Health Studies (HLST) 320

Overview

HLST 320 Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals introduces the principles and theories of teaching and learning within a health context. Using a variety of activities you will learn how to assess the teaching-learning environment, develop a teaching plan, apply specific teaching strategies, and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. By the completion of this course you will begin to understand the complexities and realities of health teaching from a personal and theoretical perspective.

Outline

HLST 320 Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals:

• Unit 1 Introduction to Teaching and Learning in the Health Professions
• Unit 2 Teaching in the Health Professions
• Unit 3 Theories of Teaching and Learning
• Unit 4 Teaching–Learning Process: Determinants of Learning
• Unit 5 Teaching–Learning Process: Assessing Learning Needs
• Unit 6 Teaching–Learning Process: Planning and Delivering Education
• Unit 7 Teaching–Learning Process: Evaluating & Reflecting

This is an asynchronous course that is completed in 16 weeks. The course units are organized in sections to support you in completing the required assignments, which provide evidence of you having met the course learning outcome requirements.

Learning outcomes

• Justify a personal teaching philosophy, based on contemporary theories and evidence.
• Assess contextual factors that influence teaching and learning.
• Demonstrate a collaborative, person-centred teaching–learning process.
• Create an evaluation of the teaching–learning process.

Evaluation

To receive credit for HLST 320: Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals students must complete and submit all the required assignments and achieve an overall composite grade of at least C- (60 percent).  All submitted assignments must follow the current edition of the APA Publication Manual.

The assignments and weighting of composite grades are as follows:

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University’s online Calendar.

Materials

Other Materials

The HLST320 Study Guide and all course learning resources are imbedded within the learning activities found in each unit.

The learning activities are supported with open source online resources (sometimes called Open Educational Resources [OER]), links to other online multi-media resources, and electronic references from the AU library

Important links

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