CI notes of interest...

This past weekend I drove down to Virginia to meet with Patrick from the University of Virginia who is doing his PhD in Education Technology and is interested in writing about distance learning as a way to do training in health care in Haiti. We are working collaboratively both in research and practice, so it was nice to meet him.

He is flying down to Haiti this coming week to do a needs analysis on health care in Haiti in terms of what kinds of things would make good training seminars. The plan is then to develop a mini certificate program to offer through the American University in Les Cayes via Centra that will allow health professionals in the US to train health care workers in Haiti.

I am excited about the possibilities of what we might be able to learn from this project. Some knowledge will invariably need to be tacit. My question is, are there enough affordances in Centra to facilitate that kind of knowledge transfer. The other interesting component or opportunity that arises from this project is possibility of engagement. Many of the potential partners of the project are faculty at the University of Virginia. Are there opportunities for them to learn more about tropical diseases or gather data from Les Cayes ?

Will post more as the project unfolds...