DISTANCE LEARNING 17 BEST PRACTICES ICS Transforming Technologies

“Most ideas about teaching are not new, but not everyone knows the old ideas.”

Euclid, c.300 BC

Confucius say

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. I have on-line

synchronousinteractions in cyberspace and I masterhigher level thinking skills.

Interaction

Active Learning

High

Order

Thinking

Skills

BP 12: use interactive exercises

Analysis | Synthesis | Evaluation

“Develop a testable model of environmental insult.”

“Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiologic data.”

“Integrate general biological and molecular concepts into public health.”

“Interpret results of statistical analyses found in public health studies.”

ASPH Education Committee  Master’s Degree in Public Health  Core Competency Development Project  Version 2.3  

How?

Cooperative learning Group projects in virtual space

Problem-based learning Treasure hunt | find applicable instances How would you…?

Cases Extended discussions and examples

Simulations Role playing and dialogs

BP 13: use mind/concept mapping software Vehicle for systems thinking Visualizes relationships for visual

thinkers Brain storming Real time collaboration

Examples

Mind Manager from MindJet Visual Understanding Environment –

Tufts XMind Cmap And much, much more…