July 2, 2014 Education Telecon

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Attendees

• Melva Peters - (Chair)
• Ken Chen - (Chair) Scribe
• John Quinn - HL7 CTO
• Melissa Bundy - Lantana Group
• Mary Ann Boyle - HL7 Manager of Education
• Jean Duteau - HL7 Canada
• Sharon Chaplock - HL7 Director of Education

Meeting Agenda/Minutes

T3SD Election

• Andy Stetchishin is nominated

Andy Stechishin Profile

• Minutes:
  • No other candidates have been nominated but Andy Stetchishin for T3SD.
    • Jean Duteau - Motion to move
    • Ken Chen - Second the motion

• • Results: 4 In favor 0 Against 0 Abstain (4 0 0) Approved

Action: Melva will submit T3SD Vote for Education to HQ

Tutorials

• SAIF Webinar
  • will be recorded at the WGM
  • Feb 5, 2014: Ron's day job interfered with his available time to record. He is looking to reschedule but no word yet.
  • May 21, 2014: Ron still has not had the time to engage the SAIF Webinar
  • June 4: No updates since last conference call, Melva will continue to follow up

Action: Melva will follow up with ARB who will look to find someone to record the information
Action:  Include as regular agenda item until recorded

September 2014 WGM Tutorial Grid

File:Copy of Sept 2014 preliminary tutorial grid.xlsx

• Discussion on Webinars to replace tutorials that can't be scheduled for Chicago

Action: Sharon is still working on possible Webinars for Chicago

Discussion of Certification Exams and Ed Summits

• v2 Workshop Project
  • Melva has reached out to Patrick but no new updates.

• Minutes:
  • Diego might take on this project depending if Patrick has the bandwidth to complete it.

Action: Melva will continue to find out more information about Patrick's commitments

Updates to the certification exams

• Sharon has analyzed the certifications and will need to possibly revise the questions.
• Sharon would like to create a taskforce to review the questions on the exams.
  • Qualifications needed to be on the taskforce:
    • The group will be comprised of volunteers from the tutorial speaker pool to review the certification exam
    • Must have attended/audit the actual tutorial
    • Must be approved by the Education Committee

Action: Sharon has drafted the process and will continue to work on the planning of a group to review the material.

Webinar Planning for 2015

• Discussion of proposed webinar topics for 2015

Action: Mary Ann will follow up with Sharon about webinars 

• Minutes:

Action: Melva will send an email to the list about upcoming webinars in the future

WGM Planning

• Quarters - Monday Q3 and Q4, Thursday Q1 and Q2
• Melva's availability - Only at WGM Sunday through Wednesday

• Minutes:
  • Melva will be unable to attend WGM on Thursday Q1 and Q2

Action: Ken/Diego will lead the meetings on Thursday.

• Agenda item 1:
  • Sharon said HL7 Spain asked more testing time for the certification exams due. Currently the testing time is 2 hours and the testers are having a difficult time with the english items.

• Agenda item 2:
  • Sharon suggested possibility of created a spanish version of the certification exams to help with comprehension.

Current resources and reading material

• Will look at the list to determine how we can use it
  • Ken is still working on a the list. As soon as it is completed, we will place it as an agenda item.
  • Still compiling list but researching a possible open source library software called Koha. www.koha.org

• Minutes:
  • Ken Chen is still working on the resource list. Koha software may not be an option since the only modules that would be only use is Cataloging and Serials.

Action: Ken will generate the resource list first then add this to the next WGM Q1/Q2 agenda item for discussion. 

AOB

• none

Next meeting

• Next meeting - July 16, 2014 at 11am Eastern