Web Based Learning for Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response:

• http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/bldvent/2002-139.html CDC, NIOSH Guidance for Protecting Building Environment from Airborne Chemical, Biological and Radiological Attacks.
• http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/ John Hopkins University, Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies.
• http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/nltn/nltn_cal.asp CDC  Division of Laboratory Systems, NLTN Calendar of Laboratory Training Events.
• http://www.apic.org/bioterror/ Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.
• http://www.astho.org/phiip/responds.html Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, ASTHO Responds to Terrorism
• http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/PHTN//calendar.asp CDC's Public Health Training Network
• http://www.bioterrorism.slu.edu Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections, Saint Louis University School of Public Health
• http://terrorism.spjc.edu St. Petersburg College, National Terrorism Preparedness Institute.
• http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/calendar Kaisernetwork Healthcast Schedule.
• http://www.trainingfinder.org  Public Health Foundation, Training Finder.
• http://www.hrsa.gov/bioterrorism.htm HRSA, Bioterrorism Website
• http://www.bioterrorism.uab.edu/ Rare Infection and Potential Bioterrorist Agents
• http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/smallpox/slideset/  Small Pox Slides ( WHO)
• http://www.sgcs.gov.on.ca/english/public/emoguide/emo.html Ontario Ministry of Public Safety and Security, Emergency Planning
• http://www.acr.org/departments/educ/disaster_prep/disaster-planning.pdf Radiological Terrorism, American College of Radiology
• http://www.cbiac.apgea.army.mil/ Chemical and Biological Information Analysis Center
• http://www.bt.cdc.gov/DocumentsApp/Smallpox/RPG/index.asp  CDC Interim Smallpox Response Plan and Guideline 
• http://www.cdc.gov/nip/ National Immunization Program
• http://www.thecommunityguide.org/home_f.html  Guide To Community Prevention Services
• http://www.cdc.gov/nip/ed/smallpox-trg/clinician-should-know/default.htm Smallpox 
• http://ccc.apgea.army.mil/reference_materials/reference.asp Chemical Casualty Care Division   (US Army)
• http://www.bio-defense.org/  BioDefens Mobilization Conference and Exhibition, Pennsylvania

Web Based Learning 

• www.grantwriters.com does get one to a site where you can sign up for web-based courses on grant writing and for workshops, etc
• http://www.asph.org/aa_section.cfm/20/147  Association of School of Public Health, Technology Watch.
• If you are feeling the need to strengthen your statistics skills you can do that on the Internet. If you know of others please let us know.  http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/statistics/
• An interactive course in statistics. <http://www.katho.be/statist/> On-line course in STATISTICS and PROBABILITY. Author : Dr. Erik Blomme, The Netherlands
• These are for school kids (but I think some of them are very good for big folks ... do you really understand the difference between type I and type II error? type III error? (that's when you pretend you know what type II error is ...) http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/stat/stat.html
• SURFSTAT Australia http://www.anu.edu.au/nceph/surfstat/surfstat-home/surfstat.html
• Journal of Statistics education http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/
• The Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures initiative is designed to make statistical routines easily available via the WWW.  http://www.stat.sc.edu/rsrch/gasp/
• From Rice university http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html
• Electronic Statistics Textbook (very cool) http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
• Distance Learning Links - Links to sites offering information on education via videoconferencing. Link at http://www.vtmednet.org/telemedicine/distancelinks.htm 
• http://www.horizonlive.com/lecture 
• Bonnie Royle ( Bonnie.Royle@ccra-adrc.gc.ca ) responds to that reader question by pointing to "Designing Instruction for Web-Based Distance Learning" ( http://www.dlrn.org/educ/course.html ), a primer on Web-based training from the Distance Learning Resource Network of Phoenix.  Another useful site, says Royle, is the WBT Information Center ( http://www.filename.com/wbt/index.html ). 
• Mark Steiner ( mark.steiner@marchFIRST.com ), e-learning manager with Chicago Internet-services from MarchFirst Inc., suggests these sites: http://www.learnativity.com/  http://www.trainingsupersite.com/ http://www.multimediatraining.com/  http://www.internettime.com/e.htm  http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd.html http://www.outreach.utk.edu/weblearning/ http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/ 
• http://www.audionetintl.com/Projects/ICCS413/table.htm  Audionet International: Extended Reach and Proficiency Assessment (ERAPA) training services, AudioNet managed table-top disaster drill exercises

Additional Resources and Links

• Remember to check the Public Health Training Network calendar at http://www.cdc.gov/phtn/calendar.htm for distance learning courses and references  Public Health Foundation's TrainingFinder.org at http://www.trainingfinder.org/.
• From 8/24/01 Daily News Kansas State University: K-State Program Helps Registered Nurse Go The Distance For Her Patients Source: Kansas State University When Karen Hackenberg, a coronary and critical care nurse, decided there was more she could do to help her patients, she turned to Kansas State University for help.  http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/as/dietetics1.html
• "Bioterrorism alleging use of anthrax and interim guidelines for management--United States, 1998." MMWR 1999 Feb 5 48(4):69-74. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4804.pdf 
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare. 1997. http://chemdef.apgea.army.mil/textbook/contents.asp 
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. Field management of chemical casualties handbook, 2nd ed. 2000 July. http://ccc.apgea.army.mil/Documents/fmcc/ncohandbook2000.htm 
• United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense Medical Management of Chemical Casualties Handbook, 3rd ed. 1999 August. http://www.vnh.org/CHEMCASU/titlepg.html 
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Medical Management of Biological Causalities Handbook, 4th ed. 2001 Feb. [When viewing this page, make sure ALL of the URL is included, AND that there are NO spaces between letters] http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/HomePage/WhatsNew/MedManual/Feb01/handbook.htm 
• U.S. Army. Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties. 2000 July. http://www.vnh.org/FM8284/index.html 
• http://www.sremsc.org/symposium.html
• This is not a new publication (July 2000), but a nice summary of data sources relevant for public health. http://www.astho.org/access/documents/PublicHealthDataSources.htm
• From 8.24/01 Daily News HIRC Study Identifies Ten Leading Online CME Providers Source: Health Industries Research Online Continuing Medical Education (CME) will supplement traditional methods in the future, according to Health Industries Research Companies  http://www.hirc.com
• The Current Status of Online Continuing Medical Education A Master's Thesis in Medical Information Science Provides links and descriptions of 96 CME websites. One finding of this thesis is "The number of sites offering online CME is growing steadily, from 18 in December 1997 to 96 in February 2000. These 96 sites offer over 3000 hours of CME." http://www.netcantina.com/mastersthesis/
• 50 Online degrees and continuing medical education programs http://www.worldwidelearn.com/medical-education.htm
• Electronic CME: Online and Software Resources http://www.medicalcomputingtoday.com/0listcme.html
• The main NN/LM URL is http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/ , which will give you the map of what states are served by which region and links to the various Regional Medical Library homepages. Also, if you follow the "health information" link on the top left, you will find a section on: "Find training materials, a class to take, or someone to teach a class for your organization.  NLM librarians teach PubMed, Internet resources, and other library  technology classes and demonstrations. The focus of their training is on health professionals or organizations that serve rural, minority,  inner-city, or underserved populations, consumer health, and public health.
  • Request a Class http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/about/staff/index.html?role=7 
  • Training Materials http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/train/ 
  • National Online Training Center http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/mar/online/ 

  Also check out the RML's Internet Information Center at

  • http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/netinfo/  which provides Resources for health sciences librarians and professionals looking for help using, understanding, managing, and teaching the Internet. 
  • For New Users http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/netinfo/fundamentals/ History, services available, getting connected
  • Working and Communicating http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/netinfo/working/  E-mail, mailing lists, FTP, telnet, video-conferencing, dealing with UNIX*
  • Resources for Training Others http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/netinfo/training/  Tutorials and links to educational organizations 
  • Management Issues http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/netinfo/policy/  Privacy, security, viruses, policies 
  • Using the Web http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/netinfo/web/  Search engines, evaluating site quality
  • Publishing on the Web http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/netinfo/publishing/ Learning HTML, designing & publishing Web pages
   
• WWW Source Materials for Medical Multimedia http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/sourcematerials/sourcematerials.html
• I just found a really good document on the web. Click into the following website: http://www.acenet.edu/calec/dist_learning/home.html It contains the whole publication on "Guiding Principles for Distance Learning" including the Core Values. When you get into the website, be sure and click into the various links, they are worth your time and effort.
• "Senator Kerrey's Web Education Commission Report Released: The hard work of the Web Based Education Commission, chaired by Senator Bob Kerrey is now available for downloading on the internet. Go Get It! This report, The Power of the Internet for Learning, focuses on the wide range of e-Learning applications and specific recommendations to move this field forward. You can view this report at http://www.webcommission.org
• A couple of years ago DLC's were given a wonderful little handbook that has increasingly served as a useful workforce development tool. It was published by the Human Resource Development Council and is now downloadable from the Internet. It is called "Getting Results Through Learning" and you can get it at: http://www.opm.gov/hrd/lead/handbook2/toc.htm  The thing that I have found most useful is the explanation of the shift in emphasis from training to learning and the examples of informal learning strategies.
• All new resources, health topics, and announcements from the National Library of Medicine's consumer health Web site, MEDLINEplus. To sign up Point your browser to http://list.nih.gov/archives/medlineplus-new.html to join OR send a message to listserv@list.nih.gov leave the subject line blank in the body of the message, type: subscribe medlineplus-new your name
• MEDLINEplus-NIH New and updated consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health only, plus announcements and new health topics from the National Library of Medicine's consumer health Web site, MEDLINEplus. To sign up Point your browser to http://list.nih.gov/archives/medlineplus-nih.html to join OR Send a message to listserv@list.nih.gov Leave the subject line blank In the body of the message, type: subscribe medlineplus-nih your name
• The National Library of Medicine, a component of the National Institutes of Health, is home of one of the first Federal Web sites, created in 1994. The Library is the largest such institution in the world, and much of its collection is accessible through its site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/. 
• I found a good website with info and resources on Distance Learning. Go to http://www.capellauniversity.edu and click on "Discover Distance Learning" on the left.
• Greene's Web site is at www.savageandgreene.com  ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL EVALUATION? You need an objective way to evaluate e-learning? That's what a reader asked about last week -- a "one-size-fits-all" online evaluation tool covering computer-based training and Web-based training, both in-house and from vendors.