Accessing good health information and resources.

Health workers need to be able to access health information and resources to update and apply their knowledge and skills and continue their professional development

Open educational resources.

Historically, ‘open education’ has involved making education more accessible, whether by lowering cost or by enabling delivery at a distance. In our technological age, open education has become a global sharing of knowledge and ideas through the Internet

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Open education in eye health: transforming access to learning

Remaining relevant and keeping up with medical advances is a challenge, as access to high-quality education is inequitable and costly. The open education approach is designed to reduce restrictions to learning

Open education in eye health: transforming access to learning

Remaining relevant and keeping up with medical advances is a challenge, as access to high-quality education is inequitable and costly. The open education approach is designed to reduce restrictions to learning

Practising open education

Decades of debate have centred on definitions of openness in higher education (HE) and have considered the potential of open education to align, and even transform, the relationship between knowledge creation and knowledge needs. Proposals and tactics for extending the benefits of access to information and participation in education have a long history. In recent decades, much of this work has taken place under the banner of ‘open’, a descriptor that has been attached to universities, learning, resources, technology and even practices. Supporters of greater openness in education share the belief and aspiration that, through this route, educational opportunities can be provided to all as a human right and education can be the catalyst for global equalisation in sharing and receiving knowledge

Value Creation framework to assess MOOC based learning

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to scale up and democratise participation in professional education. Medical advances and growing demand for health providers require adoption of new flexible, team-based and lifelong learning approaches beyond the current “silo” medical training model focused specific professional roles. MOOCs provide opportunities to address pressing global health training challenges through collaborative development and globally networked learning environments. This project considered the extent to which individuals could gain and apply their learning from a global health MOOC within their local contexts. // In 1996 the World Health Organization launched the international initiative ‘GET 2020’ to eliminate trachoma, an avoidable blinding eye disease, across 44 endemic countries. In 2016, 16 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)staff and 37 collaborators from 12 countries developed the first MOOC in “Eliminating Trachoma’ aimed at improving access to training, equipping and mobilising health workers, to achieve ‘GET 2020’. Over 5000 people have participated in the MOOC from a diverse range of professional cadres and disciplines, including clinicians providing surgical services, programme managers, field workers administrating antibiotics, and teams implementing water and sanitation improvements.// We adapted a ‘value -creation framework’ to evaluate the impact of MOOC-based learning on trachoma elimination practices at the local level. Online surveys were designed to capture personal experiences of ‘cycles’ of value creation during participation in the MOOC and after the course. The results provide unique and emergent insights into the ongoing value of the MOOC experience for respondents, their teams and the communities affected by trachoma with whom they are engaging towards the goal of elimination

Bridging the eye health information gap through the internet

The internet connects millions of computers around the world. Once connected, the eye health worker can use internet services to: * access the most up-to-date information at a fraction of the traditional cost of journal subscription via the new Open Access publishing model * communicate with colleagues, reducing the sense of professional isolation which comes from geographical separation * engage in a two way process of communication between health information providers and users * publish locally appropriate material more easily