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Massive Open Online Health Courses (MOOCs): Brazilian Initiatives

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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are open and massive courses provided in virtual learning environments that allow participants to share experiences, knowledge, and information. This chapter aims to map out Brazil’s academic literature on MOOCs in health using dissertations and theses on MOOCs and from governmental initiatives in health that are similar to MOOCs. This is a qualitative study based on the documental analysis of the websites of the Brazilian Ministries of Health and Education, the MOOC-List.com, and the “Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.” While not adopting the MOOC nomenclature, Brazil invests in massive, online, and open-learning initiatives. The academic work on Brazil’s MOOCs in health is incipient. There is potential to be explored, including permanent and continuing education of health professionals and exchange of information between researchers, professionals, and users of the Brazilian health system.

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  1. 1.

    Chapter 14 addresses the issue of health e-learning in Brazil.

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    Chapter 16 analyses the experience of University of São Paulo in digital innovation for medical training.

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    The digital inclusion of community health workers is discussed in Chap. 17.

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  1. School of Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Liara Saldanha Brites & Cristianne Maria Famer Rocha

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    Matthew B. Flynn

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Brites, L.S., Rocha, C.M.F. (2019). Massive Open Online Health Courses (MOOCs): Brazilian Initiatives. In: Pereira Neto, A., Flynn, M. (eds) The Internet and Health in Brazil . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99289-1_15

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