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Open Online Courses in Public Health: experience from Peoples-uni

Richard F Heller1, Robert Zurynski2, Alan Barrett1

  • 1People's Open Access Education Initiative (Peoples-uni), Manchester, UK.

F1000Research
|May 12, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Peoples-uni offers Open Online Courses (OOCs) in Public Health, providing free, self-paced learning resources to over 1000 students globally. These courses aim to build global Public Health capacity.

Keywords:
Public Healthdeveloping countryonline learningopen online courses

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