Environmental Health and Public Health Workforce Capacity: A Learning Management System Model

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Plotkin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Management System ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
System Model ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Workforce Capacity ◽  
Learning Management

scholarly journals Environmental Health Workforce – Essential for Interdisciplinary Solutions to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Ryan ◽  
Raymond Swienton ◽  
Curt Harris ◽  
James J. James
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mass Gatherings ◽  
Response And Recovery

ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary public health solutions are vital for an effective coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response and recovery. However, there is often a lack of awareness and understanding of the environmental health workforce connections and capabilities. In the United States, this is a foundational function of health departments and is the second largest public health workforce. The primary role is to protect the public from exposures to environmental hazards, disasters, and disease outbreaks. More specifically, this includes addressing risks relating to sanitation, drinking water, food safety, vector control, and mass gatherings. This profession is also recognized in the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019. Despite this, the profession is often not considered an essential service. Rapid integration into COVID-19 activities can easily occur as most are government employees and experienced working in complex and stressful situations. This role, for example, could include working with leaders, businesses, workplaces, and churches to safely reopen, and inspections to inform, educate, and empower employers, employees, and the public on safe actions. There is now the legislative support, evidence and a window of opportunity to truly enable interdisciplinary public health solutions by mobilizing the environmental health workforce to support COVID-19 response, recovery, and resilience activities.

Modified Mnet for Performance Improvement in Moodle Learning Management System

2015 ◽  
Vol 764-765 ◽  
pp. 1351-1355
Author(s):  
Jin Long Wang ◽  
Shu Ju Chueh ◽  
Wen Chu Kuo ◽  
Yi Ying Lin
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Management System ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
System Stability ◽  
System Model ◽  
Front End ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
Database Servers

Moodle is one of the most popular Learning Management System (LMS) in the world. However, this kind of system always suffer the burden of large amount of user connections in a short period of time, such that the front end web servers and the rear end database servers became the bottleneck of the whole system. In the LMS system, the most challenges are to provide the rapid response, the system stability, the system flexibility, the system scalability, and the fault tolerance. Currently, the problems of system overloading are solved by the load balancing scheme, which still have a lot of limitations. In this paper, the proposed scheme, based on the load balancing scheme, combines the mercy of Moodle network scheme and the separate of database in order to improve the performance both on the level of systems and applications for the situation of large amount users. From the performance evaluation, the proposed scheme is superior to the existing system model.

Jordan Learning Analytics Management Systems Innovation (Jordanian Universities)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdeleh Bassam Al Amoush ◽  
Kamaljeet Sandhu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
Management System ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
System Model ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Learning Management

Learning management systems (LMS's) are a necessary tool and well suited as earning tools and activities in higher education. However, each institute has a different LMS tool that allows to users (management, instructors and students) to use it for a daily activity. This article investigates the main factors for the acceptance of LMS at Jordanian universities. Is also presents a new LMS model for Jordanian context called Learning Management System Model (JLMS). This approach is used to identify important factors that could or do affect the acceptance of using an LMS at Jordanian universities.

Exploring lecturer and student perceptions and use of a learning management system in a postgraduate public health environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Kite ◽  
Timothy E Schlub ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Silvia Choi ◽  
Sarah Craske ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Management System ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Management

Learning management systems have become a key component of teaching and learning in higher education. However, the evidence on the importance of learning management systems to learning is still in its infancy. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the role that the Canvas learning management system played in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. To do this, we conducted interviews with lecturers ( n = 9) and postgraduate coursework students ( n = 7) from the School during Semester 2, 2018. We analysed the interviews thematically, identifying one overarching theme: that Canvas is predominantly used and perceived as an information repository by teaching academics and students. This means that lecturers place course materials on the learning management system for students to use and are making limited use of other, more interactive features of the learning management system, despite interaction being seen as essential to effective teaching and learning. This use of Canvas was explained by two factors: (1) face-to-face learning is perceived as superior to online learning and (2) the existence of skill and capacity barriers that hinder improved online teaching and learning practice, even where professional development opportunities exist for lecturers. We argue that this represents suboptimal use of a learning management system, especially when online learning is likely to become more significant in the coming years. To address this issue, we recommend employing and appropriately resourcing educational designers within higher education settings. These specialists can aid lecturers in the creation of genuinely interactive online environments so that the benefits of online teaching and learning can be fully realised.

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