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3 Shifting the learning landscape Faith Boutcher, Director, Academic Education & IPE, Baycrest Baycrest is investing in educational innovations that will empower current and future healthcare providers as well as consumers. This includes new innovative projects, partnerships and exciting commercialization of our education and online learning products. Our educational products are a key area where we can generate revenue, so Baycrest is working on a commercialization strategy. We want to offer our products to a number of target groups, including hospitals and individual healthcare professionals, colleges and universities. A few of our commercialization efforts include: The development of an eCampusOntario online interprofessional certificate in complex and long-term care with George Brown and Ryerson. This certificate program will focus on preparing post-graduate healthcare providers to work interprofessionally with frail older adults and families who require complex and/or long- term care within institutions or in the home. The program will promote comprehensive assessment and team approaches to care planning and delivery which are client and family centric. It will also provide credits for higher learning programs, e.g., baccalaureate in nursing, health services management or gerontology. The Baycrest Centre for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long- Term Care (CLRI) online courses will be live in spring 2019. For the past 20 years, Baycrest's Memory and Aging Program (MAP), an instructor-led education and intervention program for older adults who are experiencing normal age-related memory changes, has helped more than 900 participants better manage their memory function. We are now moving MAP to an online format, and it is currently set to go into clinical trials later this month. Baycrest's virtual reality dementia simulations, supported by CABHI funding, are now being integrated into the new eCampusOntario certificate described above. We recently showcased the virtual reality dementia simulations at the "Realities in Medicine" conference, which focused on virtual reality applications. This year we will explore funding sources to support development of more virtual and augmentative reality content. Baycrest's online course, Team-Based Care for Responsive Behaviours, is now included in our core curriculum. An online version will also be available later this month and for sale externally in April. Baycrest will also market our 8A's of Dementia gamified training as a supplement to the full online course and will be available as a stand-alone module too. Baycrest is also piloting a new Team Essentials for Coordinating Care for Responsive Behaviours and a Team Essentials for Preventing Acute Deterioration eLearning course with staff and students. We are also developing a business plan and go-to-market strategy for our SOS Gamified Learning App for Early Identification and Response to Acute Deterioration. The app enables simulated, case-based and micro learning and provides instant performance feedback to an unlimited number of learners anywhere, anytime, on any device. We know that today's staff, students and consumers want to find and quickly synthesize information. They gravitate to interactive, innovative courses with relevant, bite sized, evidence-based content. Baycrest continues to look ahead at additional innovative ways to train and educate. By redesigning our programs to be more current, we simultaneously get our expertise out, while bringing revenue in and training current and next generation of healthcare providers.

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