The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first web-based learning course on COVID-19 on January 26, 2020, four days before the director general of the WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern. The WHO is expanding access to web-based learning for COVID-19 through its open-learning platform for health emergencies, OpenWHO. Throughout the pandemic, OpenWHO has continued to publish learning offerings based on the WHO's emerging evidence-based knowledge for managing the COVID-19 pandemic. This study presents the various findings derived from the analysis of the performance of the OpenWHO platform during the pandemic, along with the core benefits of massive web-based learning formats.
Keywords: COVID-19; OpenWHO; World Health Organization; e-learning; massive open web-based courses; pandemic; public health; web-based learning.
©Heini Utunen, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Anna Tokar, Gillian O'Connell, Gaya M Gamhewage, Ibrahima Socé Fall. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (https://publichealth.jmir.org), 21.04.2021.