#MOOC at my Univerity of Cape Town.
The six-week course, titled Medicine & the Arts: Humanising Healthcare, explores the intersection of medicine, medical anthropology and the creative arts.
The theme for the [first] week is The
#heart of the matter – a matter of the heart, with Reid interviewing a heart surgeon, a poet, and a transplant recipient, in the theatre where Dr Chris Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967.
"The vast majority of MOOCs being produced in the world are offered by universities in the global north; while their students come from all over the globe. This has the effect of rendering local knowledge and curricula invisible. It is really important for universities in
#Africa and other countries in the global south to produce MOOCs based on local knowledge, experiences and curricula," [Prof Laura Czerniewicz] explains.
