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Designing Meaningful Health Education Materials: Rewards and Challenges Lois Goldsworthy Web Course Developer Distance Education University of Waterloo [email protected]

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Designing Meaningful Health Education Materials:

Rewards and Challenges

Lois Goldsworthy

Web Course Developer

Distance Education

University of Waterloo

[email protected]

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DE Online Course Design Process

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MAREP Course Design Process

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The MAREP Dementia Care Education Series

Intended to fill a need for more, and more accurate, information about Dementia

Intended audience very broad (e.g. family members to health professionals)

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Challenges

Project management (e.g. time lines, scope creep, etc.)

Understanding of the development process Audience Integrating meaningful assessment

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Project Management

Challenges: Time lines Scope creep Number of stakeholders Revision process Prototyping Copyright

Lessons learned: Allow more time before

content development begins for curriculum development and ID

Storyboarding!

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Understanding the eLearning Development Process

Challenges: Communication Learning curve for

SMEs Technical abilities

Lessons learned:

From: Patti Shank, PhD, Avoiding Assessment Mistakes that Compromise Competence and Quality. http://www.elearningguild.com

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Audience Analysis

Challenges: Broad Audience No assumptions could

be made regarding educational level or technical ability

Lessons learned: Detailed audience

analysis Audience segregation Analyse final product

for literacy with intended audience in mind

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Integrating Meaningful Assessment

Challenges: How will the intended

audience use the information?

Lessons learned: Detailed audience

analysis Appropriate choices for

instruction and assessment reflective of the audience’s application of the information

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Design Strengths

Extensive content Materials provided to

suit a variety of learning styles

Some built in redundancy to promote deeper learning

Activities/reflective exercises/resources

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Contact Information

Lois GoldsworthyWeb Development Distance Education

University of [email protected]

The Murray Alzheimer Research and Education ProgramRBJ Schlegel - UW Research Institute for Aging

University of Waterloo(519) 888-4567 x6880

http://marep.uwaterloo.ca/