[Backstage of a massive open online course (MOOC) on cancer diagnosis]

Charlotte Gardair; Guilhem Bousquet; Jacqueline Lehmann-Che; Cédric de Bazelaire; Patricia de Cremoux; Jeanne Tran Van Nhieu; Marie Sockeel; Maxime Battistella; Julien Calvani; Jocelyne Gervais; Yohann Pottier; Laurent Prévaut; Karima Sekri; Philippe Bertheau

doi:10.1016/j.annpat.2016.08.013

[Backstage of a massive open online course (MOOC) on cancer diagnosis]

Ann Pathol. 2016 Oct;36(5):305-311. doi: 10.1016/j.annpat.2016.08.013. Epub 2016 Sep 14.

[Article in French]

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10, rue Françoise-Dolto, 75013 Paris, France; Service d'anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, CHU Saint-Louis, AP-HP, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France.
² Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 99, avenue Jean-Baptiste-Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse, France; Service d'oncologie, CHU Avicenne, AP-HP, 125, rue de Stalingrad, 93000 Bobigny, France.
³ Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10, rue Françoise-Dolto, 75013 Paris, France; Unité d'oncologie moléculaire, CHU Saint-Louis, AP-HP, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France.
⁴ Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10, rue Françoise-Dolto, 75013 Paris, France; Service de radiologie, CHU Saint-Louis, AP-HP, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France.
⁵ Université Paris-Est Créteil, 61, avenue du Général-de-Gaulle, 94000 Créteil, France; Département de pathologie, CHU Henri-Mondor, AP-HP, 51, avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94000 Créteil, France.
⁶ Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10, rue Françoise-Dolto, 75013 Paris, France; MédiTICE, université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10, avenue de Verdun, 75010 Paris, France.
⁷ Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10, rue Françoise-Dolto, 75013 Paris, France; Service d'anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, CHU Saint-Louis, AP-HP, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 27639771
DOI: 10.1016/j.annpat.2016.08.013

Abstract

Massive open online course (or MOOC) is a new online and open access teaching approach aimed at unlimited participation and providing interactions among students and teaching staff. These academic courses, often still free, lead to the delivery of a certificate of attendance and could soon also deliver a diploma. The MOOC "Stratégies diagnostiques des cancers" will be hosted in autumn 2016 on the platform "France Université Numérique" and will have two levels of learners: students in the field of health and biology and the general public. This MOOC will also be integrated into the teaching program of medical students of Paris Diderot University and Paris 13 University. The educational objective of this MOOC is to convey to all participants an overview of the diagnostic steps of cancers and of the various medical specialties involved in this diagnosis. The second week of the MOOC, entitled "tumor samples, macroscopic and microscopic analysis", presents the pathology specialty with the technical treatment of tissue or cell samples and the basic elements of the tissue section analysis to get a diagnosis of benign or malignant tumor. After this MOOC, it is planned to assess the impact of this new modality of teaching the pathology specialty or pathology, especially by the general public.

Keywords: Cancer; Diagnosis; Diagnostic; Internet; Massive Open Online Course (MOOC); Massive open online course (MOOC); Medical education; Médecine; Pédagogie; Teaching.

MeSH terms

Computer-Assisted Instruction*
France
Internet*
Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Pathology / education*