ActivEpi Web, is an electronic textbook for teaching epidemiology, available free on-line. This unique instructional tool can be accessed using the link: http://activepi.herokuapp.com.
ActivEpi Web features:
• 15 lessons (chapters), each with several activities.
• Topics covered in most introductory epidemiology texts:
- study designs, measures of frequency and effect, potential impact,validity (selection, information, and confounding biases),interaction/effect modification, analysis of 2x2 tables, control of variables, stratified analysis, matching, introduction to logistic regression.
• A full range of learning activities:
- Narrated instructional expositions that use video and/or animation
- Interactive study questions within expositions
- Interactive short quizzes
- Exercises using computer software to analyze data
- Homework exercises with solutions available to instructors only
• Materials for the Instructor:
- PowerPoint presentation lecture materials
- Homework exercises and exam questions
- Answer files to homework exercises and exam questions available only to instructors
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