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Dosimetry Training Tool Wiki (DTTWiki)

Welcome to DTT Wiki OpenCourseWare: An open educational resource (OER) for medical physics and dosimetrist educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Information contained in this OER is for educational intent alone, and therefore should never be used as a resource for treating any patient or patients in any clinical setting anytime or anywhere.

What is DTT Wiki

The DTT Wiki course materials and other course materials are contributed by the worldwide medical physics and dosimetry community
Access requires users to be registered Dosimetry Training Tool subscribers
It is not a resource of information to treat patients in a clinical setting
Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
Does not provide access to Dosimetry Training Tool faculty or staff
Does not provide access to any Qualified Medical Physicists or Dosimetrists

About DTT Wiki

DTT Wiki is a Web-based electronic publishing initiative by Stanford University's Radiation Oncology department.

DTT Wiki's goals are to

Provide a searchable access to DTT Wiki's Non-Profit Organization for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Extend the reach and impact of medical dosimetry education and the "opencourseware" concept.
Provide a resource for localization of medical dosimetry educational material.

DTT Wiki as a part of Stanford University's Dosimetry Training Tool. The intent of the creation of content in the DTT Wiki is to share pedagogy, and knowledge of medical physics and dosimetry contributors to benefit others. We expect DTT Wiki to reach a steady - though never static - state by 2011. Between now and then, we will harvest and publish materials from the Dosimetry Training Tool and provide access to DTT users to expand the content as they see fit.

We will be continually evaluating the Access, Use, and Impact of DTT Wiki. With the raw imported content from the Dosimetry Training Tool, we are still in a learning stage of this DTT Wiki initiative and we will benefit enormously from your feedback and contributions as we strive to make DTT Wiki as rich and useful as possible for our users.

Tools

Learn the DTT Wiki fundamentals with these easily downloaded documents:

DTT Wiki Fact Sheet.
How to become a DTT Wiki content contributor.
How to contribute content to DTT Wiki.

Translation

Learn more about translating the DTT Wiki:

Translation extension used.
How to become a translator for the DTT Wiki.
How to translate DTT Wiki articles.

Foundation Support

At this time, there is no foundation support. We rely solely on our members to contribute toward the DTT Wiki initiative.

Evaluation Partners

To be determined.

Publication

DTT Wiki faculty share a passion for teaching and contributing educational materials to the field of medical physics and dosimetry. The DTT Wiki staff strives to support the DTT Wiki user in their work by:

Helping users put their course materials online for teaching
Providing a vehicle for users to share their ideas and contribute to their discipline

Generally, DTT Wiki's users are already over-committed with teaching and research obligations. They share a concern respecting any additional burden that publishing their materials to the DTT Wiki Web site might place on them. In addition, open publication of course materials on the Internet (or in any medium) introduces considerations beyond what is involved in preparing materials for classroom use. Among these are "contextualization" (scrubbing out irrelevant data such as class meeting location, and adding context that sets the course within the larger curriculum), addition of metadata (to support online search and other functions), and copyright clearance.

In order to make it as easy for users to participate as is possible, DTT Wiki does much of the work. In most cases, faculty participation requires as little as one or two meetings and a few emails as the DTT Wiki staff provides the following services:

Create and capture content

Audit courses and take lecture notes, and transcribe handwritten lecture notes
Take notes to document key discussions / case studies
Photograph, videotape, and/or audiotape course-related events and materials (e.g., labs)
Find public domain images
Provide professional graphic artist services

Organize and reformat content