J Korean Soc Med Inform.  2001 Dec;7(4):109-119.

Web-Based Instruction For Public Health Officials-A Prototype Development And Preliminary Evaluation

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  • 1Health and Welfare Training Center, National Institute of Health, Korea.
  • 2Department of Preventive Medicine, Konyang University, Medical College, Korea. chun@kytis.konyang.ac.kr

Abstract

Health and Welfare Training Center of Korean National Institute of Health (KNIH) has developed various education curricula for the officials who involved in the public health or welfare sectors. Still almost all education programs are off-line based. In off-line settings, both the lecturers and the students should come to KNIH from their counties to join the education programs, and it is impossible for the students to review or to re-practice the education contents. From September to October, 2000, we conducted a basic survey to evaluate the information infrastructure, internet use and attitude to the cyber education. The 183 institutions and 548 public health officials answered our questionnaire. The informationa infrastructure of each institution was not satisfactory for distance education via world wide web. The proportion of e-mail user was only about 62% of the answered subjects. But cyber- education was highly needed in both institutions and the surveyed officials. They answered that they would actively participate in the cyber-education(97%). The officials expected that the online education would be effective to acquire information, to increase the chance for participation and to reduce the education cost. The expected barriers of the cyber-education were the overload when they should undergo simultaneously education and working, lack of proper infrastructure, disinterest of their low capability of internet use.

Keyword

Distance Education; Internet; Web-Based Instruction; Public Health Officials; Education and Training for Officials

MeSH Terms

Curriculum
Education
Education, Distance
Electronic Mail
Humans
Internet
Public Health*
Surveys and Questionnaires
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