tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Experience with a "social model" of capacity building: the Peoples-uni"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Experience with a "social model" of capacity building: the Peoples-uni | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Open Access Experience with a social model of capacity building the Peoples-uni Richard F Heller Address Peoples Open Access Education Initiative - Peoples-uni Manchester UK Email Richard F Heller - rfheller@ Published 29 May 2009 Received 25 December 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 43 doi 1478-4491-7-43 Accepted 29 May 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 43 2009 Heller licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Taking advantage of societal trends involving the third sector a social model of philanthropy and the open-source software and educational resource movements provides the opportunity for online education for capacity building at low cost. The Peoples Open Access Education Initiative Peoples-uni aims to help build public health capacity in this way and this paper describes its evolution. Methods The development of the Peoples-uni has involved the creation of an administrative infrastructure calls for and identification of volunteers development of both the information and communications technology infrastructure and course content and identification of students and course delivery to them. A pilot course module was offered for delivery. Results and Discussion Volunteers have been prepared to become involved in the administrative structures as trustees members of advisory and quality assurance and educational oversight groups. More than 100 people have offered to be involved as course developers or as facilitators for course delivery and to date 46 of these from 13 countries have been actively involved. Volunteer experts in information and communications technology have .