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FutureLearn courses 

On Demand and CPD Accredited

Learn together with eye health professionals from different cadres, countries and contexts on our FutureLearn courses.

The following FutureLearn courses are available On Demand and CPD Accredited, and can be accessed anytime. This means you can take the course at your own pace. Engage with other learners using the comments and discussion section.

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Glaucoma: A Public Health Approach to Preventing Blindness

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Retinopathy of Prematurity: Practical Approaches to Prevent Blindness

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Diabetic Eye Disease: Building Capacity To Prevent Blindness

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Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services

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Eliminating Trachoma

 

Course details

Course start date: Anytime

Cost: Free

Open study courses at LSHTM 

Study our two ophthalmic epidemiology courses at a time and pace that suits you.

Take the course at your own pace. Engage with other learners using the comments and discussion section. 

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Ophthalmic Epidemiology 1. Basic Principles

Learn the key features and examine the uses of the main epidemiology study types for eye care. Understand the key concepts of prevalence and incidence, explore the causes and distribution of visual impairment in populations, learn about key epidemiological study designs and assess their strengths and limitations for studying eye disease.

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Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2. Application to Eye Disease

Learn the key features, and examine the uses, of epidemiology for eye care. Critically analyse the different features of the main epidemiological study designs and discover how they are used to address different research questions in eye health. 

Course details

Course start date: Anytime

Cost: Free

Open education webinars

2018 ICEH Open Education webinar series on “Technology enhanced teaching and learning for health professionals”
View 3 webinars with ICEH and co-hosted with the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT), explores how health professionals around the world are increasingly using digital technologies to prepare for practice, keep their knowledge and skills updated and train others.

2017 ICEH Open Education webinar series
View 5 webinars with ICEH staff  and Open Education experts from around the world exploring how eye health educators can use digital communication technologies to innovate and improve teaching practice and address some of big challenges facing human resources development  and global eye care training.

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2018 ICEH Open Education webinar series

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2017 ICEH Open Education webinar series

Open education resources

  • LEARN: Improve your eye health practice by participating in one of our Open courses and applying the learning.
  • SHARE: Support eye health teaching and learning beyond the course by downloading the OER materials and sharing them with colleagues or the team.
  • TEACH: Include the course content in local residency training or as part lifelong learning for professionals, or support our courses as a facilitator*
  • IMPROVE: Advocate for life-long learning in your setting, create and contribute to the OER materials, send us feedback or adapt and re-use the OER in local training.

* requires public health and ophthalmic training

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