Open Online Courses in Public Health: experience from Peoples-uni

Open Online Courses in Public Health: experience from Peoples-uni

Open Online Courses (OOCs) are offered by Peoples-uni at http://ooc.peoples-uni.org to complement the courses run on a separate site for academic credit at http://courses.peoples-uni.org. They provide a wide range of online learning resources beyond those usually found in credit bearing Public Health courses. They are self-paced, and students can enrol themselves at any time and utilise Open Ed...

Massive Open Online Courses in Public Health

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) represent a new and potentially transformative model for providing educational opportunities to learners not enrolled in a formal educational program. The authors describe the experience of developing and offering eight MOOCs on a variety of public health topics. Existing institutional infrastructure and experience with both for-credit online education and op...

Peoples-uni: Developing public health competences - Lessons from a pilot course module

The People’s Open Access Educational Initiative (Peoples-uni) aims to contribute towards public health capacity building in Developing Countries, through the provision of on-line education for public health practitioners. It is intended that this provision be of high quality, but low cost, and will utilise the diverse array of Open Educational Resources which are available. A key requirement fo...

Massive Open Online Courses

Delivering Immersive Learning Experience for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), a unique form of online education enabled by web-based learning technologies, allow learners from anywhere in the world with any level of educational background to enjoy online education experience provided by many top universities all around the world. However, the forms of learning activities in MOOC settings are usually limited to watching lecture or tuto...