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Education Technology The Baycrest Academy's Centre for Education uses state-of-the-art educational technology to promote and enhance teaching and learning across the Baycrest campus. Serious games for teaching and learning The Centre for Education is innovating serious simulation games for healthcare education. In partnership with the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation, the Kunin- Lunenfeld Centre for Applied Research & Evaluation, and Launch 57, the Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care (CLRI) designs, delivers, and evaluates meta-simulation game worlds for students and staff to excel in the care of older adults. The Learning Interprofessionally Healthcare Accelerator (LIPHA) combines simulation-, game-, art-, and story-based learning techniques with evidence and best care practices. The goal is to foster clinical specialization, professional socialization, teamwork, and values-based practice. LIPHA is an education technology solution designed to counteract healthcare workforce shortages through effective, virtual learning that is accessible online anytime, anywhere, on any device. To date over 2,000 learners have excelled in LIPHA for long- term care. eLearning This year, the Baycrest eLearning team led the instructional design and development of the Cannabis and Older Adults eLearning modules for the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH), which launched in March/April 2022. More than 1,700 healthcare providers and healthcare students accessed these modules. This project was funded by Health Canada (Substance Use and Addictions Program). As well, the Learning Management System (LMS) continued to support Baycrest staff in providing access to 145 core curriculum and clinical courses. The LMS also served a growing number of external users, such as family medicine students on their geriatrics rotation, physicians and dentists completing re-credentialing, and international physicians attending virtual rounds. More than 14,000 eLearning courses were completed. Simulation Activities in Gerontological Education Baycrest's Simulation Activities in Gerontological Education (SAGE) program is one of only a few in the world working with older adult, volunteer-simulated participants (SPs). These SPs play the role of clients, family members, or healthcare providers for educational purposes. SPs and the SAGE program support a wide variety of educational programs to promote the highest quality of care for older adults. 2022–2023 ANNUAL REPORT 17 "I have found my participation in SAGE to be quite amazing," says Anne Katz, a long-time Baycrest volunteer. "We're learning, we're acting, we're having a great deal of fun, and we're able to transmit information to present and future caregivers for older adults. I feel it's a very worthwhile contribution."

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