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Massive Open Online Course (MOCC) is an emerging mode of higher education across the world. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent campus closure worldwide, its potential became more apparent. The Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) had been running the global web-based Health-EDRM course “Public Health Principles in Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response” from 2014 to 2019 to build disaster resilience in a doubt sense: for its users as receivers of education service and for the higher educational institution as the provider. A total of 7,749 participants from more than 150 countries registered for the Health-EDRM online course, with an exceptionally high course completion rate of 23.21%. Drawing on the capacity and resilience built up by this preparedness activity, CCOUC was running another 10 global Health-EDRM MOOCs in English and two in Chinese during the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the same time collaborating with academic units and programmes at its parent The Chinese University of Hong Kong to offer these courses for fulfilling students’ course requirements. Thousands of students across the world were benefited, particularly those in developing countries in Asia and Africa. This chapter will explore this successful higher education institution resilience building experience.
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Chan, E.Y.Y., Wong, C.S., Lo, E.S.K., Huang, Z. (2022). Applying New Technologies and Innovation in Hong Kong: Teaching Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health–EDRM) Using Massive Open Online Course to Enhance Resilience in Higher Educational Institutions. In: Izumi, T., Pal, I., Shaw, R. (eds) Safety and Resilience of Higher Educational Institutions. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1193-4_12
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