Health care decision makers need the skills to find, appraise and implement research evidence to make informed decisions. This is true whether the decisions are being made by the public, patients, health practitioners, health service managers and policy makers or collaboratively. Most health professionals and members of the public do not currently have the skills to do this. EBM, EBHC and EBP courses are available but they are few and far between and usually too expensive or geographically distant for most people to attend. To address the skills deficit in this area the EBHC MOOC group was started in November 2013 by members of ISEHC and participants at the 2013 EBHC Teachers & Developers Conference in Sicily. Our intention is to develop a cross-institutional, international, collaborative MOOC to teach EBHC skills and foster Communities of Evidence-Based Practice worldwide. We will share existing materials and apply for funding to work together to produce and evaluate high quality materials and develop and run open-access distant learning courses.

1. Massive Open Online Courses for
Evidence-Based Health Care?
Could Massive Open
Online Courses be
the way forward for
EBHC in general and
the International
Society for EvidenceBased Health Care
(ISEHC) in particular?

2. Two MOOC theme meetings:
1. Day 1
– What MOOCs are and how they work
– Explore how a MOOC could be used for EBHC skills
dissemination
– Models of organisation
– Is there an interest/will to take this forward
2. Day 2
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Stakeholders/collaborators meeting
Other stakeholders? (Cochrane, UK NHS, WHO, NGOs)
Identification of current resources
Initial strategy document
Division of roles
Timelines

3. What are the current challenges in teaching/learning EBP?

4. Need for training in EBHC skills
- Geographical
divide
- Gap in skills

5. Massive Casual Free Learn

6. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”
Carl Sagan

10. Coursera Growth

11. Where is
EBHC?

12. How many
students are
finishing
MOOCs?
(does this
matter for
EBHC)

14. Massive Casual Free Learn

15. What are the issues we need to think
about if we establish an EBHC MOOC?

16. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”
Socrates
Know Topic and
your Audience
Be Prepared and
Keep it Simple
Communication
is contagious
Stay positive
Use 7 minute
learning bytes
20 minute cycles
Conflicting
Sensory Channels
Divert Attention
Learning
Requires Specific
Call to Action

17. Does it need to be a course?

18. Assessment
1. What is needed?
2. What are the
possible methods?
3. What are the
challenges?
4. What potential
solutions are there?

19. Certification

20. EBHC Course Assessments
Figshare
Wikipedia
Group
Search
Peers Mark
x4
Multimedia
Task based
(2x2 table)
Socratize
Quizlet
Interactive
Evaluation
Question
Based

21. No need to “fail”
With MOOCs everyone can
do it over until they get it!
Amy Price & Amanda Burls

22. Certification

23. Start Up MOOC Costs
$50,000-400,000 per university per course For 1st Run Course
*Not included
 Approximately 200 hours lecture preparation
 Teaching Assistants
 Reassigned Senior Teaching Staff

24. Institutional base/support?

25. Methods
Blended Learning
Local communities
of practice
Interactive
Multiple interface

26. Spontaneous Social Contact Increased Learning

27. Elements of a Sicily EBHC skills training
strategy
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Collaborators (interested individuals)
Umbrella (ISEHC, CASP International Network, Own identity?)
Contributing organizations (e.g. Cochrane, EQUATOR, CASP, Universities)
Administrative centre (GIMBE, a University, independent, commissioned from a
MOOC provider)
Modular approach
Methods
Curriculum
Materials
Assessment
Generation of evidence through student activities? (e.g. Quality assured CAT bank)
Certification (Open badges?)
Stimulating local Communities of Learning/Practice
Financial models
Sustainability
Evaluation of the MOOC