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      Massive Open Online Course for Health Informatics Education

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      , BMBS, BMedSci, MBA, FACHI
      Healthcare Informatics Research
      Korean Society of Medical Informatics
      Distance Education, Medical Informatics, Professional Education, Social Media, Computer-Assisted Instruction

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          Abstract

          Objectives

          This paper outlines a new method of teaching health informatics to large numbers of students from around the world through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

          Methods

          The Health Informatics Forum is one of examples of MOOCs through a social networking site for educating health informatics students and professionals. It is running a MOOC for students from around the world that uses creative commons licenced content funded by the US government and developed by five US universities. The content is delivered through narrated lectures with slides that can be viewed online with discussion threads on the forum for class interactions. Students can maintain a professional profile, upload photos and files, write their own blog posts and post discussion threads on the forum.

          Results

          The Health Informatics Forum MOOC has been accessed by 11,316 unique users from 127 countries from August 2, 2012 to January 24, 2014. Most users accessed the MOOC via a desktop computer, followed by tablets and mobile devices and 55% of users were female. Over 400,000 unique users have now accessed the wider Health Informatics Forum since it was established in 2008.

          Conclusions

          Advances in health informatics and educational technology have both created a demand for online learning material in health informatics and a solution for providing it. By using a MOOC delivered through a social networking platform it is hoped that high quality health informatics education will be able to be delivered to a large global audience of future health informaticians without cost.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Healthc Inform Res
                Healthc Inform Res
                HIR
                Healthcare Informatics Research
                Korean Society of Medical Informatics
                2093-3681
                2093-369X
                April 2014
                30 April 2014
                : 20
                : 2
                : 81-87
                Affiliations
                New Media Medicine Ltd., Oxfordshire, UK.
                Author notes
                Corresponding Author: Chris Paton, BMBS, BMedSci, MBA, FACHI. New Media Medicine Ltd., 99 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4RY, UK. Tel: +44-1235-854019, chris@ 123456newmediamedicine.com
                Article
                10.4258/hir.2014.20.2.81
                4030063
                24872906
                11dca481-db2f-4a38-ad9a-c406c1118c2e
                © 2014 The Korean Society of Medical Informatics

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 11 April 2014
                : 21 April 2014
                : 25 April 2014
                Categories
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                Bioinformatics & Computational biology
                distance education,medical informatics,professional education,social media,computer-assisted instruction

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