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Health Care Workers’ Motivations for Enrolling in Massive Open Online Courses During a Public Health Emergency: Descriptive Analysis

Health Care Workers’ Motivations for Enrolling in Massive Open Online Courses During a Public Health Emergency: Descriptive Analysis

Despite the increasing data on general MOOC enrollee motivations [12-15], there remains a significant gap concerning the specific factors motivating practicing health care professionals. Understanding the motivations of health care workers in LICs and LMICs to enroll in and complete health care–related MOOCs is crucial, as engagement and completion rates among this group are notably low [16-18].

Jennifer Jones, Jamie Sewan Johnston, Ngouille Yabsa Ndiaye, Anna Tokar, Saumya Singla, Nadine Ann Skinner, Matthew Strehlow, Heini Utunen

JMIR Med Educ 2024;10:e51915

The State of Open Source Electronic Health Record Projects: A Software Anthropology Study

The State of Open Source Electronic Health Record Projects: A Software Anthropology Study

In large part, the developer community and their motivations are a key determinant of success or failure of an open source project. Exploring these motivations is an important aspect of understanding a key success factor for F/OSS EHR systems. The motivation-affecting factors for open source developers can be categorized as internal (cognitive) and external (social). Internal factors are comprised of motivation, altruism, and community identification.

Mona Mohammed Alsaffar, Peter Yellowlees, Alberto Odor, Michael Hogarth

JMIR Med Inform 2017;5(1):e6

Commencing and Persisting With a Web-Based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Insomnia: A Qualitative Study of Treatment Completers

Commencing and Persisting With a Web-Based Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Insomnia: A Qualitative Study of Treatment Completers

This may have affected the ability of some participants to recall their intrinsic motivations for continuing to engage with the trial, and their recall is likely to have been influenced by their present situation. While some of the themes that emerged appear to be values based, and therefore quite static, it is likely that state variables such as time factors and frustration may not be as accurately reflected in these findings.

Charles Chan, Stacey West, Nick Glozier

J Med Internet Res 2017;19(2):e37