Welcome to the 2013 Indianapolis SUN
Exercises in Blended Learning
John Gillespie
Laerdal Medical Corp.
Introductions
Helping out today will be:
• Lori Kurtz
• Jeff Mattingly
• John Gillespie
Learning Objectives
• Define Blended Learning
• Improve ROI by reducing costs through training more people in less time
• Demonstrate how Blended Learning can standardize the delivery of
education across teams and departments
• Demonstrate how to utilize various education methods to create high
level efficiencies in education delivery
• Discuss how a current program could be converted to blended activity
Agenda
10:45-12:00 Session lifespan
10:45-11:00 Introduction to Blended Learning PowerPoint
11:00-11:15 Group 1- ROI Calculator
11:15-11:30 Group 2- High Efficiency CPR
11:30-11:45 Group 3- Team Driven CPR
11:45-12:00 Wrap up/Questions/ Debriefing
Fasten your seatbelts! This will be a fast ride.
Blended Learning Defined…
“The combination of different training
media (ie., technologies, activities, and types
of events) to create an optimum training
program for a specific audience. The term
“blended” means that traditional
instructor-led training is being
supplemented with other electronic
formats” (2004).
Ways that we learn…..
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Reading- Books or online
Didactically- Lecture or online video
Hands on- Skill reporting feedback/task trainer
Via Technology both online and hands on- computer based simulation
Team training- Peer pressure/enhancement
What does it look like?
ECC’s eLearning Growth
Heartcode ACLS & BLS
Sept. ’06 – Dec. ‘08
BLS and ACLS - Cumulative
The Bottom Line…
Cost Savings & Other Benefits
MedCentral Health System – Mansfield, Ohio
– Reported annual savings of $10,000 in paper and development costs alone
Greenville Hospital System
– Reduced their number of regulatory training hours by over 70% in one year
– Compliance rates jumped from 88% to 98%.
– Cost savings improved 71% in the first year
The Children’s Medical Center – Dayton, Ohio
– Achieved an internal record of 97% completion rate for mandatory education
– Average time taken to finish a course decreased from 1.5 – 2 hours to 50 minutes; a time
savings of over 44%
Williamson Medical Center – Franklin, Tennessee
– Met 100% of their Joint Commission training requirements
– Reduces their training costs by approximately 60%.
Break out
sessions
Please move to
the next station
Questions and Discussion
Questions and Discussion
• What are you currently doing with Blended/e-Learning?
• What new technology/courses/processes have you added in recent
months/years?
• What new “ways” have worked well/what has been most challenging?
• Are you using webinars, blogs, wikis?
• How do you share information among your peers at
your facility, regionally, across the country, worldwide?
• What is on the horizon for you in terms of new
types of training?
Thank you!
Enjoy the SUN!