From user training courses and central support to creating local user competence for mentoring colleagues: A preliminary study in Malawi

Introducing online training for health staff: An institutional perspective

“…The literature on online training at the workplace focuses on blended approaches (Garley et al, 2016). Common topics include instructional design (Bjørge et al, 2015; Fuji & Galt, 2015), the development of the online courses (Chrysantina et al, 2019), and training curriculum oalr how the training was organized (Alharbi, 2017; Ammenwerth et al, 2019). A common strand in the literature evaluates online training by assessing the learning outputs (Kitsiou & Vlachopoulou, 2008, Dolezel & McLeod, 2017) or by comparing different methods (blended vs face‐to‐face, Mastellos et al, 2018; or fully online vs face‐to‐face, Russell et al, 2008).…”

“…When online training is used to replace onsite training, practices in planning, designing, organizing, and running training will need to change (Chio, 2020). Although some literature discusses implementation (Bjørge et al, 2015), they rarely touch upon the shift from onsite to online, the strategies, and the tension arising from this shift. The adoption of online training faces social and technological challenges such as access to reliable internet, hardware to access the training materials, digital literacy of the targeted learners, and both individual and organizational readiness to adopt online training approaches (Laksitowening et al, 2016, Kaasbøll, 2014; Dray et al, 2011; Nakanjako, et al, 2015; Tudor Car et al, 2018, Ammenwerth et al, 2019).…”