This article introduces a special issue journal produced by Global Health Action, focusing on ‘an important set of insights into both the opportunities and the challenges that accompany multi-institute, blended-learning health research training.
This educational approach clearly presents huge possibilities for a genuinely global exchange of skills and capacities, and it also represents an invaluable supplement to traditional, face-to-face university-based learning as well as to the MOOCs that provide free, but usually unaccredited, education to anyone with an Internet connection.’
