Learning environment

The learning platform in Touch with Health, developed within the project PAEDIMED, offers a large variety of learning and teaching activities in the field of health promotion for students and multipliers.

In Touch with Health is a Blended Learning Scenario for adolescents on the subjects of skin health (acne, eczema, sun protection) and protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It has been developed for the use in classroom teaching as well as in extracurricular projects.

The learning environment is based on the results of a thorough needs and contextual analysis. This analysis refers to the latest scientific findings in the involved disciplines (Medicine, Educational Science), the specific needs of the target group and the local conditions in the involved educational institutions.

Please find here the didactic framework

Starting from the results of this analysis, a learning environment has been created which offers a maximum of flexibility and includes the following aspects: team learning, self guided learning, modular structure, interactive and narrative elements, various complexity levels and a large choice of learning and teaching activities.

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LEARNING AREA for students: There is a students’ area offering learning material for home study and classroom activities. Narrative and multimedia elements address the learner on an emotional level. Learning texts provide interesting information.

The subject matters are imbedded in audio stories whose main characters are teenagers who have already made some personal experiences with acne, sunburn etc.

A short film about HIV, an online quiz around acne and a virtual sun bath encourage the teenagers to engage actively with their (skin) health.

INSTRUCTIONAL AREA for multipliers: multipliers can plan their activities according to their needs. They are provided with material, allowing them to further their knowledge, and a large number of proposals for learning activities – from paper pencil stories to the use of multimedia.

Multipliers will find a wide choice of health educational activities. This choice ranges from short instructional units without media use (e.g. working sheets) to projects that are complex in terms of content, time and media use (e.g.: self-created multimedia campaigns on health promotion).