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Building Capacity and Improving Women's Access to Education through the Intelligence eHealth MOOCs

The Women Observatory for eHealth aims to empower women through online education in global health, women's issues, and ICT. This initiative promotes the use of MOOCs to bridge the digital education gap and enhance women's access to education. The WeObservatory collaborates with various platforms and institutions to select MOOCs that focus on health, women, and ICT. Although there is a need for multilingual courses and gender-focused topics, the WeObservatory is working towards developing a digital platform and a closed online course to address these gaps in education.

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Building Capacity and Improving Women's Access to Education through the Intelligence eHealth MOOCs

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  1. The Women Observatory for eHealth Building capacity and improving women's access to education through theIntelligence eHealth MOOCs Commons CRS ICT4D Conference, St. Charles, IL, May 27, 2015 Dr. Lilia Pérez-Chavolla, Senior Advisor on ICT Applications Millennia2025 Foundation, WeObservatory Millennia2025 Foundation is an initiative of The Destree Institute, under the high patronage of the UNESCO

  2. Millennia2025 Women & Innovation Foundation • Implements the Millennia2015 foresight exercise action plans for women's empowerment andgender equalitythrough digital solidarity • In 140 countries, with 10,000 members

  3. Millennia2025 FoundationGlobal Action Plans 2012-2025 The WeObservatory highlights the crucial role of women in global health, eHealth and telemedicine, as well as their recognized capacity as builders of alternative futures

  4. Value of MOOCs for women’s empowerment • Capacity building - key factor for socio-economic development and women’s empowerment • Women’s access to tertiary education remains extremely low • Increased ICT penetration and more affordable mobile and broadband services worldwide can help overcome some of these barriers • New ways to access free educational resources using the Internet - MOOCs

  5. Intelligence MOOCs Commons for Women and eHealth www.millennia2015.org/moocs Goal: Facilitate women’s access to online education in the areas of global health, women, and ICT

  6. Criteria used to select MOOCs • Widely recognized platforms and educational institutions • Free access • Areas of interest to the WeObservatory: Health, women and ICT • Language: English, Spanish, and/or French—three of the six UN official languages

  7. Top five platforms represented in WeMOOCs Of the 340 courses selected for WeMOOCs and 21 represented platforms:

  8. Analysis of MOOC offerings:Language & type of course

  9. Analysis of MOOC offerings:Topics

  10. Selected MOOCs:Key topics covered

  11. Focus on the Mobile Component 8 mHealth related courses found

  12. MOOCs:Identified gaps & bridging efforts • None of the platforms searched since 2014 offer MOOCs on the use of ICT for health by women or for women’s health • Lack of multilinguism and courses focusing on gender issues • The Millennia2025 Foundation is currently working towards two goals: • Develop a digital platform in collaboration with Promis, the European Commission initiative for digital jobs • Develop a closed online course to educate professional midwives and healthcare professionals on the use of ICT for maternal health and midwifery

  13. Bridging the gap: CASA’s online course • CASA – Center for Adolescents of San Miguel de Allende • Only professional midwifery school in rural Mexico • Online course covering ICT use for maternal health and midwifery (Sept. - Dec. 2014) • Students: Midwives, OB-GYNs, general practitioners

  14. Online course on ICT for Midwives • Revisions to CASA’s online course are in process • Revised course to be available later in 2015, using the Millennia2025 Intelligence Platform

  15. Work in progress • Med-e-Tel 2015 Conference session on “Empowering Women in eHealth and Telemedicine through Education” (May 2015)http://www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program • WHO and the Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (JISfTeH) published a Special issue on Women and eHealth (May 2015): http://journals.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/JISfTeH/ • Millennia2025 is seeking international organizations and universities worldwide to partner with in the development of a MOOC on Women and eHealth. If interested, contact Dr. Veronique Thouvenot at: thouvenot.veronique@millennia2025-foundation.org

  16. Conclusions • More work is needed to facilitate access of non-English speakers to higher education courses and promote in depth coverage of gender equity issues • MOOC courses can help build capacity among women and health professionals worldwide • WeMOOCs and the WeObservatory seek to provide an innovative e-platform at the service of women and health professionals in the Post-2015 framework

  17. Thanks! Contact: lpchavolla2@hotmail.com Visit us: www.weobservatory.com Follow our blog

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