Establishing a national health E-learning portal in Taiwan

Taiwan introduced a new Grade 1-9 Integrated Curriculum (G1-9 IC) in 2001. New curriculum standards provide only guidelines of major contents in 7 learning areas and focus on reminding teachers the basic abilities students should have and not providing standardized and detail textbooks. The national Health e-Learning Network (HeN) is one of six education networks funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to support G1-9 IC. After one year planning, the construction of the website (http://health.edu.tw) launched in 2003. The development team recruited more than 100 experts. About 40 elementary and secondary partner schools all over the country are collaborated to promote the website and digital learning contents. According to the three stages principle of preventive medicine and seven major contents of health and physical education learning area of G1-9 IC.. Through the implementation of information and network technology, many multimedia e-learning units(MeU) were developed. School teachers, students and parents can access these contents freely and share their experience interactively on the user community platform linked on the website. In the future, HEN will further coordinate the resources from public and private sectors to establish a health e-learning portal and provide life long health education. The family physician-based community integrated delivery system in conjunction with health information management and referral system will be integrated to provide a comprehensive and continuous holistic health care to reach the goal of health for all. ? 2006 by Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School. All rights reserved.