Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education & Training Institute in partnership with Confederation College, Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre, and Northern Ontario School of Medicine, will be developing chemistry digital learning objects to help support web based learning for First Nations students in the Pre Health Sciences program.

The “Improving Student’s Pre Health Sciences Success through Web based Learning” project will embrace a visual based chemistry course site that will be designed in response to the unique learning needs of the people of Nishnawbe Aski that will facilitate and increase greater student success in the Pre Health Sciences. This unique new approach would assist with both student comprehension and endeavour to make the course material more interesting through the use of interactive digital learning objects along with some 3D modeling and animation. This innovation would also incorporate culturally relevant teaching and learning models.

The project commenced April 2009 and will end December 2009.  Funding for the project was provided by the Aboriginal Health Human Resources Initiative (AHHRI).

To learn more about the project please visit the project website:

http://blog.oshki.ca/phs