Posts in Educational
National Public Health Week 2024: New E-learning Tools & Innovations

Happy National Public Health Week to all who celebrate! Today’s daily theme is new tools and innovations, so I’m highlighting four topics or trends that I anticipate will be a big part of the conversation in 2024 and I discuss implications for public health learning and development.

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Beyond Smile Sheets: My Top Two Tips for Evaluating Public Health E-Learning Solutions

As we wrap up 2023, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the effectiveness of our e-learning solutions and make plans for revising and designing new learning experiences in the new year. I help many clients develop evaluation plans (all year long!), so I’m sharing my top two tips for evaluation in today’s post.

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Accessibility Should Not Be an Afterthought: Designing Inclusive Learning Experiences

This week, SOPHE kicked off another National Health Education Week (NHEW). The theme is Advancing Health, Equity and Civil Rights. Over the past year, I have made learning about designing accessible e-learning a professional development priority. Since accessibility is a key component to developing equitable and inclusive learning experiences, it felt like a great fit to write about it during NHEW.

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How Health Education and Instructional Design Align: Reflections for National Health Education Week

In honor of National Health Education Week 2021, I thought it would be fun to visit selected responsibilities and competencies for health education specialists (2020) and make connections with instructional design. This is definitely not an exhaustive list of where they overlap, but these are some of my favorites!

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Start With An E-Learning Needs Analysis By Asking These Four Questions

“If you don’t know why a performance issue exists, you run the risk of creating a training solution for a non-training problem.”—Tim Slade

E-learning and training cannot single handedly overcome challenges like under resourced projects, toxic work environments, poor leadership, and low morale.

Your needs analysis will help you figure out if a performance issue exists and why it exists.

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