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ERIC Number: EJ1452657
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1043-4046
EISSN: EISSN-1522-1229
Upskilling the Cell Therapy Manufacturing Workforce: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Massive Open Online Course
Mingyu Yang; Flora J. Keumurian; Caleb Neufeld; Elizabeth Skrip; John Duguid; Humberto Vega-Mercado; Reeta P. Rao; Marsha W. Rolle; Stacy L. Springs; Jacqueline M. Wolfrum; Paul W. Barone; Krystyn J. Van Vliet
Advances in Physiology Education, v48 n4 p733-741 2024
Cell therapies have gained prominence as a promising therapeutic modality for treating a range of diseases. Despite the recent clinical successes of cell therapy products, very few formal training programs exist for cell therapy manufacturing. To meet the demand for a well-trained workforce, we assembled a team of university researchers and industry professionals to develop an online course on the principles and practice of cell therapy manufacturing. The course covers the basic cell and systems physiology underlying cell therapy products, in addition to explaining end-to-end manufacturing from cell acquisition through to patient treatment, industrialization, and regulatory processes. As of September 2023, >10,000 learners have enrolled in the course, and >90% of respondents to the course exit survey indicated that they were "very likely" or "likely" to recommend the course to a peer. In this article, we discuss our experience in the collaborative design and implementation of the online course as well as lessons learned from quantitative and qualitative student feedback. We believe that this course can serve as a model for how academia and industry can collaborate to create innovative, scalable training programs to meet the demands of the modern biotechnology workforce.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (DOC)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: 70NANB17H002