Last News
21/Dec/2011
During the last months of 2011 the Regional Team of Virtual Campus of Public Health has successfully completed the update of its Regional Nodes and countries, as well as virtual classrooms that are inoperation.
The Nodes of VCPH use "Drupal" as a means of Content Management System in their latest versions 7.8, 7.9 and 7.10
21/Dec/2011
During the year 2011 will be held 29 regional courses in the Virtual Campus of Public Health, of which 19 corresponded to the mode tutorial and 10 with self-learning. All courses were also in Spanish language and 7 courses on English.
Preliminary data indicate that more than 1500 participants completed the educational process successfully.
21/Dec/2011
Just published an interview with Dr. Jardines in the VCPH-Brazil Node, on the contribution of that country to the "Open Educational Resources" Network Virtual Campus of Public Health.
This interview was conducted in the framework of the International Seminar on Open Access to Knowledge inthe headquarters of the National School of Public Health "Sergio Arouca" Fiocruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
09/Dec/2011
Message from the Director of the Pan American Health Organization
Mensaje de la Directora de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud
07/Dec/2011
In the framework of the VII International Congress of Public Health 2011 "The holistic view of health as a challenge in the action strategies in Public Health" held from 23 to 25 November 2011 in the city of Cordoba, the transfer was made Node Coordination Argentina Virtual Campus from FLACSO to the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Córdoba.
18/Nov/2011
Under the I Regional Forum on Human Resources for Health and Indigenous Peoples "The Challenge of Interculturalism" will be held on November 22, 2011 Official Launch of New Regional Portal Virtual Campusof Public Health in Panama City.
18/Nov/2011
A joint initiative of the Pan American Health Organization, the Ministry of Health Canada, the Indigenous Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Panama, is held the First Regional Forum for Health HumanResources and Indigenous Peoples "the Challenge of Multiculturalism" in the Hotel ElPanama in Panama City, 21 to November 23, 2011.
16/Nov/2011
International collaboration realizes numerous initiatives to promote and strengthen the e-learning. The question is: Is the user able to convey the potential of the new reality?, Or actually seeing a dispersion of efforts to show us in a sea of ??noise coming from different places. Also, how does the development of new teaching techniques can be boosted withthe exchange of experiences leading speakers and institutions in each of these initiatives?
28/Oct/2011
What in your opinion the most interesting feature or trend in online education these days?
28/Oct/2011
The Knowledge Society tends to democratize knowledge. Free licensing movements, where the property is no longer central, but it created is accessible to the community, proliferate today. LEARNING REVIEW has investigated how this trend applies to educational resources.