When carefully and collaboratively designed and offered through reliable platforms, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can provide valuable access to reliable information, compiled and presented by experts, without the constraints of time, geographical location, and level of education. MOOCs can thus contribute to public literacy to facilitate health and wellbeing, provide timely professional education for practitioners, and explore innovative teaching models for student learning. Further benefits include the potential to enhance communication among international communities, with a focus on addressing patient, family, and community-centered needs. Integrating the lived experiences of those who are ill or at-risk, and those who provide care, is an important, but largely unaddressed component of MOOC education, particularly to address culturally safe care. The application of large-scale “big” data from health and medically related MOOCs may also help to redesign health systems and translate knowledge into effective prevention and care.
The purpose of the collection of articles in this Research Topic is to stimulate discussion and provide evidence for the role of MOOCs as innovative tools in health and medical education and practice to ensure effective, quality, equitable, culturally safe, and patient, family, and community-centered health care. These are core components of modern health care. The integration of perspectives from those needing care, health care providers, organizations, consumer and professional groups, private and public payment providers is possible through MOOCs to; (i) identify evidence-based care processes consistent with best practice, (ii) organize public health prevention programs to target key associated health-risk behaviors, (iii) develop and provide a supportive outcomes-based information infrastructure, (iv) align reimbursement policies with the goal of quality improvement, and (v) develop systems to measure and evaluate improvements in the provision of health care.
The scope of this article collection is deliberately broad. As a leading expert in your field, we would like you to participate by submitting your research related to health and medical education and practice delivered via MOOCs. This research can be original research, a clinical trial, a systematic review, highlight a particular method, protocol, or platform of significant interest, including interprofessional education (IPE) and practice (IPP), focus on a community case study, focus on pedagogy, or present information related to organizational policy, quality improvement, and systems change.
Articles addressing health and wellbeing, including mental health and social and emotional wellbeing, of Indigenous peoples and their access to MOOCs are particularly encouraged.
When carefully and collaboratively designed and offered through reliable platforms, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can provide valuable access to reliable information, compiled and presented by experts, without the constraints of time, geographical location, and level of education. MOOCs can thus contribute to public literacy to facilitate health and wellbeing, provide timely professional education for practitioners, and explore innovative teaching models for student learning. Further benefits include the potential to enhance communication among international communities, with a focus on addressing patient, family, and community-centered needs. Integrating the lived experiences of those who are ill or at-risk, and those who provide care, is an important, but largely unaddressed component of MOOC education, particularly to address culturally safe care. The application of large-scale “big” data from health and medically related MOOCs may also help to redesign health systems and translate knowledge into effective prevention and care.
The purpose of the collection of articles in this Research Topic is to stimulate discussion and provide evidence for the role of MOOCs as innovative tools in health and medical education and practice to ensure effective, quality, equitable, culturally safe, and patient, family, and community-centered health care. These are core components of modern health care. The integration of perspectives from those needing care, health care providers, organizations, consumer and professional groups, private and public payment providers is possible through MOOCs to; (i) identify evidence-based care processes consistent with best practice, (ii) organize public health prevention programs to target key associated health-risk behaviors, (iii) develop and provide a supportive outcomes-based information infrastructure, (iv) align reimbursement policies with the goal of quality improvement, and (v) develop systems to measure and evaluate improvements in the provision of health care.
The scope of this article collection is deliberately broad. As a leading expert in your field, we would like you to participate by submitting your research related to health and medical education and practice delivered via MOOCs. This research can be original research, a clinical trial, a systematic review, highlight a particular method, protocol, or platform of significant interest, including interprofessional education (IPE) and practice (IPP), focus on a community case study, focus on pedagogy, or present information related to organizational policy, quality improvement, and systems change.
Articles addressing health and wellbeing, including mental health and social and emotional wellbeing, of Indigenous peoples and their access to MOOCs are particularly encouraged.
