A student made MOOC for medical students during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Background

Latin America was one of the last regions of the world to become affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a response to the emergency virtual education was implemented in almost every country of the region.

Methods

a massive open online course about epilepsy was made using only free software and platforms following the international league against epilepsy competence-based domains for epileptology teaching.

Results

250 healthcare students signed up for the course and only 17.2% of them had previously participated in courses like this one. This course had a completion rate of 37.2% and of the students that completed the course 98.3% would participate in course like this in the future.

Conclusion

In conclusion MOOCs can be easily implemented as a powerful pedagogic strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic and can have a positive impact not only in in its proposed learning objectives but it can help closing the gap that prevent Latin American healthcare students to acquire actively knowledge trough them.

Personal, Professional, and Institutional Social Network accounts

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Discussion Points

• How can a student made MOOC impact Latin American medical students?

• Can a student made MOOC encourage medical students to use and discover new educational online offers?

• COVID-19 pandemic can be a good time to improve the academy using new technologies and pedagogic strategies.

• MOOCs can become a powerful tool for learning and teaching worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• MOOCs are an attractive tool for teaching and learning during the social distancing caused by COVID-19.