Health OER: Harnessing OER to Develop Health Education Systems in Africa

Health OER Harnessing OER to Develop Health Education Systems in Africa OCWC Annual Conference Hanoi, Vietnam 5 - 7 May 2010

INTRODUCING OER AFRICA

Who we are
OER Africa is a Saide endeavour, headquartered in Nairobi and established to play a leading role in driving the development and use of OER in Africa.
OER Africa brings together all of Saide ’s OER-related activities under a common conceptual framework.
Seed funding from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and a wide variety of projects and partnerships running across Africa.

Why do we exist?
OER Africa believes that OER can positively support development and capacity of higher education systems and institutions across Africa.
OER Africa is concerned that – if the concept and practice of OER evolves predominantly outside and for Africa – we will not be able to liberate its potential.

OER Africa Domain Areas
Health
Agriculture
Foundation Courses
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WHY?
Vibrant, sustainable African higher education institutions that play a critical role in building and sustaining African societies and economies, by producing the continent’s future intellectual leaders through free and open development and sharing of common intellectual capital.
A Vision for Higher Education in Africa:

U-M INTRODUCTION

2007
Dean Woolliscroft commits the U-M 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

2008
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman leads delegation to Ghana and South Africa (February and March)
Hewlett Foundation awards planning grant with additional support from Soros and FAIMER (March)
Health OER workshop in Ghana (May)
dScribe development and materials piloting at U-M
Grant writing trip in Africa (July)
Institute of Medicine meeting (September)
Hewlett awards “Design Phase” grant (Nov)

INTRODUCING TUFTS & TUSK

Tufts OER in Health-Africa
Curriculum Co-Development
TUSK E-Learning System
Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
USAID RESPOND
Open Source Efforts

Curriculum Co-Development
Partners include:
University of Ghana
East Africa Curriculum Co-Development Consortium (EACC):
Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya Methodist University, Kenya
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania

INTRODUCING http://www.oerafrica.org/Default.aspx?alias=www.oerafrica.org/healthproject 2009 “ Health OER Design Phase”

Health OER 1
Partnership between KNUST, UG, UCW, UCT, UM & OER Africa
Objective was to bridge identified gaps
Materials produced to date range from videos to PDFs (boils and knives)
Results of collaboration include cross - institutional transfer of knowledge, skills and expertise
Growing the network as a next step

Growing the Health OER Network
Objectives:
strengthen the intellectual and policy infrastructure within and between African institutions in order to grow a vibrant Health OER network.
systematically draw in more African and global participants to create, adapt, share and use OER to the benefit of health education in Africa.
develop models of collaboration and sustainability that can be replicated in other regions of the world.

Requirements for OER Success?
Institutional integration – not a sideline activity!
HOW?
POLICY - IP, HR (remuneration, reward)
Needs targeted Creation, Adaptation and Use – improving pedagogy through proof of concept pilots
Support to existing networks – not duplicating / dissipating efforts

Integrating OER
Initial OER Sensitization & Exploration
Policy Reviews towards a supportive institutional environment; (IP, HR – reward & remuneration)
Materials Audits
Proof of Concept Pilots in support of the reinvention of African higher education program curricula
Regular & ongoing communication / relationship-building
Aggregation & dissemination through OER online platform – www.oerafrica.org

OER CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

Institutional Workshops University of Ghana

Production Workshop Agenda
Tailored to needs of individuals institutions
E.g., 1.5 days at University of Ghana
OER overview
OER lifecycle
Copyright analysis
Packaging and distribution formats
Open repositories (for inputs and storing works)
Action plan

Aims
Focus on need-driven priorities within local curriculum
Share learning materials globally, leading to local adaptation and enhancement and re-publishing (a virtuous circle)

Tools and Templates
Goal is to keep technology simple
HTML-based templates for case studies (for online and print distribution)
Video with inexpensive handheld cameras
Lecture capture with Camtasia

Intra-institutional Collaboration
Connecting with local resources
KNUST Department of Communication Design
National service participants

Dr. Engleberg’s Sabbatical in Ghana

RESULTS

What Is TUSK?
Enterprise system for institutions and regions
Designed for health sciences
Moving to open source and non-health areas
Accessible from mobile devices

Partnerships

Tufts, Boston Tufts University ‘ hub and spoke ’ model

CMC, Vellore — hub Christian Medical College, Vellore, India ‘ hub and spoke ’ model CMC, Vellore, India Network of 200+ mission hospitals

South-South Collaboration and Co-Development

and USAID RESPOND

Moving Forward Open Source Consortium and University of Indiana: Open MRS and

The OER Africa Website

Networking
Join the network
Sign the Declaration
Share content
Develop an OER Marketplace
Join discussions
Build relationships

Q & A
Are the network design and services generalizable to other disciplines?
If so, how should we work together to build and scale the services across communities?
What’s missing from the network?

Thank you Catherine Ngugi Neil Butcher [email_address] [email_address] Ted Hanss Mary Lee [email_address] [email_address]

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