Managing Children with Clubfoot Course - Evaluation Report

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Original Editor - Username Top Contributors - Candace Goh, Kim Jackson and Chelsea Mclene

Summary

In November/December 2017 Physiopedia, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Global Clubfoot Initiative (GCI) successfully delivered the Managing Children with Clubfoot Massive Open Online Course (Clubfoot MOOC) via the Physiopedia Plus online learning platform. In collaboration with Humanity & Inclusion (HI) there was a concurrent French version of the course.

Course Type ​- Open, Online

Course Co-ordinators ​- Rachael Lowe, Barbara Rau, Rosalind Owen

Collaborating Partners ​- Physiopedia, ICRC and GCI

About this course​ - This online course covers basic theoretical knowledge of managing children with clubfoot. There was an English and a parallel French version of the course.

Who was the course aimed at​ - The course was written for physiotherapy clinicians, students and assistants; other healthcare professionals interested in this subject were welcomed to participate.

Time commitment ​- 16 hours over 4 weeks

Date ​– 6 November to 3 December 2017 (final date of free course 31 Dec 2017; the course remains available on the Physiopedia Plus platform to members)

Requirements​ – Participants were required to complete online learning activities, engage with additional resources, take part in the conversation online and complete the course evaluation.Assessment​ - There was a final quiz and participants could optionally complete an assignment to demonstrate their learning.

Awards​ - Completion certificate plus 16 Physiopedia Plus (PP+) points.

Accreditation​ - The course was accredited by the South African Society of Physiotherapy (16 CEUs) and The Federation of State Board of Physical Therapy (10 CEUs)

Registrations​ - 7,277 (7153 English course and 124 French course)

Countries represented​ - 156 (156 English course and 13 French course)

Started the course​ - 2250 (2033 English course and 217 French course)

Passed final quiz​ - 805 (693 English course and 112 French course)

Received completion certificate​ - 405 (342 English course and 63 French course)

Acknowledgements

The Clubfoot MOOC was developed as a collaboration between Physiopedia, ICRC and GCI. Physiopedia and ICRC provided funding. The ​ACT Team​ and partners, including the University of Oxford, CURE International and Global Clubfoot Initiative kindly provided content for the course, which was supplemented with additional material from global experts. HI completed the French translation of the course.

Course coordinators:

●  Rachael Lowe, Physiopedia

●  Barbara Rau, ICRC

●  Rosalind Owen, GCI

Course facilitators:

●  Aijaz Rather, ICRC, India

●  Elia Bernabeu, ICRC, Sudan

●  Santosh George, ICRC, India

●  Prem Saggurthi, ICRC, Ethiopia

●  Gul Zaman, ICRC, Pakistan

●  Denise Watson, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, UK

●  Christine Douglas, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, UK

●  Mohommad Mamun Hossen Chowdhury​, Walk For Life, Bangladesh

●  Martin Jacobs, HI, Belgium

●  Graziella Lippolis, HI, Belgium

●  Ben Gwilliam, Australia

●  Debro Mashoro, ICRC, Zimbabwe

●  Nicolas Peeters, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Belgium

For any information regarding this report, please contact: Rachael Lowe - [email protected]

Introduction

During November and December 2017 Physiopedia ran their sixth Massive Open Online Course titled Managing Children with Clubfoot (Clubfoot MOOC). The course was developed as a collaboration between Physiopedia, ICRC and GCI. The ​ACT Team​ and partners, including the University of Oxford, CURE International and Global Clubfoot Initiative kindly provided content for the course, which was supplemented with additional material from global experts. A French version of the course, translated and facilitated by HI, ran concurrently.

The aim of the Clubfoot MOOC was to train the distributed team of ICRC staff and partners to have a basic understanding of the theoretical knowledge that underpins the management of children with clubfoot. The content of the course was designed for physiotherapists in any global context, all healthcare workers from any location and context were invited to participate. Being open for anyone to participate allowed for global conversation around the topic and enabled peer-to-peer learning across contexts and experiences.

The four week course presented different topics each week through a variety of learning activities to suit all learning styles. The required learning activities each week were proposed to take between 4-6 hours depending on the participant's learning style and optional activities were provided should the participant wish to take part in additional learning. A short orientation period before the course started provided participants with an opportunity to become familiar with the delivery platform and the topic via the provided pre-course resources.

The course was delivered through the Physiopedia Plus (PP+) online learning platform, an innovative platform specifically developed to deliver online education and provide learners with a personalised learning dashboard. Each week the new learning activities were released on a specific course page. As participants engaged with each learning activity it was recorded and displayed in their own personal learning dashboard.

To finish the course participants were required to complete all the required learning activities and pass a final quiz that tested knowledge. There was an optional assignment to demonstrate their learning. On completion of the course the participants could download a completion certificate and also export a record of their learning from their activity log.

This report evaluates the experiences and engagement of the participants on the Clubfoot MOOC.