Table 1.

MOOC Module Overview and Activity Review

Activities	N Activity Views	N Activity Completions	% Activity Completions
Introduction Module
Introduce yourself! [Comment]	1520	680	76.0%
3 Words to describe feelings about death [Submission]	2737	653	73.0%
How did you find us? [Comment]	723	661	73.9%
MOOC experience and motivations [Private Survey]	724	640	71.5%
Module 1: How we engage with death and dying
Reflection on ‘No Laughing Matter’ [Comment]	1221	537	60.0%
Find a Joke for ‘No Laughing Matter’ [Submission]	1912	425	47.5%
Words are not enough - Euphemisms [Submission]	2021	505	56.4%
Reflection on ‘How do people engage with death and dying?’ [Comment]	901	440	49.2%
Design your own roadside memorial/eulogy/headstone [Submission]	1710	395	44.1%
Module 2: Representations of death
Historical death bed paintings [Comment]	1067	396	44.2%
Two films depicting death [Submission]	1549	357	39.9%
Death in TV Dramas and Documentaries [Comment]	636	344	38.4%
Death and dying in other mediums [Comment]	684	337	37.7%
Module 3: If death is the Problem… is medicine the answer?
The best way to go [Submission]	1318	308	34.4%
Reflections on “Being Mortal” [Comment]	816	296	33.1%
Prolonging Life Prolonging Death Live Chat [Comment]	2022	306	34.2%
Module 4: Digital Dying
My Digital Selection [Comment]	743	286	32.0%
Create a Deathwise Communication [Submission]	2227	320	35.8%
Final Reflections Module
3 words describing death Revisited [Submission]	815	227	25.4%
Before I die I want to…. [Comment]	351	228	25.5%
A final Challenge: If I was health minister [Submission]	804	217	24.2%
Reflection Questions [Private Survey]	485	155	17.3%
Spreading the word? [Comment]	328	170	19.0%
Light-bulb moments [Comment]	297	172	19.2%

Note. The square brackets [] indicate the way in which participants were able to respond to the module, i.e. via comment, submission or private survey