Hi,
My name is Elske. I am senior lecturer at UMIT, a university located in Tyrol in the Western part of Austria. I am from Germany, but moved to Austria in 2001.
My field of expertise is health informatics. I am teaching health information systems, evidence-based medical informatics and project management, among others.
This is my 5th MET course. Until now, I have taken ETEC 510, 511, 512 and 515b.
I got interested in Education Technology several years ago. As a university teacher, I felt that our ways of teaching are often ineffective and not student-centred. I wanted to explore how to use technology to activate students and to improve teaching and thus started the MET programme. At the moment, I chair the UMIT Committee on Teaching and Learning that is responsible for coordinating activities regarding improving the quality of teaching at UMIT. Also, I am responsible to implement a new online master programme in health informatics. This is really a challenge, and the MET courses helped me quite a lot here …
In this course, I hope to deepen my understanding on how to use technology in fields related to my teaching area (computer science).
Besides my professional life, I have two kids (9 and 11 years). In my free time, I to Taekwondo (red belt) (see photo).
Elske
I enjoy this class because the students are from all backgrounds and bring a wealth of information. When I read “health informatics” – many things were going through my mind and one of them was why have I gained weight when I left the F2F classroom to teach fully online. The easy answer was that I was sitting down all the time. I now have access to a stand-up desk and force myself to go for walks a few times a day.
I did look up “health informatics” and I was way off 🙂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_informatics
Correct me if this link does describe “health informatics”.
Christopher