Louise Blakemore|Sarah Meek|Leah Marks
Equipping Learners to Evaluate Online Health Care Resources: Longitudinal Study of Learning Design Strategies in a Health Care Massive Open Online Course
Imperial College London|University of Glasgow|University of Glasgow
digital revolution led boom number available online health care resources navigate resources successfully digital literacy education required learners evaluate reliability validity online health care information likely effective avoiding potentially dangerous misinformation addition providing health care education massive open online courses moocs well positioned play role providing digital literacy education contextthis study focused learners enrolled mooc cancer genomics aim study evaluate efficacy series digital literacyrelated activities within course iterative study changes made digital literacyrelated activities 4 8 runs coursethis mixed methods study focused learner engagement digital literacyrelated activities including final course written assignment quantitative data including number references listed written assignment compared successive runs qualitative data form learner comments discussion forums digital literacyrelated tasks evaluated determine impact educational activitiesusing number references included final course assignment indicator digital literacy skills digital literacyrelated activities final 2 runs judged successful found statistically significant increase number references cited learners final written assignments average number references cited run 8 significantly higher 35 run 1 18 mooc p001 learner comments runs 7 8 showed poll learners asked select 4 online resources reliable effective stimulating learner discussion evaluate resource reliabilitysimilar many health care moocs course studied heterogeneous group learners including patients families public health care students practitioners carefully designing range digital literacyrelated activities would beneficial heterogenous group learners enabled learners become effective evaluating citing appropriate online resources within written assignments