We are currently in the process of developing of new self-paced online e-learning course on openIMIS (initially focusing on the use case of a health financing scheme).
You can find here all related material and discussions on various topics such as the comparison of online platforms and the definition of the target group.
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whether it is open source or not.
the intended target audience for the platform
the functionality (ease of use from the provider and consumer perspective)
languages available on the platform
what type of certification and tests the platform offers/supports
maintenance requirements
cost
sustainability (dependence on funding)
| Atingi (GIZ) | Socialprotection.org | Moodle (hosted on Initiative resources) |
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Backend | Moodle | Moodle | Moodle |
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Open Source (yes/no) | yes | yes | yes |
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Target audience | Aim of the project is to provide digital teaching to young people in developing countries Suitable for entrepreneurs, farmers, students e-Health identified as key topic Focus countries: Benin, Togo, Rwanda, Niger
| Member-based knowledge sharing and capacity building platform. Open to social protection practitioners, policy-makers, experts as well as academics and students. Aim is to foster global knowledge sharing on social protection policies.
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Functionality (provider & consumer) | Based on Moodle (migration phase) Provides good functionalities especially interfaces Self-paced courses, blended learning, mobile learning
| Based on Moodle Many functionalities for the user (text, audio, video, blogs, news, webinars, events, programme profiles) Can make course very simple but also with more web design, which takes more effort. additionally offers community space (e.g. to allow interactivity in extension of self-paced, simple e-learning courses) any course needs to be linked to stakeholder profiles of/registered in the platform (e.g. GIZ) on organisation level
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Languages | English, French, Spanish at the moment Easy with Moodle to translate into many languages (e-based translation systems)
| The platform runs in English, French and Spanish. All courses at the moment are in English but they are in the process of translating one of them into French.
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Tests & certification | | | Moodle offers only basic certification If more advanced certification is required, effort needed to develop
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Cost | | Free access & use We can host the course for free if we have the ready made Moodle-based scorm package. They can also help with developing the course if we provide the content (they do develop courses from scratch, including content). Very flexible in terms of what we would need.
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Sustainability | | | |
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Maintenance requirements | | Technical maintenance will be performed by the platform. If any content updates are needed, this would come from GIZ.
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Target audience
We have agreed that we want to define one specific user profile that we will use as a pilot for developing the trainings e-learning course and then expand to other user profiles, if time and capacity allows. Our understanding is that the regional hubs would be targets of interest however, we need to nail down, within the regional hubs, what kind of user profile we want to direct the course at. It would be helpful to understand a bit more and important mediators to the inital target group. In consultationts with implementers (IC call) and the regional hubs the user profile was further specified. Especially the exchange with AeHIN allowed to better understand the pool of competencies found within the regional hubs (health financing/economics experts, medical experts, IT experts etc.) and if they have any preferences. Do we want them to in the end have a basic The learning focus was discussed: To what extend do we aim at course participants acquiring (basic) knowledge of the software or should they be able to actually advise and/or build up expertise to advise scheme operators on implementation? All interesting points where we would appreciate your thoughts.
Outcome of discussion during IC call 03.02:
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Target Group | Subgroups | Course Focus & Prerequisite Knowledge | Comments |
Government officials | | | Higher level officials very unlikely to undertake an e-learning course. For the lower-level "implementing" officials it is important to note that the e-learning will not replace the trainings involved with an implementation project.
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Academia | | | Issue with targeting academia is that the intention is not that students will go to implementer and promote the technology for implementation Is there another profile within academia (not student level) that has this middle-man role (PhD students with links to the government). Specific faculties would need to be identified and openIMIS e-learning course should be specifically promoted to these; contents of the course should work as an augmentation to their curriculum
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Software developers | | | |
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