Koch Sabine, Hägglund Maria
Health Informatics Centre, LIME, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;245:753-757.
We report our experiences from the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), "eHealth - Opportunities and Challenges", run by Karolinska Institutet using the edx platform both as session-based and self-paced versions between 2015 and 2016. In total, 13,302 students from 162 different countries were enrolled in our courses during the two-year period whereof 573 completed them. 331 students answered an exit survey after finishing the course which was analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods. As positive outcomes of the course, students highlighted set-up and content of the course, the pedagogical approach and the consistent international focus. Students lacked more practical case studies, more interactive discussions and proposed advanced follow-up courses on certain topics. Faculty lacked better functions for management of the discussion forum. Major advantages of the MOOC were mutual learning and exchange of health informatics experiences from around the world that would have been difficult to achieve in traditional learning contexts.
我们报告了卡罗琳斯卡学院在2015年至2016年期间利用edx平台开展的大规模在线开放课程（MOOC）“电子健康——机遇与挑战”的经验，该课程有基于课程节次和自主学习两种版本。在这两年期间，共有来自162个不同国家的13302名学生注册了我们的课程，其中573名学生完成了课程。331名学生在完成课程后回答了结业调查问卷，我们使用定量和定性方法对问卷进行了分析。作为该课程的积极成果，学生们强调了课程的设置和内容、教学方法以及始终如一的国际视野。学生们希望增加更多实用案例研究、更多互动讨论，并提议开设某些主题的进阶后续课程。教师们希望讨论论坛有更好的管理功能。MOOC的主要优势在于相互学习以及交流来自世界各地的健康信息学经验，而这在传统学习环境中很难实现。
