This is online support for the National Ski Patrol, Outdoor Emergency Care Course.  The objective of the OEC Distance Learning course is to provide the OEC course to students that are not able to participate in the traditional OEC course due to schedule or distance from a traditional class.  For students to be successful they need to be computer literate and able to use web based information, complete assignments in text documents and use email to communicate with other students and the course instructors. 

The basics of the course that we wish to preserve are:

• Use of the NSP OEC text book and work book

• Quality assurance by OEC region and division staff

• Hands-on training through the use of mentors

The current courses have assignments presented from this web site.  Assignments are emailed to a course coordinator who evaluates the student responses to the assignments and provides feedback by email and phone. Hands-on training is accomplished through the use of a mentor assigned to each student.  The mentor is to provide hands-on training and practice for the many hands-on skills.   Students meet at least four times during the course to confirm and refine skills and for final evaluation.  

To start a course you need the approval of your regional OEC Administrator and your Division OEC Supervisor.  Discuss with them the need for doing the course as distance learning.  The Division OEC Supervisor should contact Carol Hudson (chudson@nsp.org, 303-988-1111 x2637) at the NSP national office to set up user names and passwords for staff and students. 

This is a password protected website for students and instructors of the course only.