Creating a platform to enable collaborative learning in One Health: The Joint Initiative for Teaching and Learning on Global Health Challenges and One Health experience

Abstract

The “Joint Initiative for Teaching and Learning on Global Health Challenges and One Health” targets education and training in Global Health Challenges and One Health, focusing on surpassing issues that affect One Health training programs. The present work describes the planning, implementation, and challenges to develop an international educational initiative among six partner institutions from four different countries, to build a collaborative teaching and learning environment. The course applies collaborative online international learning principles and is addressed to graduate students of universities from Brazil, Germany, Mozambique, and Kosovo. A pilot curriculum was developed with modules on intercultural competence, interprofessional and collaborative practice in One Health; One Health; healthcare, surveillance, and One Health; bioethics in One Health and careers in Global Health. The course combines synchronous and asynchronous activities developed in groups by mixing students from different institutions and countries. Forty-four experts from 22 institutions of the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia collaborated with the course content. Some challenges to implementing the course were the different criteria to assign credits across institutions, the lack of bibliographic material across all partners, limited overlap hours and periods for synchronous activities, and short semester overlap across institutions. Despite the challenges for implementation, the entire process of planning and delivering the course involves intense international collaboration, contributing to the curriculum internationalization, benefiting all institutions involved, promoting exchange even in the challenging scenario of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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“…The design of shared disciplines at the post-graduate level by applying the Collaborative Online International Learning concept has also been an initiative to promote One Health among different professionals in Brazil and other countries (28) LMU. The JITOHealth targets education and training, focusing on surpassing the lack of collaborative approach, absence of cross-cultural experiences, and unequal distribution of scholarly resources in One Health, with experts from 22 institutions of the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia collaborating with the course content.…”

“…The design of shared disciplines at the post-graduate level by applying the Collaborative Online International Learning concept has also been an initiative to promote One Health among different professionals in Brazil and other countries ( 28 ). The Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), in partnership with Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), and universities from Mozambique (Catholic University of Mozambique), Germany (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - LMU - and Technical University of Munich), and Kosovo (Kolegji AAB), developed the “Joint Initiative for Teaching and Learning on Global Health Challenges and One Health” (JITOHealth) in 2020, financed by the Center for International Health at LMU.…”

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