Nancy Gathany, PhD & Rhonda Willis, MBA

OSELS/Educational Design and Accreditation Branch

MedBiquitous Annual MeetingApril 9, 2013

Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory ServicesScientific Education and Professional Development Program Office

Public Health Application of the Experience API

Nation’s premier public health agency— working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

All who work to protect and improve the public’s health Behavioral scientists Educators Epidemiologists Laboratorians Nurses Pharmacists Physicians Veterinarians

Public Health Community

Abundance of Training Sources

Uncoordinated collections of training within CDCand throughout the public health community

State & Local health departments

Hospitals, clinics, physicians’ offices

Academia

Federal Agencies (HRSA, AHRQ, etc)

Non-profit organizations and foundations

Part One of the Solution: CDC Learning Connection

2010 - we created the CDC Learning Connection Coordinate the delivery of CDC’s training for learners

throughout the public health community

2011 – Added an LMS, CDC TRAIN, a dynamic public health learning management system

Today – the Learning Connectionis a one-stop learning resourcethat provides free access toproducts developed for thepublic health community

www.cdc.gov/learning

www.cdc.gov/learning

CDC Learning Connection

CDC TRAIN Home page

April Update for CDC LC Website

Part Two of the Solution:Public Health Learning Data Store

GOALDevelop a central data store where learning management systems (LMSs) seamlessly share thousands of public health related training

Steps to Constantly Revisit

Keep stakeholders engaged

Revisit policies and security requirements as technology evolves

Perfect how you communicate the concept

Sequential Steps

Assess current resources and determine needs Create implementation plan with input from

experts Conduct formative evaluation

Test the concept through peer review Pilot test prototype

Secure funding Initiate procurement process for required

components

Public Health

Learning Data Store

Benefits

Make it easy to deliver training through a central data store connected to multiple LMSs Learners can locate training across multiple LMSs Developers can identify similar training content and

reduce training redundancy Store e-learning files Track e-learning usage data

Challenges

Funding Staying on top of Operation and Maintenance User Support Similar to LMS Abstract concept to convey

We must determine ways to amplify every dollar in

public health.

--Harvey Fineberg, PhDPresident of the Institute of Medicine

December 2012

For questions and additional information about this presentation, please contact us at:

Nancy Gathany NGathany@cdc.govRhonda Willis: RWillis3@cdc.gov

or visit us at:www.cdc.gov/learning

For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333Telephone: 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov Web: http://www.cdc.gov

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory ServicesScientific Education and Professional Development Program Office

Thank you!