Can Mobile Health Training Meet the Challenge of "Measuring Better"?

Autor/inn/en	Winters, Niall; Oliver, Martin; Langer, Laurenz
Titel	Can Mobile Health Training Meet the Challenge of "Measuring Better"?
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 53 (2017) 1, S.115-131 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
DOI	10.1080/03050068.2017.1254983
Schlagwörter	Health Education; Health Promotion; Handheld Devices; Distance Education; Online Courses; Technology Uses in Education; Influence of Technology; Learning Processes; Measurement Techniques; Educational Practices; Training Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Online course; Online-Kurs; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Learning process; Lernprozess; Messtechnik; Bildungspraxis; Didaktik; Trainingsmaßnahme
Abstract	Mobile learning has seen a large uptake in use in low- and middle-income countries. This is driven by rhetorics of easy scaling, reaching the hard-to-reach and the potential for generating analytics from the applications used by learners. Healthcare training has seen a proliferation of apps aimed at improving accountability through tracking and measuring workplace learning. A view of the mobile phone as an agent of change is thus linked with a technocentric approach to measurement. Metrics, initially created as proxies for what gets done by health workers, are now shaping the practices they were intended to describe. In this paper, we show how, despite some valiant efforts, "measuring better" remains difficult to achieve due to entrenched views of what measurement consists of. We analyse a mobile health (mHealth) classification framework, drawing out some implications of how it has been used in training health workers. These lead us to recommend moving away from a view of mobile learning linked tightly to accountability and numbers. We suggest a focus on an alternative future, where "measuring better" is promoted as part of socio-cultural views of learning and linked with a social justice conceptualisation of development. (As Provided).
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