Structuring Learning and Instructional Design in the Health Sciences

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This course is designed to train interested faculty and graduate students in the Health Sciences, with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for systematic planning of instruction in the Health Sciences context. The students are provided with the op portunity to develop an analytical approach to pedagogical decision - making related to the process of designing instruction. The essential aspects basic to the teaching process and to the structuring of learning will be studied in an analytical way. The cou rse will include the study of systematic planning of instruction such as: selection and construction of learning objectives; selection and organization of content to be taught; selection of educational strategies and the design of instructional activities which promote construction of knowledge and critical thinking in the students; selection of resources, and design of instructional evaluation. Current topics related to the educational process will also be discussed.