4078.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM |
Oral |
Progressive pedagogy session: ": Distance Education - Promise or Peril?... A Critical Analysis" |
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| This session will critically examine the distance education movement sweeping across higher education- examining both its potential for advancing and impeding social justice.
Abstracts are invited covering the following range of topics:
~ Does the distance education movement enhance or impede our ability to reach traditionally disenfranchised groups?
~ Strategies for engaging public health students in discussion and active learning through web based courses or through the integration of web based and on-site educational experiences.
~ A look at the political economy of distance education - examining the economic motives and political contexts which have enabled distance education to take such strong hold in the academy.
~ Techniques for overcoming the perils wrought by technologically mediating an inherently human interaction.
Abstracts from students are welcome and encouraged!
This session will be in Tuesday morning 8:30 to 10:00 am APHA time slot. |
| Learning Objectives: "At the conclusion of the session, the participant in this session will be able to:
1.List advantages and disadvantages of web-based instruction for progressive public health pedagogy
2.Articulate the political economy of distance learning
3. Describe strategies for developing progressive and engaging web-based learning courses for public health" |
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. |
| 8:30 AM | | Distance education - promise or peril? A critical analysis of web-based instruction and its contribution to progressive pedagogy
Babette J. Neuberger, JD, MPH |
| Organized by: | Spirit of 1848 Caucus |
| Endorsed by: | Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA; Epidemiology; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus of Public Health Workers; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus |
| CE Credits: | Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work |
