TY - ABST
T1 - Students Communicate their Professional Passion through Pecha Kucha
AU - Ringby, Betina
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - BackgroundThe Danish government encourages skills in entrepreneurship and innovation at all levels of the Danish educational system. In implementing entrepreneurial thinking in health education Pecha Kucha seems to be a useful approach when defining entrepreneurship teaching as an overall concept for creativity, innovation and enterprise. Questions we cared about were: How to make students think creatively and innovatively? How to make students communicate their professional passion?MethodA student-centered experiential approach was used to support and encourage students to form an innovative and enterprising behavior. Ability to communicate and present ideas and proposals for patients/clients, colleagues/partners and decision-makers is essential for students today. Pecha Kucha 20x20 is a globally used presentation format. 20 images are presented, each for 20 seconds and you talk along to the images. Pecha Kucha was implemented in our curriculum as a learning activity in a 10-week course concerning health promotion and prevention. Each student was ‘forced’ to reflect on their own special professional interest, create an innovative presentation and finally communicate their passion. An online evaluation was carried out. A total of 87 students (26% male, 74% female) responded out of 155.FindingsMore than 55% of the respondents stated: ‘I strongly agree or ‘To some degree’ that it was personally challenging to create and present the Pecha Kucha, that creating and presenting was a rewarding learning process, and that their experience with Pecha Kucha as a creative and innovative presentation form would be a useful tool in their future studies and/or practical working life. The process of creating and presenting a Pecha Kucha contributed to an increasing awareness among students to see their own potential as creative, innovative and enterprising future professionals.DiscussionsThe findings of the project comprise important issues related to learning based on creativity, passion and the courage to communicate it. In the light of the present focus on how to reach your ‘target group’, creativity related to communication is an important skill for health professionals, and we hope the project can contribute to further didactic discussions on how to teach different aspects of communication skills needed for future health professionals.
AB - BackgroundThe Danish government encourages skills in entrepreneurship and innovation at all levels of the Danish educational system. In implementing entrepreneurial thinking in health education Pecha Kucha seems to be a useful approach when defining entrepreneurship teaching as an overall concept for creativity, innovation and enterprise. Questions we cared about were: How to make students think creatively and innovatively? How to make students communicate their professional passion?MethodA student-centered experiential approach was used to support and encourage students to form an innovative and enterprising behavior. Ability to communicate and present ideas and proposals for patients/clients, colleagues/partners and decision-makers is essential for students today. Pecha Kucha 20x20 is a globally used presentation format. 20 images are presented, each for 20 seconds and you talk along to the images. Pecha Kucha was implemented in our curriculum as a learning activity in a 10-week course concerning health promotion and prevention. Each student was ‘forced’ to reflect on their own special professional interest, create an innovative presentation and finally communicate their passion. An online evaluation was carried out. A total of 87 students (26% male, 74% female) responded out of 155.FindingsMore than 55% of the respondents stated: ‘I strongly agree or ‘To some degree’ that it was personally challenging to create and present the Pecha Kucha, that creating and presenting was a rewarding learning process, and that their experience with Pecha Kucha as a creative and innovative presentation form would be a useful tool in their future studies and/or practical working life. The process of creating and presenting a Pecha Kucha contributed to an increasing awareness among students to see their own potential as creative, innovative and enterprising future professionals.DiscussionsThe findings of the project comprise important issues related to learning based on creativity, passion and the courage to communicate it. In the light of the present focus on how to reach your ‘target group’, creativity related to communication is an important skill for health professionals, and we hope the project can contribute to further didactic discussions on how to teach different aspects of communication skills needed for future health professionals.
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T2 - EACH International conference on communication in healthcare 2014 - See more at: http://www.each-conference.com/#sthash.gsHWhWrm.dpuf
Y2 - 28 September 2014 through 1 October 2014
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