Co-Building a Shared
Online Public Health Course for Kansas
Poster Session
Learning Times / International Online Conference (IOC)
2010
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Co-Building a Shared Online Public Health Course for Kansas
Poster Session Description
 This collectively built and modularized “Intro to Public Health”
project involved the virtually mediated work of three colleges and
a university in Kansas. This will describe the uses of a stylebook
and the standards-setting early on to guide the quality build and to
ensure legal compliance for intellectual property and accessibility
guidelines. This also shows the evolution of the 7 modules and the
creation of lecture-based contents and videotaped interviews;
customized and local assignments; opportunities for interactivity,
and other quality-building aspects. This will also focus on the
creation of both real-life public health cases and interactive
fictional public health mysteries to enhance student learning. This
addresses the technological challenges in the uses of several
learning / course management systems to deploy the contents for
use by different instructors at various institutions of higher
learning.
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Local Virtual Collaboration
 K-State, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City
Kansas Community College, and Dodge City Community
College
 Strategic mix of F2F meetings (during critical decision
junctures) and several Web conferencing meetings
 Use of Axio Learning™ as a shared virtual workspace, with
equal access to all functionalities, information, and
technologies
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A Project Stylebook
 Goals list of project outcomes and deadlines
 Roles definitions and contact information
 To-still Consider: instructor handbook, tangibles, e-book,
course branding (“Pathways to Public Health” sequence)
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A Project Stylebook (cont.)
 Definition of team workflow
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A Project Stylebook (cont.)
 Modular “Specs” Definition: Hours of learning per
module, learning types (lectures, assignments, assessments,
interactivity, and learning activities)
 Definitions: Development and authoring technologies
(software versions / outputs) and uniform digital file types
 Granularity of Learning Objects: Granularity of digital
learning objects (slideshows, video lengths, and others)
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Early Collective Standards Setting
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Intellectual Property
Copyright / intellectual property / trademark / patents /
trade secrets
Use either open-source or self-created contents
Maintain provenance records of all digital contents
Respect trademarks and label appropriately; register used
marks
Media releases for videotaped interviews
Co-Building a Shared Online Public Health Course for Kansas
Early Collective Standards Setting
(cont.)
Accessibility
 Accessibility guidelines [universal file types; screen readable
text documents—not as digital images; tags for document
structure and mark-up; clear, simple English; the labeling of
informational graphics; the transcription of audio and video;
accessible PowerPoint™ slideshows; accessible use of color;
summarizing and labeling of data tables; proper planning of
live online events*, and user control of automations and
sequenced actions] (*not actually used)
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Early Collective Standards Setting
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Quality Matters™ Rubric Guidelines
Course Overview and Introduction
Learning Objectives
Assessment and Measurement
Resources and Materials
Learner Engagement
Course Technology
Learner Support
Accessibility
Co-Building a Shared Online Public Health Course for Kansas
Early Collective Standards Setting
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Work Processes
Work project documentation / record-keeping
Research citation (APA citation guidelines)
File naming protocols
Large group decision-making junctures
Co-Building a Shared Online Public Health Course for Kansas
7 Modules
 Module 1: Overview and Basic Principles
 Module 2: Epidemiological Principles
 Module 3: Population Health Tools
 Module 4: Disease and Disability: Determinants, Burdens,
and Interventions
 Module 5: Healthcare and Public Health Systems (Public
Health Administration)
 Module 6: Special Topic Areas (One Health; Infectious
Disease / Zoonoses; Food Safety, Security, and Defense;
Public Health Nutrition and Physical Activity)
 Module 7: Careers and Future Directions in Public Health
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7 Modules (cont.)
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Modular Features
Developmental sequence (foundational to complex)
Topic-based modules
Standard contents (directions, lectures, assignments,
activities, interactivity, and assessments)
Segues between modules
Consistent module-based look-and-feel
Elimination of overlap of information contents
Co-Building a Shared Online Public Health Course for Kansas
A Generic Syllabus
 A “generic syllabus” offers all basic information about the
course (course description, learning objectives, directions for
each module, policies, and others)
 A generic syllabus also has highlighted sections which need to
be defined to customize the syllabus to a particular
institution of higher education and term
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Multimedia Contents
 Audio slideshows (transcribed) and lecture videos
 Transcribed videos (interviews)
 Public health terminology flashcards
 Downloadables (transcripts, references, study guides, and
others)
 Interactive public health mysteries
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Public Health Work-based Videos
 Agricultural biosecurity
 Safe food handling
 Food safety and security (in a global trade context)
 Lab biosafety
 The needs of older adults
 Human-animal bond in human health
 Public health nursing
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Snippets on YouTube™
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0bTR08IKTQ
(Dr. Marty Vanier)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-JUHl2EomQ
(Dr. Ingrid Garrison)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfVFrzkNemQ
(Dr. Douglas Powell)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpNe8uBXRWk
(Dr. Dan Richardson)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDoPD21ya8g
(Mylissia Stukey)
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Customizable and Localized
Assignments
 Fieldtrips to local zoos, departments of public health, water
treatment facilities, public health clinics, and / or the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) local office
 A customizable term research paper
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Learner Interactivity
 Discussion questions (asynchronous postings to the Message
Board) for shared insights and discussions
 Variety of topics for interaction: fast food consumption,
chronic diseases, H1N1 outbreak, public health policies,
family disaster plans, soda machines in schools cases, foodrelated illnesses, field trip experiences, and website
evaluations
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“One Health” Cases
 Melamine Case Study
 Avian Flu Case Study
 E-Coli in Spinach Outbreak
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Public Health Mysteries
 Mystery at Standing Water (West Nile)
 Mystery at a Feedlot (FMD)
 Mystery in the Air (SARS)
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Public Health Mysteries (cont.)
 Automated, interactive
 “Clean,” legal, and accessible builds
 Opt-in advisement from experts: an epidemiologist, a food
scientist, a nutritionist, and an agro-defense / crisis
management expert
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Public Health Mysteries (cont.)
 Factual debriefings at the ends of each fictional mystery case
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E-Learning Path / Trajectory
 Lectures
 Textbook readings
 Multiple-choice quizzes (automated, with limited feedback)
 Field trips
 A cumulative research paper (with jigsaw sharing)
 “Study guides” designed around the modular contents and the
related assessments
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Deployment to L/CMSes
 Axio Learning™ / K-State Online
 ANGEL
 E-College
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Deployment to L/CMSes (cont.)
 Highly variant back-end functionalities for learning / course
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management systems (L/CMSes)
Different looks-and-feels for branding
Different automated assessment functions
Embedded video player on one
The building of “pristine” master courses for back-up and the
integration of future resources
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Shared Instruction
 A trial-run of the course contents for a summer residency
program at K-State in Summer 2009
 “Intro to Public Health” taught at select two campuses in Fall
2009
 “Intro to Public Health” taught at all four partner institutions
of higher education in Spring 2010
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Post-Build
 Launch of the One Health
Kansas site
 Publicity launches through
print brochures and
presentations
 Academic publications
 Course assessment by outside
body
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Lessons Learned
 Maximize local virtual teaming by meeting F2F at strategic
decision junctures
 Collaboratively define project standards to meet critical
intellectual property, accessibility, and quality e-learning
guidelines (and continue evolving the stylebook as the team
learns and evolves the work)
 Build to high quality standards from the beginning to save on
retrofitting and other challenges later on
 Use templates and sample work (slideshows, templates, and
videos) to set standards for the work
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Lessons Learned (cont.)
 Create interchangeable contents for broader and more
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portable usage
Offer unfettered and equal access and power to all team
members using the collaborative virtual work site
Use the group’s collective professional standards and
judgment as thresholds for each other’s work
Build professional relationships for the long-term future and
not just the single course build
Collaborate; collaborate; collaborate!
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Conclusion and Contact Information
Dr. Shalin Hai-Jew
iTAC
212 P Hale Library
K-State
785-532-5262 (work)
shalin@k-state.edu
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