By Michael Wong on June 28, 2010
Dr. Patti Janssen, a 2009/2010 Killam Teaching Prize recipient, shares her experience working with OLT to develop a distributed learning format in the Master of Public Health program. She also discusses her teaching experience, and how she was able to use an online component to enhance the accessibility of the MPH to working health professionals.
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By Kelsey Beninger on February 22, 2010
Sherri Morrish has spent the past 16 years in the nursing field and has now set her sights on earning a Master’s of Science in Nursing with a major in Clinical Education. It seems like a lot to handle, being a wife, mother to two young daughters, and working full time while studying for her degree, but not for Sherri. She has managed to balance it all with distance education.
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By Lacey Hayes on January 26, 2010
PSYC 302: Infancy teaches students the trajectory and mechanisms of infant development. Students will have the opportunity to contribute to blogs and wikis, use online technology to ‘raise a virtual baby’ through an interactive feature simulating parent decision making, and view short video clips illustrating key concepts in the study of infancy
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By Lacey Hayes on September 11, 2009
IHHS 411 is the first of its kind offered by the College of Health Discipline at UBC. IHHS 411 is a topic focused overview of violence and abuse across a person’s life including child abuse and neglect, adult intimate partner violence, elder abuse, human trafficking, as well as rape and sexual assault.
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By Lacey Hayes on September 10, 2009
LIBR 548F examines the book as a material object and looks at its importance as an agent of intellectual and social development. With the course, there is a strong emphasis on online student participation through online postings on the discussion boards in addition to contributions to an entry on an “Encyclopaedia of the Book” for the course wiki.
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