Coming Soon: The Online Communities of Practice (CoPs) for Global Health course hosted on the Global Health eLearning (GHeL) Center. Online CoPs have become increasingly popular within the global health and development sectors as a vehicle for capturing knowledge to ensure public health preparedness, effective information management, and virtual collaboration. Online CoPs provide a virtual space for people who share a common interest and are working towards a shared goal. This course aims to give the learner an overview of online CoPs, including the uses, benefits, and challenges of building, nurturing, and monitoring them.The course is authored by Jarret Cassaniti of JHU∙CCP and Soma Ghosal of NetHope. It is expected to be published September 2014.
