Activity 9: Development of distance education course

Based on the materials and case studies developed during the first phase of CASITA project, a distance education course on natural hazard and risk assessment has been developed. The Blackboard has been used as a virtual platform for development of the course. A workshop for curriculum development of the distance education course on “Multi-Hazard risk Assessment” took place in Hanoi, Vietnam from 14^th to 25^th November 2005.It  was considered as the first trial run of the distance education course. The refresher course focussed on presenting the outline of the distance education course on “Multi-hazard risk assessment” for evaluation by experts in training in the field of Geo- Information for Disaster Management. Participants were mostly the senior lectures representing universities in the CASITA network. This workshop was very interactive with a lot of feedback from the participants, which would help in introducing further modifications to course material for making them more oriented towards target audiences. It was also decided during the workshop that the course would be made partly interactive and partly web based as most of the purely web based courses have a lot of dropouts and there are a lot of factors and variable conditions in various countries which make them non conducive.

See < Activity 9 Final Report RC-Vietnam>