Many individuals practicing injury control have not received specific training for their work, in large part because of a scarcity of training opportunities. Consistent with its mission of "raising the health status of American Indian and Alaska Native people to the highest possible level," the Indian Health Service (IHS) created an innovative training program for federal and tribal employees. ...

Distance education courses have been offered by the University of Guam for the past ten years, however there were no programs developed for the students of the region. In 1994, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences began teaching courses over PEACESAT (Pan Pacific Education and Communications Experiment by Satellite) every semester. The first course was written to serve Palau, the Commonwe...

BACKGROUND Being informed of new methods of teaching and comparing their outcome help teachers use more effective and efficient methods in developing and implementing new training courses. The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of epidemiology learning software on learning epidemiology courses. METHODS This quasi-experimental study included 101 nursing and midwifery students taking...

Most online courses include training assignments and offer various forms of tests to evaluate the students’ performance. Some courses, in particular computer sciences courses, require elaborate hands-on training experiences. The NeOS Framework presented in this paper proposes an e-learning tool developed supporting in particular hands-on training through programming exercises. The user locally ...

Background Growing demand for Global Health (GH) training and the internationalisation of education requires innovative approaches to training. Blended learning (BL, a form of e-learning combining face-to-face or real-time interaction with computer-assisted learning) is a promising approach for increasing GH research capacity in low- to middle-income countries. Implementing BL, however, require...

To provide effective support for education and training of U-City manpower, it is necessary to analyze its demand and develop the appropriate education course. Development of education courses requires reviewing the cases of other industries, understanding the demands of each educatees, developing the education courses in detail, and making the standard teaching materials. Therefore, this study...

The purpose of this paper is to consider the introduction of online courses to replace the current classroom-based staff training. The current training is practical, and must be completed before access to the financial computer system is authorized. The long term objective is to measure the efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the training, and to establish whether a transfer of knowledge ...