This workshop was given to first and second year residents in the department of obstetrics and gynecology in St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College (www.sphmmc.edu.et). The goals of the 45 minute workshop were threefold: - Share 3 groups of free learning resources available for health and for OBGYN. - Show you how you can access some of these resources offline from the institutional Learning Resource Center. - Share 2 options for increasing visibility for learning resources that you create. For more about the offline access point, see http://open.umich.edu/connect/projects#wanoffline.

1. Free and Open
Information Resources
Available for OBGYN
Education
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo,
University of Michigan Medical School
Shared at: slideshare.net/tag/sphmmc-obgyn-2015
Presentation to St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College OBGYN
Department, January 29, 2015.
Copyright 2015 The Regents of the University of Michigan.
Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution License. 1

2. Who am I?
Previous Role: International Program Manager
for an office within Medical School Information
Services that focused on creating technology
and electronic resources for medical education.
Current Role: Strategy Officer in the
Department of Learning Health Sciences.
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3. Who am I?
I am not a health professional, but I work with
them.
At SPHMMC, my role is to support SPHMMC in
becoming an exemplar in the integration of ICT
for productivity, collaboration, and analysis
across the education, research, and clinical
service missions.
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4. Overall Goal for OBGYN
Make it easier for you to find, to access, and to
create your own educational resources for
OBGYN at SPHMMC
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5. Session Goal for OBGYN
1. Share with you 3 groups of free learning
resources that you can use for health and
for OBGYN.
1. Show you how you can access some of
these resources offline from the Learning
Resource Center.
1. Share with you 2 options for increasing
visibility for learning resources that you
create.
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Free, Open Resources for Health & OBGYN
Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and

7. Open Educational
Resources (OER)
Educational resources with three qualities:
1. Free
2. Publicly available
3. Licensed to allow copies, adaptations,
and distribution
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This license
graphic is
the easiest
way to tell if
something
is OER.

9. What does this mean?
CC = Creative Commons Licenses
This means a resource is “some rights
reserved instead of “all rights reserved.”
You can legally copy, share, and modify
these resources with only few rules.
These can be made available offline.
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10. Open Health Collections
www.open.umich.edu/education/med/openheal
th
Great starting point to find health OER from
dozens of institutions around the world –
including courses, books, videos, graphics,
data, journals, software, and other content.
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11. GLOWM
The Global Library of Women’s Medicine
www.glowm.com
Thousands of resources, includes hundreds of
book chapters, all for health professionals who
work in maternal and child health.
These do not have use Creative Commons
licenses but have custom licenses that allow
copying – including for offline. 11

12. GLOWM
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Source:
www.glowm.com

13. 1000 OBGYNs in Africa
• www.1000obgyns.org
• Consortium of 18 African Institutions and
partner U.S. institutions for OBGYN residency
• Book and 3 collections at
www.open.umich.edu/education/med/1000obg
yns/ for OER specifically for OBGYN
• Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
• OBGYN Hot/Priority Topics
• Curriculum Milestone Topics
• Includes resources by SPHMMC colleagues 13

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Source:
www.open.umich.edu
/education/med/1000
obgyns/

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Demo: Offline Access
Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)

16. Library Box, Rpi, BPi
• These are offline WiFi access points you
may see on campus, including in the
Learning Resource Center.
• All of these devices broadcast the contents
of a USB flash drive and/or SD card to
people within range of the access point.
• These were designed to share files locally
when the Internet is down.
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17. Bpi Offline Access:
Try it now
• Connect to WiFi network: OER-Bpi.
• Open a web-browser (e.g. Internet app on
Android (not Opera), Firefox, Chrome)
• In address bar, type https://192.168.42.1/
• Click Accept or Proceed for security notice
• Browse the Learning Resources Collection
• Search the collections, from drop-down,
select Learning Resources, enter search
phrase, select all file types
• Browse Additional Disks to download this
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18. Offline
What’s on there:
• 1000 OBGYN
• Other resources selected from Open Health
Collections
What’s coming:
• GLOWM collection
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19. Share Your Feedback
Let us what you think about the resources
• Are you able to access them?
• Are you able to navigate the collection?
• Is what you find useful and relevant?
• Would you like to see additional topics?
• Do you have suggestions for other free and open
resources to add?
• If you are connected to Rpi or Bpi, there is a
survey you can complete on the device.
• I will drop off paper surveys in LRC.
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Create and Share Your Own Resources
Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)

21. Free Websites to Create
and/or Share OER
Both of these tools are used to share public
learning resources and ask to you select
Creative Commons licenses. These make your
creations more visible around the world:
• www.mededportal.org - You can submit to
have your resources peer-reviewed and
include them on your curriculum vitae.
• www.mdcases.net - You can create short,
interactive cases, and quizzes.
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Source: www.mededportal.org

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Source:
www.mdcases.net

24. Questions?
Email me:
kludewig@umich.edu
Access these slides:
slideshare.net/tag/sphmm
c-obgyn-2015
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Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)