The Development and Evaluation of Web-based Healthy Weight Reduction Curriculum for High School Students in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Jia-Ching Wei, 魏嘉慶
• Other Authors: Chien Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07530799991815705888

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 理學院網路學習碩士在職專班 === 93 === In order to keep up with the coming information era, it is an urgent task for medical society to integrate information technology into health education. The purpose of this study is to apply transtheoretical model, situated problem-based learning (SPBL) strategy, the ARCS motivation model and e-learning environment to design and develop on-line healthy weight reduction curriculum and website for adolescent. According to the literature analysis, the definition of Healthy Weight Reduction was provided and the curriculum was designed accordingly. The curriculum proposed is a hybrid of on-line and face-to-face styles. This study mapped out ten units in the Web site to introduce healthy weight reduction program to high school students. These units include: (1) School history building, (2)Health care center, (3)Restaurant, (4)Welfare society, (5)The sports ground, (6)Bulletin Board System (BBS) for postings, (7)The bulletin board, (8) Internet Resources, (9) My diary, and (10) Contacting with us. When designing the curriculum, the factors were considered as following: (1) anonymity help to reduce the embarrassment of face-to-face situations, (2) high interactivity to enhance the interaction between learners and medical staff, (3) effectiveness and efficiency due to the professional opinions from medial experts directly, (4) multimedia presentation to demonstrate multi-modality information, (5) learner-center design to promote active learning, and (6) online community to help cooperative learning. During the development stage of the curriculum and the website, factors influencing learning, such as the characteristics of puberty, was also considered. This curriculum also encourages students to reflect on their eating behaviors and body activities throughout the whole learning period. In other words, the online learning curriculum developed in this study not only provides students updated information on healthy weight reduction, but also help them cultivate lifelong weight-control attitudes and behaviors. After evaluated by the experts, focus group and adolescent users, it is found that the curriculum achieved its set goals. In addition, the design of the computer-human interface met the usability design guidelines, and helped motivate students’ learning. By assisting adolescents to construct correct concept of diet, and to conduct healthy weight reduction behavior with the Internet technology, it is concluded that the curriculum developed in this study could become an on-line curriculum model for future health education.