ICT in the Delivery of an International Program on Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability

This paper describes a case of how ICT was employed in an international collaborative project between two higher education institutions to develop an online international Psychiatry “unit of study” on Intellectual Disability. The paper also discusses the way in which the teaching and learning online environment served as a design and development tool, which allowed experts from dispersed locations around the world to contribute, review, and develop their materials and activities. The aim of the unit is for participants to gain the fundamental knowledge and skills to be able to conduct psychiatric assessment of people with intellectual disability and to develop and implement a management plan within their own cultural and service contexts. Based on the sensitivity to cultural and social diversity, the program will integrate international perspectives, relate to international sources of knowledge, build explicit links between principles and practice, and embed teaching and learning in the students’ clinical...