaches an estimated 100 million consumers annually with information about colleges and universities, career schools, graduate programs, distance learning, executive training, private secondary schools, summer opportunities, study abroad, financial aid, test preparation, and career exploration.

    The Distance Learning Resource Network http://www.dlrn.org (DLRN) is the dissemination project for the Star Schools Program, a federally funded distance education program which offers instructional modules, enrichment activities and courses in science, mathematics, foreign languages, workplace skills, high school completion and adult literacy programs. Some of the services DLRN provides include:

    • General Information. Information about distance education, highlighting Star Schools programs, instructional methods and strategies, and emerging technologies.
    • www.dlrn.org. An extensive website that includes current research and news items and covers a multitude of topics from information on the Star Schools projects to K-12 courses offered at a distance. Visitors can use our searchable database to find current information on the courses and resources available from the Star Schools projects, or peruse our library to find a variety of useful information on Distance Learning topics.
    • Course Design Tools. Online tools to assist with designing courses for web-based instruction.
    • 800# Helpline. Response to specific requests for distance education information by telephone.
    • dlrn@wested.org. Response to specific requests for distance education information by e-mail. Client requests are also answered via regular mail.
    • Online Forums. Provide educator networking opportunities through online.
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    PUBLIC HEALTH DISTANCE EDUCATION WEBSITES

    Public Health Foundation TrainingFinder.org http://www.trainingfinder.org At one central website, public health professionals of all disciplines can search the most comprehensive database of distance learning opportunities. The site provides information to assess and meet the development needs of the public health workforce, while further advancing state-of-the-art training and utilization of public health competencies. TrainingFinder.org is a free service for users and submitters provided by the Public Health Foundation (PHF) with support from its funding partners and sponsors. PHF receives no commissions nor any other financial compensation related to user enrollment in a course or purchase through this system.

    Distance Learning Websites in Public Health http://www.cdc.gov/phtn/sites.htm#dl

    The American Center for Study of Distance Education at http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde

    American Public Health Association at http://www.apha.org.

    Arizona Public Health Association at http://www.azpha.org/

    Association for Educational Communications and Technology at http://www.aect.org.

    Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) at      http://www.asph.org

    California Distance Learning Health Network at http://www.foundation.sdsu.edu/cdlhn

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at http://www.cdc.gov

    Department of Energy's Central Training Academy at http://www.nnsi.doe.gov

    Department of Defense, Telemedicine at http://www.matmo.org/.

    Federal Government Distance Learning Association (FGDLA) at http://www.fgdla.org/

    Georgia Statewide Academic and Medical System (GSAMS) at http://www2.state.ga.us/departments/doas/gsams/v2/master.html    

    Government Information Exchange at http://www.info.gov

    Health Care Financing Administration at http://www.hcfa.gov.

    Healthfinder at http://www.healthfinder.gov/

    Health Resources Services Administration at http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/.

    Marshall University School of Medicine's The Interactive Patient at http://medicus.marshall.edu/medicus.htm

    National Health Information Center (NHIC) at http://nhic-nt.health.org.

    National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN) at http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/dls/nltn/

    National Library of Medicine at http://www.nlm.nih.gov.

    National Technical Information Service's FedWorld at http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis

    New Jersey Public Health Association at http://www.njpha.org

    Peterson Education Center's On Line to the Future at http://www.petersons.com

    Public Broadcasting Service's Adult Learning Service at http://www.pbs.org/als

    Public Health Foundation at http://www.phf.org

    Public Health Practice Program Office's Information Network for Public Health Officials (INPHO) at http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/inpho/

    Rollins School of Public Health Continuing Professional Education Calendar at http://www.sph.emory.edu/CONTINUE/calendar.html

    Technical Horizons in Education (T.H.E.) Journal Online at http://www.thejournal.com.

    The John Hopkins School of Public Health at http://www.jhsph.edu/~distance

    TrainingFinder.org at http://www.TrainingFinder.org

    Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at http://www.usuhs.mil/.

    United States Distance Learning Association at http://www.usdla.org

    University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Center for the Advancement of
    Distance Education (CADE) at     http://www.uic.edu/sph/cade

    University of North Carolina School of Public Health's Center for Distance Learning and Health Communications at http://cdlhc.sph.unc.edu

    University of South Florida College of Public Health at http://www.med.usf.edu/PUBHEALTH/DLP

    University of Washington - "Knowledge Management in Health Services" on-line training course at  http://courses.washington.edu/~hs590a/hs590a.html

    University of Wisconsin - Distance Education at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html.

    Managed Care Related Info

    Due to the large volume of managed care related material on the web, we recommend that you do a search for Managed Care and link directly from the search engine. A few sites that are interesting are:

    Physicians who care http://www.pwc.org/ sponsor an HMO information site at http://www.hmopage.org - besides providing excellent information, it also has good MCO jokes..

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    MEDSCAPE Managed Cared http://managedcare.medscape.com The online managed care news source (over 30 publications) also operates a consumer site callecd CBSHealthWatch. Specifically, the site introduces "Smart Search," a feature that allows users to refine their searches and quickly locate the information most relevant to them. Smart Search is one of the most important upgrades made to CBSHealthWatch. It enables consumers to specify the type of information they seek, using parameters that include subject, media type, publication date, level of complexity, age and gender.

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