ASCILITE 2009 conference

Hi Karen,
Sounds like a brillinat idea, already we have seen how trageted and tailored text messaging can improve knowledge as well as compliance with self care. I would imagine when person centric healthcare idea truly becomes person centric, "educated and empowered" consumers would drive the change not only in their own health status but also in the healthcare system. How the technology can be best leveraged to "educate and empower consumers" would be an interesting question.
Cheers

Today the conference started with a plenary by Scot Diener with an inspiring and entertaining presentation about the developing interest in Second Life for education. I found Mark Nichols' approach interesting - he maintained that we shouldn't let enthusiasm substitute for good judgement when deciding to use ICT in education. His cautionary note seemed to colour the rest of the day for me. One after another presentation had a mix of reports on successes and failures but with the message that failure should be instructional rather than inhibitory.
You raise an interesting thought, Priyesh, about the parallel between self care for chronic conditions and using mobile technology for tertiary education. Today and yesterday it struck me that being at a conference about ICT-mediated education is not terribly different from health informatics! It's good not to feel a stranger in the conference.