Speaker bio's

Senior Lecturer

AUT

ailsa.haxell@aut.ac.nz

IT's health promoting

The use of IT for preparation of a vocational workforce includes student skill development, as well as changing course delivery. A showcase of multiple applications of IT within the teaching and learning that occurs in the BHSc in Health Promotion degree at AUT includes course content of webdesign, and innovation in use of media and communications in getting health messages across, Course delivery has included online platforms for ethical decision making and interpersonal skill development enhanced with use of multimedia.

Rising to the challenge includes preparing our graduates for their workplace in a future that is very different to our past. Ailsa's experiences in gaining skills alongside students will be discussed.

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Ailsa Haxell works in the tertiary sector in the vocational preparation of people working in the health sector. Her interest in web-enhanced learning comes from what at first seemed to be a counterintuitive approach to the platform; the teaching of interpersonal skills. She has had a promiscuous disregard for boundaries and in crossing multiple communities of practice have been able to pick up, alter, and adapt, ideas and applications. Ailsa's formal studies continue with study for a Doctorate through Deakin University, with the working title of 'Teaching and Learning Issues of Heart and Soul using IT'.