20091108 Aamc Health Oer Hanss

1.Co-Developing Health OpenEducational Resources Ted Hanss Director, Enabling Technologies 9 November 2009 Copyright 2009 The University of Michigan. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit . AAMC Annual Conference - Boston

Definition of Health Open EducationalResources (OER)

Health OER Activities

Example

Educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and, under some licenses, to re-mix, improve, and re-distribute [Wikipedia]

Developed with and for health care providers at all levels (students to professionals) and in all disciplines

Make teaching and learning resources easier to reuse for your community and for people everywhere

Increase collaboration across institutions and disciplines

Use innovative software tools and explore research opportunities

Support the mission of the university

Dean Woolliscroft commits the Medical School to publishing all of its pre-clinical materials as OER

Part of the vision to be a global medical school and a recognized innovator in medical education

Medical School and the School of Information collaborate on developing student-centered dScribe publishing process

All U-M health science deans pledge their support

Health OER planning grant submitted to Hewlett Foundation

U-M President Mary Sue Coleman leads delegation to Ghana and South Africa(February and March)

Hewlett Foundation awards planning grantwith additional support from Soros and FAIMER (March)

Health OER workshop in Ghana (May)

dScribe development and materials piloting

Grant writing trip in Africa (July)

Institute of Medicine meeting (September)

Hewlett awards Design Phase grant (Nov)

Any long-term solution to the global health crisis requiresinvestment in human resources .

Only well-trained health providers can ensure:

Achievement of the UNs Millennium Development Goals,

Implementation of global vaccination and medication distribution, and

Preparation for the nextepidemic

Health OER Design Phase partnership ofU-M, OER Africa, University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), and University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape (South Africa)

Hold policy/sensitization workshops

Identify curricular needs

Emphasis on co-creation of OERs that work in respective local contexts

Research aims

Assess capacity to collaborate

Design framework for assessing OER use and effect on learning outcomes and faculty productivity

A long term logic model and sustainable, scalable, collaborative content development programs for comprehensive, open health professions curricula.

Ghana Michigan Collaborative Health Alliance for Reshaping Training, Education, and Research (CHARTER)

Two year human resources for health planning grant awarded in Nov 2008

Partnership of U-M, UG, KNUST, Ghana Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service

OER processes embedded in education goals

Laparoscopic skills training byDr. Jonathon Finks to Medical and Surgical Skills Institute at the Univ. of Ghana

Enthusiastic early adopter faculty

Strong institutional leadership

High student interest

Local training programs

Intra-institutional partnerships (e.g., between College of Health Sciences and Dept of Communications and Design)

Policy challenges

IP ownership, faculty incentives (e.g., promotion, release time)

Infrastructure challenges

Connectivity, bandwidth, servers and support

Stronger and broader networks (inter-institutional, sharing of skills/interests)