Interprofessional E-Learning and Collaborative Work: Practices and Technologies

Interprofessionalism, an emerging model and philosophy of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, has in increasingly become an important means of cultivating joint endeavors across varied and diverse disciplinary and institutional settings.

Interprofessional E-Learning and Collaborative Work: Practices and Technologies is therefore, an important source for understanding how interprofessionalism can be promoted and enhanced at various levels in learners' educational experiences, particularly with regard to e-learning and reusable learning objects, given the potential to cross boundaries of time, location and academic disciplines. This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest case driven research findings to improve understanding of interprofessional possibilities through e-learning at the level of universities, networks and organizations, teams and work groups, information systems and at the level of individuals as actors in the networked environments.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• E-interprofessional learning beyond the physical university
• E-learning materials and the role of learning technologists
• Experiential Learning
• Facilitated interprofessional learning
• Interprofessional and interdisciplinary learning
• Leading and managing educational change
• Technological usage
• The use of reusable learning objects
• Use and analysis of online interaction in education
• Web2.0 approach to interdisciplinary teaching and learning