An Approach to the Development of a Distance Education Module

Abstract

Objective: To develop Modules on Distance Education (DE) for Public Health Midwives (PHMM) on the postpartum care of the mother and the care of the newborn. Methodology: In the preparation of the distance education modules a comprehensive needs assessment was carried out in order to identify the training needs of PHMM. A nominal group discussion was carried out to determine the most important and appropriate study topics for the programme. A partial participatory method was used to develop the curriculum. The distance education modules were prepared by a team of authors adhering to the standards and the principles of distance writing. The modules were pre-tested on PHMM and appropriate changes were made. Results and Conclusions: Two modules were developed on, “Postpartum care of the mother” and “Care of the newborn”. The methodology adopted' was found to be effective in the development of the modules.

Keywords

• distance education (de), continuing education (ce), development of modules