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James A. Wolff, MD, MPH, MAT, Management Sciences for Health, Boston University School of Public Health and Boston University School of Public Health, 784 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 01239, 617-250-9277, jwolff@msh.org

This paper will review three different web-based professional development programs; MSH's Virtual Leadership Development Program (VLDP), USAID's Global Health E-learning Program, and the Moroccan International Virtual Conference on Safe Motherhood hosted by the Moroccan Ministry of Health. Although these three programs provide very different web-based learning environments, each provides to some extent the essential elements identified for effective computer based learning by Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000)*. Their model, which they call a model of community inquiry, has three elements essential to the educational transaction: cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence. This paper will present the learning objectives and the design of each program and explore the different ways that these programs set climate, selected content, and created structure, process, and discourse to achieve Garrison's three elements of effective web-based education.

*Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000). Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education, 2(2-3), 87-105.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how program design can set climate and create the structure, process and discourse needed to achieve cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence in web-based training programs.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation