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The main aim of the MOOC was to help educate and build community awareness around death and dying as a normal process, and of palliative care and what it can offer in helping to support those nearing the end of life.
Jun 29, 2017 · (1) Background: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are becoming more commonplace in the delivery of free online education and a Dying2Learn MOOC was offered by a team at Palliative and...
Jun 29, 2017 · The Dying2Learn MOOC is based on a cMOOC approach, but rigor has been applied in evaluating learning outcomes, not just simply encouraging networking and engagement.
- Deb Rawlings, Lauren Miller-Lewis, David Collien, Jennifer Tieman, Deborah Parker, Christine Sanders...
- 2017
Mar 26, 2018 · A Massive Open Online Course, Dying2Learn, was designed to foster community death conversations and strengthen community awareness of palliative care and death as a normal process.
- Study Overview
- Content Development
- Data Collection and Participants
- Measures
- Statistical Approach
The Dying2Learn MOOC was made available to the general public through the OpenLearning platform, with no eligibility restrictions placed on enrolment. Open Learning is an Australian-based company that offers a social online learning platform that delivers over 1500 MOOCs worldwide. The MOOC was promoted widely through CareSearch and related palliat...
The Dying2Learn MOOC explored social issues around death and dying by looking at how concepts of death and care practices have changed over time, representations of dying and death in the media, and the language used to describe death and dying. The content was developed by a team of academics, educators and researchers with clinical knowledge and ...
Information on the participants and on their attitudes to death was collected as part of enrolment process for the MOOC. The participants also completed an evaluation survey and completed the death attitudes questions again as part of reflection activities in the last week of the MOOC. The OpenLearning platform enabled passive collection of MOOC ac...
Socio-Demographic Background was collected through five questions at the point of MOOC enrolment. Participants were asked to provide their age in years, and the gender they identify with (with 5 options of male, female, Trans, other, or prefer not to disclose). Given the very small number of participants utilizing the latter 3 options (n = 14), whe...
This study analyses data based on enrolment in the MOOC, MOOC engagement, and evaluation of the MOOC embedded in a final activity of the course. On completion of the MOOC, data extraction was facilitated by the team at OpenLearning, and was de-identified prior to data analyses. All analyses included a large sample size (ranging from a minimum of n ...
- Jennifer Tieman, Lauren Miller-Lewis, Deb Rawlings, Deborah Parker, Christine Ruth Sanderson
- 2018
A Massive Open Online Course, Dying2Learn, was designed to foster community death conversations and strengthen community awareness of palliative care and death as a normal process. This exploratory study used a pre-post prospective design to determine if participation in Dying2Learn and exposure to …
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Sep 7, 2020 · Professor Jennifer Tieman, Director of CareSearch and the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death and Dying at Flinders University, discusses the aims of Dying2Learn and how the online course offers the Australian general community the chance to learn and talk about death and dying.
