Disaster Relief

Humanitarian
Assistance
Training
ETEC 645
Lulu
Structure
• Locus of Control
• Why Distance Education
• Overall Description
• Implementation
• Weekly Schedule
• Assessment
• Research
Locus of Control

• Disaster Relief from Technology and

Social Justice course in ETEC645
• Disaster Management in PLAN670
• The Post-Truama & Stress Disorder
counseling in cross-cultural counseling
needs more input and research

This will be a 10 weeks online course,

preparing for the humanitarian
assistance, responding to disaster,
trauma, and crisis.
Structure
• Locus of Control
• Why Distance Education
• Overall Description
• Implementation
• Weekly Schedule
• Assessment
• Research
Why Distance Education for HA

• The learner’s demographics: adult learner

• The increase number of humanitarian

organizations & workers

• The future trend for Humanitarian worker.

Structure
• Locus of Control
• Why Distance Education
• Overall Description
• Implementation
• Weekly Schedule
• Assessment
• Research
Overall Description
• This interdisciplinary course
explores how the world responds to
disaster and trauma. Students will look
at both the basic working structure of
humanitarian assistance programs and
the theoretical, ethical and legal basis
for contemporary humanitarian
practice.
Implementation
• Http://UniSociety.Org
• The online tools used in the course are list
below:
– Moodle -- as a course management system at
http://unisociety.org
• With Forum

– Elluminate -- as an online virtual classroom for

students to meet, around the world.
– Survey Monkey -- as an assessment tool to
evaluate at the beginning of the class and the
end of the class.

– Video as Web Content

Week 1: Assessment
& Students’ Learning Style
• The class will meet through the Synchronous
tool: Elluminates
• Content: Course syllable, the overall schedule,
the objective of the course, the reading list, the
assignments, the tools will be using during the
class and the grading rules.
• A pre-course assessment will be done at the
end of the class, to get an idea of each
student's learning style and preference of the
course content, the purpose of taking the
course and how well the students comprehend
the online tools for the further appropriate
instruction.
Week 2: Humanitarian Assistance
• How the world operate in terms of large
scale natural disaster
• The major issue in disaster mangagement
and humanitarian assistance
• Organizations and overview
Week 3 - 10
• With Videos, Photos and other multi-media
materials, along with readings and research datas

• Week3 Foodcrisis
• Week4 Climate Changes
• Week5 Population Displacement
• Week6 Lesson Learned from Earthquake
• Week7 Lesson Learned from Cyclone Nargis
• Week9 Special Guest speaker
• Week 10 Assessment: Presentation
Research

• Sociocultural Learning
• Instructional Video
• Online Collaboration
Q &A

ETEC 645
Lulu