title: Lessons learned on teaching a global audience with massive open online courses (MOOCs) on health impacts of climate change: a commentary
creator: Barteit, Sandra
creator: Sié, Ali
creator: Yé, Maurice
creator: Depoux, Anneliese
creator: Louis, Valérie R.
creator: Sauerborn, Rainer
subject: ddc-610
subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine
description: Background: The adverse health impacts of climate change are increasing on a global level. However, knowledge about climate change and health is still unavailable to many global citizens, in particular on adaptation measures and co-benefits of health mitigation. Educational technologies, such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), may have a high potential for providing access to information about climate change links to health for a global audience.    Main body: We developed three MOOCs addressing the link between climate change and health to take advantage of the methodology’s broad reach and accelerate knowledge dissemination on the nexus of climate change and health. The primary objective was to translate an existing face-to-face short course that only reached a few participants on climate change and health into globally accessible learning opportunities. In the following, we share and comment on our lessons learned with the three MOOCs, with a focus on global teaching in the realm of climate change and health.    Conclusions: Overall, the three MOOCs attracted a global audience with diverse educational backgrounds, and a large number of participants from low-income countries. Our experience highlights that MOOCs may play a part in global capacity building, potentially for other health-related topics as well, as we have found that our MOOCs have attracted participants within low-resource contexts. MOOCs may be an effective method for teaching and training global students on health topics, in this case on the complex links and dynamics between climate change and health and may further act as an enabler for equitable access to quality education.
publisher: BioMed Central
date: 2019
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27017/1/12992_2019_Article_494.pdf
identifier: DOI:
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-270172
identifier:   Barteit, Sandra ; Sié, Ali ; Yé, Maurice ; Depoux, Anneliese ; Louis, Valérie R. ; Sauerborn, Rainer  (2019) Lessons learned on teaching a global audience with massive open online courses (MOOCs) on health impacts of climate change: a commentary.  Globalization and Health, 15 (52).  pp. 1-5.  ISSN 1744-8603     
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language: eng