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A new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)  begins next week. The course is available to anyone at no cost (regardless of location or institution affiliation) and will run approximately 5-weeks. The content should be valuable to anyone interested in data collection/management and clinical & translational research. The organisers will be leveraging REDCap in the course for examples and assignments, but the material will focus primarily on higher level principles.
This course is designed to teach important concepts related to research data planning, collection, storage and dissemination. The course will offer information and best-practice guidelines for 1) investigator-initiated & sponsored research studies, 2) single- & multi-center studies, and 3) prospective data collection & secondary-reuse of clinical data for purposes of research. The curriculum will balance theoretical guidelines with the use of practical tools designed to assist in planning and conducting research. Real-world research examples, problem solving exercises and hands-on training will ensure students are comfortable with all concepts.
If you're interested in taking the course, please click on the link below and sign up through the Coursera website.
https://www.coursera.org/course/datamanagement

  • GHN_Editors The Editorial Team 24 Sep 2013

    Dear Ndonwi

    thank you for your comment. That's excellent news! The one shown here is not actually part of the Network, we are just helping to promote it on behalf of the organisers (we try to share any training opportunities we find that are free or open access). I hope you find this useful, and also continue to take Global Health Trials' own courses!

    If you have any questions just let us know.
    Kind regards
    The Editorial Team

  • ngwaelvis73 NDONWI ELVIS NGWA 23 Sep 2013

    Global health trial courses have helped me acquire a lot of knowledge in areas as research protocol, research question.