In October of 2017, Dr. Lynn Blevins was a guest speaker in out Teaching Effectively Online “live” seminar. She shared some of her authentic and relevant assessments she uses to foster student motivation. Since it ties so closely to the 7 principles of effective education, faculty presence, student motivation and retention, we decided to share …
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The following was a general white paper written as a result of gathering information about the use of ePortfolios in Public Health. This was early thinking in how we could tie in the applied practice experience, career coaching, volunteer experience and document how students meet the public health competencies throughout the PH program. E …
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As we work to build more active learning into our online classes this article shares some inspiring ideas. http://commons.suny.edu/cotehub/2018/06/04/activelearning/
In our Public Health Survey course we adapted one of the writing assignments from the Epidemiology Workplace Writing Repository. Below is the description of the Article Summary Discussion Assignment. This took place on the discussion board on the topic of Environmental Public Health. The purpose of this discussion activity is twofold, fist to introduce you …
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This is an article that UVM PH librarian, Donna O’Malley shared with the PH team and faculty. https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pubmed/fdy011/4825181?redirectedFrom=fulltext The article describes the Epidemiology Workplace Writing Repository which is a good resource for sparking ideas. We have used one of the activities describe in a public health survey course.