Global Health "interactive Curricula Experience (iCE) Platform & App": Technology that enables inter-professional innovation

Purpose

• Content: The Global Health module in the "interactive Curricula Experience (iCE) Platform & App" is an innovative technology that is timely and important for medical educators. It is a content management system that facilitates the organization and delivery of Jefferson-developed content for faculty. The iCE Platform & App provides a mechanism to rapidly create new learning objects/course content that can be accessed, used as is, or duplicated and modified by instructors for use in different courses. The courseware is published and then made available to the students via iPad, as well as on laptop and desktop computers. In conjunction with iPad integration, the iCE Platform & APP enables migration to new academic models with engaging content that encourages exploration.
• Program period: on-going
• Why: The global health iCP Platform & App provides a distribution mechanism for Global Health content that can be woven into any course at Jefferson.
• Aim: To facilitate inter-institutional learning across Schools and Learning Centers, encourage exploration and innovation, meet student expectations and provide the most up-to-date information on the broad field of global health.

Design

• Program Goals, Outcomes: To develop and maintain a courseware platform utilizing multiple methodologies of learning that enable faculty and students to explore.
• Participants: The Global Health modules in The iCE Platform & APP were developed by Jefferson’s Global Health Interdisciplinary Committee, an inter-academic committee of instructors and students focused on global health. A volunteer team from GHIC produced the initial platform.
• Sustainability:  Faculty self select training from four progressive segments, depending on their technical agility. The GHIC modules are integral to the institution-wide database available to all faculties.