Enhancing Online Learning for Public Health Graduate Students

Metacognition for Enhancing Online Learning

The existing research in the field of traditional didactics shows that students who have good metacognitive skills often achieve better scholastic results. Therefore, it seems that students who are aware of their cognitive processes and are able to self-monitor their learning activities tackle didactic tasks with greater success. The chapter presents an analysis of studies regarding application...

Mentoring online graduate students: partners in scholarship

Mentoring graduate students toward scholarly research and writing activities has become an important area of focus for faculty at the Centre for Nursing and Health Studies at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. With an emphasis on teaching excellence, instructors seek out and create experiences to involve graduate students in their own programme of research and publication. However, despit...

Adapting online learning for Canada's Northern public health workforce

BACKGROUND Canada's North is a diverse, sparsely populated land, where inequalities and public health issues are evident, particularly for Aboriginal people. The Northern public health workforce is a unique mix of professional and paraprofessional workers. Few have formal public health education. From 2009 to 2012, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) collaborated with a Northern Advisory ...

Graduate Program in Public Health

Investigating university students' views on online learning

Online learning is a concept that has received attention due to new technologies in the field of education; But today, due to the sudden spread of the corona virus, online learning has become common, so that most of the higher education institutions organize online learning courses. However, for many students, especially new undergraduate students who are used to the traditional learning enviro...