Section IV
Individual Learning Model
Individual LEarning Model
The Individual Learning Model complements the Group Learning Model by providing individual students with interactive independent study. This self-learning multimedia tool contains quizzes, on-screen readings, and videos for the entire DIA Learning Ethics Series. The Individual Learning Model is a chaptered, Web-based program available as Full Course or Selected Topics. It offers the following items:
- 60-minute narrative video with expert commentary
- Up to 12 chaptered curriculum topics, each including:
- 5-minute narrative video components
- On-screen reading components
- On-screen quiz components
- Pre-test and post-quiz learning outcome measurement
- Real-Time Score-tracking
- Automated Certification by recognized accrediting bodies
coursework:
The Interfaith Version of the Individual Learning Model for Ethics Program 4 includes the following coursework:
- Chapter 1. Stem Cell Research: Aligning Science with Ethics
- Chapter 2. The Development of Human Stem Cells
- Chapter 3. Developments in Stem Cell Research and Therapy
- Chapter 4. Human Stem Cells and Examples of the Treatment of Disease
- Chapter 5. The Development of Adult Stem Cell Therapies
- Chapter 6. Creating a Stem Cell Donor via Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
- Chapter 7. Ethics of Stem Cell Research: Policy and Alleviating Human Suffering
- Chapter 8. Ethics of Stem Cell Research: the Commodification of Human Nature
- Chapter 9. Ethics of Stem Cell Research: Access to Stem Cell Registries and Banks
- Chapter 10. Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Status of the Human Embryo
- Chapter 11. Politics and Public Policy in the Debate on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
- Chapter 12. Human Therapeutic Cloning: the Ethics and Policy Debate
