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. Through a variety of activities students learn how to assess the teaching-learning environment, develop a teaching plan, apply specific teaching strategies and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. Students apply teaching and learning concepts, theories and principles through the completion of a teaching project. Critical assessment of teaching resources is also a component of HLST 320. By the completion of this course students have a beginning understanding of the complexities and realities of health teaching from a personal and theoretical perspective.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of HLST 320, the student will achieve or exceed the following learning outcomes:

• Critically assess teaching-learning resources;
• Apply the teaching-learning process to a health-related situation in a systematic manner that reflects the principles of teaching and learning presented in this course; and
• Describe the complexities and realities of health teaching from a personal and theoretical perspective.

Outline

• Unit 1: Health Teaching
• Unit 2: Theories of Learning and Motivation
• Unit 3: Learning Styles and Teaching Locations
• Unit 4: Writing Educational Objectives: Domains of Learning
• Unit 5: Instructional Design: Assessment
• Unit 6: Instructional Design: Planning
• Unit 7: Instructional Design: Implementation
• Unit 8: Instructional Design: Evaluation

Evaluation

To receive credit for HLST 320, students must complete all of the required assignments and achieve a composite grade of at least “C-” (60 percent) and pass the personal assessment exercise. All papers submitted must follow the guidelines of the APA Publication Manual (6^th ed.) (2010).

The assignments and weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

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