The Ripple Effect

Building academic staff capacity for using eSimulations in professional education for experience transfer - a professional journey of development

Abstract

This poster presents the process of developing academic staff capacity in using eSimulations in professional education. Its focus is on the conditions needed to be able to develop the knowledge and skills for developing eSimulations for teaching and the impacts on colleagues. The project final report has indicated the importance of a range of forces that must be in place for knowledge transfer and organisational capacity building to occur (Cybulski, et al., 2010). The inclusion of operational leadership, keen competence and understanding of learning design, supporting infrastructure, technology development knowledge and content knowledge are integral components of the ability to build capacity in others.