Evaluation of Educational Technologies to Human Resources Formation About Health Promotion in an Interprofessional Experience

Abstract

Aims: To describe and analyze the use of digital learning resources in an experience of interprofessional education in health promotion, with and without support mentoring. Materials and Methods: The study population consisted of 211 students from three editions of Course “Practices in Health Promotion “, Faculty of Medicine, USP. Resources, developed with open source software, were: blog, emails based groups and crosswords, all offered in 2007 and 2008, but this last year associated with a mentoring. The impact on learning was assessed qualitatively through focus groups and quantitatively, through the own blog software and groups counters. Results: Increased use of technologies throughout the course and the mentoring and the proximity of assessment increased the average blog visits, the number of students participating in emails based groups and the number of messages sent. The qualitative and quantitative evaluation shows impact of educational resources in the field of learning to know. Conclusion: The use of the blog and the email based group increased during the study, especially focusing on the content. Moreover, mentoring added to the teaching resources aimed at interaction showed significant differences in the forms of exchange in the group e- mails, which may be related to learn to live together