CommCare In the Classroom
Students around the world are using CommCare to develop their digital health skills. Learn how your students can benefit!
Overview
Since 2011, CommCare has been leveraged in classrooms around the world to teach valuable real-world skills and enhance student learning. Application development and data optimization with CommCare is taught across a range of subjects including Mobile Health, Social Impact, ICT4D, Health Informatics, M&E, Health Communications and more.
Resource for Universities & Academic Institutions
Are you interested in introducing CommCare to your students? Check out our resources below!
Free CommCare Licenses
Dimagi offers pro bono software licenses to courses that are using CommCare as a learning tool. If you are interested in getting this set up, please submit a pro bono request below.
https://www.commcarehq.org/pro_bono/
Online Learning Content
Have your students dive into the process of building their own digital health applications in systems, guided by our online Dimagi Academy courses. These online courses are free, and can be done at your own pace.
Digital Health Syllabus
Building your own digital health syllabus, or looking for ways to incorporate CommCare? Check out this digital health syllabus from Dimagi! This was built based on inputs from several professors and classrooms around the world who have incorporate CommCare into their courses.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VSe6bcxHtbdhGIf7mSUHkf6mowNYtcqzq0OwaB8cZpc/edit
CommCare For Your Own Research
Outside of the classroom, numerous academic organizations are using CommCare to support research initiatives. Learn more about how you or your students can leverage CommCare for your own research.
Spotlight: Boston University School of Public Health
For more than 10 years, Boston University School of Public Health has taught CommCare in their graduate-level digital health course. You can see some projects that students worked on below!
Testimonials
“CommCare is the epicenter of our course, Using Mobile Technology to Improve Health Outcomes. Working in partnership with Dimagi since the course’s inception 10 years ago, our graduate-student teams have built mobile applications using CommCare for more than 40 healthcare organizations around the world. We’ve integrated Dimagi Academy to help our student teams rapidly build their CommCare application-development skills. For our students, CommCare app-building skills are valuable in the job market.”
– James Wolff, Associate Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health
“Commcare is hands-down the most versatile & user-friendly digital health platform for practitioners and educators. I have embraced CommCare to facilitate group exercises for university learners ranging from undergraduate business students learning about mobile technology and social impact, to graduate public-health students with global health specializations. Dimagi has a wealth of tutorials and guides, and their product team is incredibly responsive and supportive to educators.”
– Ryan Littman-Quinn, Managing for Social Impact Faculty & Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Boston College
“It was a pleasure and privilege to host Dev More from Dimagi to talk about Commcare in my ‘Health Communication' course held at Habib University during spring semester in 2022 in Pakistan. The country is facing a myriad of health issues and CommCare’s technological infrastructure and user-friendly design can be significantly instrumental in reducing the gap between healthcare providers and communities. I highly recommend CommCare for wide scale use in Pakistan!”
– Syed Ali Hussein, Assistant Professor, Habib University