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Developing the SAPHA course
The development of the theoretical part of the SAPHA (Patient handling in safe and rehabilitating way) course started in November 2019 by planning and agreeing to rough outline. As presented in the project plan, the course will be implemented as an online course. Intensive development of the course took place during the beginning of the year and spring 2020. Already in the early stage the Consortium had a common understanding that the course would be divided into separate and smaller study units, called “baskets”, that are studied in a specific order and their contents are built on each other.
Experts from all 7 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and from Ergosolutions BC and FIOH participated in the work. At the beginning of the entity was planned together with large consortium and MS Teams was diligently used as a communication and work platform. During the springtime the Consortium decided to divide the project group into smaller groups, each one responsible for developing one of the five baskets. Development work was supposed to be done together during the intensive week in Slovenia but due to Covid-19 restrictions the plan had to be changed and work was completed online, via MS Teams. Work and thoughts of every group were introduced to the rest of the project group regularly and everyone got interesting ideas and feedback to continue working on the SAPHA course.
During springtime, the Moodle platform was chosen as the tool for implementing the online course. Moodle is already used in several participating HEIs and the SAPHA course can be exported from Moodle and imported to another online platform if necessary. Project groups worked hard to produce the content in MS Teams and our technical specialists worked collaboratively during the summertime. Another blog posted by Marion Karppi already described the experiences of that intensive process. Finally, the entity of the SAPHA theory part began to take shape for everyone while Moodle was constructed. SAPHA continued to be transferred to Moodle during the autumn, and visual contents were produced.
Finally, the Moodle platform was opened on the 1st of October, and students started to work on piloting the SAPHA course. Altogether 27 students from all HEIs are currently participating in the piloting phase. Baskets from 1 to 5 are being opened in order and students have approximately 2 weeks to conclude each basket. Students are giving both qualitative and quantitative feedback to the project team during and after the piloting period. Based on that feedback, the consortium will continue to refine the online SAPHA course further in the beginning of 2021.
Antti Sillanpää, OUAS Finland
RENE team member and co-leader of the theoretical SAPHA course