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Rationale for eLearning

• Restriction on the hiring of nurses


• Skills gap – lack of training opportunities, task shifting,
emerging and reemerging diseases
• Cost of education
• Limited access to learning opportunities – 100 per year
• Quality control – curriculum and content

Objectives:
• Address the shortage of qualified nurses in Kenya rapidly
and cost-effectively
• Improve standards of nursing care and the health of
disadvantaged people in Kenya
• Increase access to affordable, continuing and higher
Class room based learning nurse upgrading programme education for professional development of practicing
nurses
• Respond to growing worldwide consensus that nurses can
take a greater role in patient care and clinical health care
AMREF©2010

management
• Work towards health-related Millennium Development
Goals (4, 5 & 6)

Methodology:
• Organisational alignment (Public-Private Partnership,
Governance, Shared infrastructure, Share responsibility)
• Learning design and development (curriculum and
content)
• Learning delivery (eCentres)
• Learning administration (learner support)
E- Learning nurse upgrading Programme • Monitoring and evaluation (Kirpatrick model)
• Operations

Outcomes:
• Increased access to health education
• Improved nursing care - immediate application into
practice
• Reduced cost of learning
• Replicating eLearning across other cadre and other
countries
• Programme mainstreamed

Transitioning from ‘e’ to ‘m’ Learning


• On demand access to learning
• Increased reach – geographical, exploiting existing
technology
M-Learning nurse upgrading programme • Increased learner support
For more info about AMREF visit: • Accessible across more than 60 makes of low-end GPRS
www.amref.org and Java enabled phones
• Content downloaded to mobile device
Or Contact Diana Mukami at:
Diana.mukami@amref.org

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