Design/Development Phase

This section describe the key elements or principles of the five instructional components: preparation, persentation, participation, practice with feedback, and performance assessment.

Course Title:
Module Stress Management 101 in the Professional Development Program in Distance Education (PDPDE)

Learning Materials:
Teaching materials:

1. Stress Management and Emotional Wellness Links
2. Aging in the New Millennium: Managing the Role of Stress in Our Lives. Struggling with What It Is
3. Stress Management
4. Stress assessment:
   University Health Service, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
   BBC
   University of Pittsburgh
   Stress Quiz, 211 questions
5. More resources at John D Dingell VA Medical Center
6. Assorted Stress Quotes
7. Samples of personal stress plans:
   http://www.hr.duke.edu/sos/planning.html; http://www.twilightbridge.com/stress/complete/8actionplan.htm;

Student materials:

1. Stress Management and Emotional Wellness Links

Prerequisites:
Enrolled in one of the tracks of the Professional Development Program in Distance Education (PDPDE).

Overview of the Content:
Stress Management is a module that helps learners to understand that stress is a part of everyone's life and what they can do to ease or control the stress they might have while in the PDPDE program.

Design Decisions:

1. Instructional approach: suitable for collaborative learning and independent (self-paced) learning
2. Scale: large scale (hundreds of Professional Development Program in Distance Education (PDPDE) students)