MPB10 Public Health Education in a Digital World

Monday, March 21, 2016: 4:15 PM-5:15 PM
Salon 6 (Crystal Gateway Marriott)
Summary: Panelists will discuss public health education and how it is meeting the demands of an increasingly digital world. Panelists Mr. Raymond Lum, director of e-learning at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Dr. Stephanie Sutcliffe, instructional designer at Drexel University, and Dr. Laura Magaņa Valladares, academic dean at National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, will address successes and challenges, as well as innovative practices, associated with online learning.
Description: Online education brings with it unique challenges and opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to interact. Instructional design must create an environment for learning by structuring content and creating activities that engage students and facilitate meaningful learning. Instructional designers can work with faculty to help ensure that student learning outcomes, teaching methods, student work or activities, and assessments combine in coherent, manageable, and meaningful ways. However, the centerpiece of the challenge is the alignment and assessment of learning activities to measurable learning outcomes. 

Session panelists will discuss challenges and solutions to fostering interaction among students and faculty and assessing student learning via explicit program mapping and assessment with a master course template that reduces variations of learner success in achieving public health competencies. Finally, panelists will discuss how face-to-face interaction among on-campus learning can be enriched by online learning technologies.

Presenters/Panelists:
Raymond Lum, MPhil, MS, Director of E-Learning, Drexel University School of Public Health , Stephanie Sutcliffe, PhD, Drexel University School of Public Health and Laura Magaņa Valladares, PhD, MS, Dean of Academic Affairs, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (Instituto Nacional de Salúd Publica)
Moderator:
Jorg Westermann, PhD, MA, Dipl.oec. Univ., Dean, Walden University