Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education and Training Institute in collaboration with Cambrian College, the Basic Radiological Technician Program, and the Ojibway and Cree Cultural Centre, will be developing Basic Radiography digital learning objects and online courseware to help support the training of remote First Nations community members to become proficient Basic Radiological Technicians. Basic Radiological Technicians work under the direction of physicians and nurses in the provision of clinical radiography (x-ray) services to patients within their own home communities.

Learning objects will help to support “visual learning” and “learning by doing” among First Nations learners. The project uses eDome a high-tech, digital, multimedia specially designed facility developed at Cambrian College that facilitates the audio and video capturing of objects in a cinema-like production environment. The project will use eDome to house a typical First Nations radiographic clinical setup complete with the mobile AMX-4 x-ray machine to capture and produce a series of learning objects of Aboriginal radiological technicians performing radiographic clinical procedures on Aboriginal patients. The project will also use Moodle to deliver and distribute learning objects and online courseware.

The project will enable First Nations learners and learning organizations to have more effective access to digital educational learning objects and online courseware in their traditional languages and in ways appropriate to their needs and cultural context.

The project commenced on October 2007 and ended on January 2009.  Funding for the project was provided by Inukshuk Wireless.

To learn more about the project please visit the project website at:

http://blog.oshki.ca/trdp

To access the learning objects please visit the learning object repository:

http://www.oshki.ca/public/brt