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Introduction to Health Open Educational Resources

Ted Hanss, U-MNovember 21, 2011

HEALTH Alliance OER workshop

Slides posted at: http://openmi.ch/halliance-oer

what is OER?why OER?African Health OER

Network

Educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and licensed to be adaptable by others.

OCWMaterials associated with a specific course in an institution that have been licensed to be adaptable to others.

Unrestricted (free) access to online articles, data, knowledge and information for the public good.

Open Access

The difference between OA, OER & OCW

OA: Open Access

OER: Open Educational Resources

OCW: Open CourseWare

OA focuses on sharing content, but no underlying licensing requirement.

OER includes any educational content that is shared under an open license.

OCW focuses on sharing open content that is developed specifically to instruct a course (locally taught). OCW is a subset of OER.

OA

OER

OCW

So, how can you distinguish OER?

Photo by wakingtiger

Open Licenses make it all possible.

OER *mostly* usesCreative Commons Licenses

All Rights Reserved(default)

Creative Commons

Some Rights Reserved

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work but only if they give you credit.

BY :: Attribution

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work but for noncommercial purposes only.

NC :: Noncommercial

You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work as long as any derivative work is licensed under the same license.

SA :: Share Alike

You let others copy, distribute, and display your copyrighted work only if no changes, derivatives, are made.

ND :: No derivatives

OER Creative Commons: licenses

X X

Public Domain

least restrictive most restrictive

Adaptability means…TranslationLocalization

Bridge materialsInnovation

Collaboration

All Rights Reserved

Sharing

Learning

Creativity

“3 Robots Remix” by jimyounkin CC: BY-NC-SAhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jimyounkin/2383652/in/photostream/

“Untitled” by Erik B CC: BY-NChttp://www.flickr.com/photos/erikb/2378157/

From THIS… …to THIS

what is OER?why OER?African Health OER

Network

benefits of OER: for the university

share expertise and curricula with other institutions

recruit better students

decrease duplication, increase efficiency

increase university’s reputation globally

benefits of OER: for faculty

recognition for their teaching

publish and promote their resources

connect with other collaborators

extend their reach and visibility

benefits of OER: faculty perspective from University Ghana (UG)

The U-M Medical and Dental schools collaborate with several African universities for health OER

faculty perspective from UGIn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHLFSFhvBpAtheir own words:

what is OER?why OER?African Health OER

Network

CHALLENGE

The inadequate density and distribution of healthcare providers negatively affects health outcomes around the globe. This is especially true in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.

Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.

CONTEXT:FACULTY CAPACITY

• A key barrier is the lack of instructor capacity to teach basic and clinical sciences. – Example: Ghana medical schools can only

admit 30% of qualified applicants.

• This is complicated by the duplication of effort in developing learning materials.

Ward Rounds. Photo by: University of Ghana. Ward Rounds at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Photo by: Cary Engleberg

CONTEXT: CROWDED WARD ROUNDS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjJe8ZJkJU (1 min, KNUST Student)

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and

Technology (KNUST) (Ghana)

Peter Donkor

Pro Vice Chancellor, former Provost of the

College of Health Sciences

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR31aCaj60Q

(90 seconds)

WHY OER?

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Photo by: The Regents of the University of Michigan

WHY OER?

When you look in textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases. The cases may be pretty similar but sometimes it can be confusing when you see something that you see on a white skin so nicely and very easy to pick up, but on the dark skin it has a different manifestation that may be difficult to see. Sometimes it is difficult for the students to appreciate when they see a clinical case that involves an African. I think that [locally developed] OER will go a long way in helping the students appreciate the cases that we see in our part of the world.

-Richard Phillips, lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, KNUST

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

WHAT IS “THE NETWORK”?

The mission of the African Health OER Network is to advance health education in Africa by using open educational resources (OER) developed by and targeted toward Africans in order to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and support communities around health education.

History of the African Health OER Network

PARTICIPANT MAP - INDIVIDUALS

85 Individuals Signed Declaration of Support

http://batchgeo.com/map/d70937ef6be461a3571274817b590a52

PARTICIPANT MAP ORGANIZATIONS

http://batchgeo.com/map/a70a5bf6278d936e23737b968fc5317c

19 Organizations Signed Declaration of Support

• OER Africa• University of Michigan• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology• University of Ghana • University of Cape Town • University of the Western Cape • University of Malawi• Makerere University• EBW Healthcare• Global Health Informatics Partnership• MedEdPORTAL

APPROACH

• The Network is building the socio-technical infrastructure to draw in more African and, eventually, global participants, while also developing models of collaboration and sustainability that can be replicated in other regions of the world.

ACTIVITIES: TRAINING/WORKSHOPS

OER Africa Convening, 2011. Photo by: Saide.

ACTIVITIES: MENTORING/CONSULTING

Photo by: Re-ality (Flickr)

Photo by: Sara Grajeda (Flickr)

Students in line for computer lab at University of GhanaPhoto by: The Regents of the University of Michigan (flickr)

Dkscully (flickr)

ACTIVITIES: PLATFORMS & DISTRIB.

Power outages are common. Bandwidth is very expensive.

OER is distributed offline and online by authoring institutions and the two Network co-facilitators, OER Africa and U-M.

Learn more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMiObNC3KYI (12 minutes)

IMPACT -ALUMNI

University of Ghana

http://www.youtu.be/zzh1wybPf6o

(1:30 min)

University of Ghana. Photo by: The Regents of the University of Michigan.

IMPACT• Participants are interested in connecting

with colleagues at other institutions for the purpose of sharing knowledge.

• At least 5 institutions have used or adapted OER from elsewhere.

• Two institutions have successfully integrated students into the design process for OER, freeing up faculty time for other activities.

CONCLUDING REMARKSOER is seen as means to streamlining health education, not an end in itself.

“Share your ideas” by britbohlinger

QUESTIONS

Email: healthoer@oerafrica.org

Websiteshttp://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer (primary)

http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/

Many slides in this presentation were produced in collaboration with Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Greg Grossmeier, Emily Puckett Rodgers, and Susan Topol.