Presentation of Agnes Meershoek (Maastricht University) during EADTU event (MID2018) at Bonnenfantenmuseum in Maastricht

1. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Maastricht University & Selected Partners
Collaboration and virtual mobility
in the MSc Global Health
Agnes Meershoek
Program director
December 13, 2018
MID2018

2. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Partnership
1. Maastricht University, The Netherlands, 28 nationalities (140)
2. McMaster University, Canada, mainly Canadian students (76)
3. Thammasat University, Thailand, student from South East Asia
and Africa (20)
4. Manipal University, India, mainly Indian students (98 in 2
years)
5. Rosario University, Bogota, Colombia, mainly Colombians (35)
6. Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan (20)
7. University of South East Norway (20)
All partners have different GH curricula based on local perspective
on GH and expertise

3. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Physical mobility
1. Student exchange: elective tracks in 2nd term
- Offer students the opportunity to specialize within
Global Health
- Get exposure to different settings
- Work with a divers student population
2. India Learning Symposium
- Two-weeks visit with all students to Manipal (India)
- Get field exposure
- Get experience in working in international/ diverse team
- Practice presenting for international audience

4. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Virtual mobility
Online -Foundations of Global Health 1 & 2
Aim:
- Get experience in and develop skills for working in
international team
- Get experience in and develop skills to work
online
- Course 1: policy analysis
- Course 2: project management
• Part of core curriculum of all partners
• Mandatory

5. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Virtual mobility
Online courses – Format:
- 14 weeks, 1 day a week
- Groups of 6 students
- (semi) self-directed
- Tutor
- Assignments resulting in group paper
- Supporting lectures
- Individual reflection report
- Blackboard Collaborate
- Google hangout

6. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Virtual mobility
Online courses – Challenges
in logistics/ organization:
- Joint online platform for all universities
- Complex planning:
- Number of students, different time zones, different
academic calendars, different regulations
Course material for ‘intercultural communication’
- Stereotyping and fixing culture
- Western bias (doctors going abroad treating foreign
patients)

7. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Virtual mobility
Online courses – Challenges
- Quality and stability of internet
- Create equality/reciprocal relationships in groups:
- format (online, student centered) facilitates specific
styles of working
- value different types of contributions
- Grading

8. Global Health
Health, Ethics & Society
Virtual mobility
Online courses – evaluation
- Student are ambivalent and feel frustration
- Alumni highly appreciate the course
- Accreditation committee in 2015
- Impressed by the quality of the papers
- Valued the courses as a Best practice in global health