Planning and Managing Distance Education for Public Health Course

By Dr. Roy Rillera Marzo MD MPH

The advancement of distance education and the progressive development of online courses by both traditional and distance education institutions have heightened many inquiries regarding the costs of online learning compared to both face-to-face teaching and other approaches to distance education. Academic leaders, researchers, and practitioners share their expertise in this book on how to maintain quality management with quality learning. Subjects covered include needs assessment and readiness assessment, networked/distance teaching and learning, infrastructure, financial requirements, student-support plan, management organization and monitoring and evaluation.

This book is an ideal reference source for educators, academicians, graduate students, and researchers who are interested in implementing distance education to effectively manage an online-learning program.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Jan 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543744675

Dr. Roy Rillera Marzo MD MPH

Dr. Roy Rillera Marzo, MD, DPCOM, MPH, FPH, FOM, PGCTM is an Associate Professor in Texila American University and Pole Universitaire Euclide under United Nations Treaty Series. He is also the Program Academic Head, Clinical Science Division and Deputy Head in Medical Curriculum and Assessment in Asia Metropolitan University. Born in a family of academicians, he was interested in science since childhood and grew up to receive Doctor of Medicine and Master in Public Health in Saint Louis University, Philippines where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Dr. Roy is now pursuing his Master in Distance Education in University of the Philippines and Ph.D. in Education in Asia E University in Malaysia.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Chapter 1     Needs Assessment And Readiness Assessment

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Chapter 2     Networked Teaching And Learning

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Chapter 3     Infrastructure

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Chapter 4     Financial Requirements

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Chapter 5     Student Support Plan

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Chapter 6     Management Organization

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Chapter 7     Monitoring and Evaluation

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Executive Summary

Networked learning is the process of creating and sustaining connections with people and information, and collaborating in such a way as to increase each other’s learning. Knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore, learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks (Seimens, 2011). How those connections are formed and maintained is the focus of this planning and managing networked learning for my proposed project in public health course.

Chapter 1 sets the tone for the report by assessing need and readiness of the proposed public health course. Assessing need and readiness is about learning and understanding what I have and what I do not have and what do I need for the proposed networked learning. This chapter discusses readiness assessment and its components needs assessment and its functionality along with a readiness assessment and identify the different aspects to look into for the assessment.

Chapter 2 explores how networked teaching and learning are going to take place in my public health course. So many changes are happening in education that it becomes difficult to pick out which trend, which technology, which pedagogy and which policy would benefit and suit my public health course the best. This chapter outlined the different teaching approaches, characterize different learning activities, identify learning spaces, and distinguish different technologies that can be used to enhance networked learning such as social networking, mobile learning, web conferencing and much more.

Infrastructure is third aspect of planning and managing networked learning considered in Chapter 3. Technological revolution brought on by the use of electronic media and information technologies has become ubiquitous, thus, it is very important that infrastructure must be in place to support these types of technologies, and to support learners, educators, and administrators. This chapter discusses the different elements that I need in my proposed project in the area of ICT infrastructures such as access