The University of New Mexico’s latest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Rural Health Nursing, is focused on people interested in the problems that face health care providers when resources are scarce or culturally inappropriate. This free course, offered globally through UNM’s partnership with Coursera, is designed to help students find ways to overcome the obstacles in their own communities. Professor Amy Levi and Assistant Clinical Professor Van Roper, both from the UNM College of Nursing, are co-teaching the course.
“Dr. Van Roper and I decided to start the course to share some of the valuable resources at the UNM Health Sciences Center that support rural health, and to particularly focus on nursing,” Professor Amy Levi said. “As one of the most rural states in the U.S., we thought that we could represent the rural experience from both our personal and professional experience here in New Mexico.”
The students will prepare a community assessment and put together a project to improve health care in their local communities.