Peoples-uni - Online Public Health Capacity Building for Developing Countries
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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...
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BACKGROUND Taking advantage of societal trends involving the "third sector", a social model of philanthropy and the open-source software and educational resource movements, provides the opportunity for online education for capacity building at low cost. The Peoples Open Access Education Initiative, Peoples-uni, aims to help build public health capacity in this way, and this paper describes its ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Global Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2214-9996
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.814