Massive open online courses: a resource for health education in developing countries.
Glob Health Promot
; 25(3): 74-76, 2018 09.
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| ID: mdl-28134014
Developing countries are suffering from increasing burdens presented by both non-communicable and emerging infectious diseases. Health education is an important step to fight against these mostly preventable diseases. E-learning has been shown to be one of the tools that address some of the training challenges experienced in developing countries by supporting efficient content delivery, decreasing costs and increasing access. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a recent innovative presentation of online learning that have attracted millions of learners from all over the world. In this commentary, we propose MOOCs as a potential tool to offer a tremendous opportunity to fulfil the unmet training needs of the health sector in developing countries in two complementary ways: as a resource for training healthcare professionals; and as a resource for the general public. Potential barriers to accessing MOOCs and possible solutions are also discussed.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Educación en Salud
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Personal de Salud
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Educación a Distancia
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Humans
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En
Revista:
Glob Health Promot
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EDUCACAO
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Año:
2018
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Article
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