Project

The Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) has well documented tradition of introducing, applying and evaluating new didactic and educational concepts in interdisciplinary training/teaching programs.
 

The goal of this proposal is to develop WEB-based training, learning and virtual interactive learning (distant-learning) complementing traditional approaches.
The project develops software tools and modules in collaboration and the responsibility of the Foundation NeoCortex for Interactive Media (University of Basel) in the fields of Tropical Medicine, Diagnostic Parasitology, Epidemiology, Public and International Health.
Three partner universities (Basel, Zurich, Lausanne) will collaborate in the production of contents for these modules by integrating these basic subjects.
These WEB-based modules will allow faculties to integrate WEB-based modules individually into local curricula.
The project will establish, introduce, provide and evaluate a series of WEB-based interactive learning modules, which can be used at the national and international level, based on the concepts of problem based learning.
The main purpose of this project is the development of a system of software-tools for the implementation of learning modules for international health issues, particularly and initially in the fields of (1) tropical medicine, (2) diagnostics in parasitology, (3) epidemiology, (4) public and international health.

The project TropEduWeb will:

Establish a series of specific learning modules for undergraduate, graduate and partly also post-graduate students in medicine, biology and epidemiology that are tailored to the needs and levels of the students.
Introduce a new series of module on interactive web-based learning in the universities of Basel, Zurich and Lausanne based on case studies and following the didactic concept of PBL.
Provide a series of learning modules that stimulate learners into assessing the health and biomedical problems at the molecular, clinical and population level.
Generate learning modules that can also be used at the international level in the teaching of tropical medicine and public health, epidemiology and parasitology.
Comparatively evaluate these modules with regard to feasibility of a nation-wide production and application of comparable modules to cover the complete basics of the topics.