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Death Education Online: Lessons Learned

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As pedagogy and technology have advanced teaching and learning in all academic areas, so too has the opportunity for distance education developed in the field of thanatology. This panel of experienced online death educators will discuss the insights they’ve gained as they developed and implemented courses around the topics of death, dying and bereavement. Panel members will discuss approaches to content and pedagogy and the unique characteristics of online thanatology classes.

Learning objectives:

1. Recognize the issues that emerge in teaching thanatology online
2. Discuss the character of student and faculty roles in online education
3. Develop a framework for planning for online education in thanatology

About your instructors:

Thomas Attig is the author of The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love (Oxford University Press, 2000), How We Grieve: Relearning the World (Oxford University Press, 1996), and numerous articles and reviews on grief and loss, care of the dying, suicide intervention, death education, expert witnessing in wrongful death cases, the ethics of interactions with the dying, and the nature of applied philosophy. He currently resides in the San Francisco area and devotes his time to writing, speaking and consulting. Tom is in his fourth year of online teaching. He invites you to visit his website at www.griefsheart.com.

Kathleen Gilbert, PhD., FT, is an Associate Professor of Applied Health Science at Indiana University. She studies grief in the context of the family. She is the author of several books and has presented and published numerous journal articles and book chapters focusing on the dynamics of loss, grief, and trauma in a dyadic and family context. She teaches Grief in a Family Context, a fully on-line university course.

Eunice Gorman, RN, BSW, MSW, RSW, PhD candidate, is a nurse and a social worker who has been involved in end-of-life and bereavement care for many years.

Darcy Harris is the Thanatology Coordinator of King's University College, which offers online courses and programs in Thanatology. She is currently completing her doctorate with research focused on reproductive loss. Darcy is also a therapist in private practice, as well as an author and lecturer.

Jane Moore is an Associate Professor at National-Louis University in Chicago, IL. She also teaches in the Kings College Grief and Bereavement Studies Program at the University of Western Ontario. Jane serves the ADEC Board of Directors as Secretary and facilitates grief groups for children through the Good Mourning program in Park Ridge, IL.

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Updated: April 20, 2010