African Health OER Network - OER World Congress

Health Open Educational Resources: Local Capacity Building and Global Sharing African Health OER Network Case Study Ted Hanss University of Michigan UNESCO World OER Congress 22 June 2012 Copyright 2012 The University of Michigan. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0#1 License. To view a copy of this license, visit <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>.

Challenges •  Low budgets, small workforce, high disease burden •  Scarce, aging, and emigrating teaching Image CC:BY-‐NC University of Ghana staff Crowded clinical •  Insufficient settings classroom spaces#2

When you look in textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases. The cases may be pre=y similar but some>mes it can be confusing when you see something that you see on white skin so nicely and very easy to pick up, but on the dark skin it has a different manifesta>on that may be difficult to see. -‐Richard Phillips, lecturer, Department of Internal Image CC:BY-‐NC-‐SA Kwame Nkrumah Medicine, KNUST (Ghana) University of Science and Technology #3

The mission of the African Health Open Educational Resources (OER) Network is to advance health education in Africa by creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge, address www.oerafrica.org/healthoer curriculum gaps, and support health education#4 communities.

Gather Exis5ng Materials Assist health professionals in ﬁnding materials that are free, electronic, and openly licensed (i.e. expressly allow the general public to use, adapt, copy, and redistribute) Approach Facilitate Discussion Foster dialogue Adapt and Create between health Publicly Distribute New Materials professionals around Materials Provide tools and pedagogy, policy, Promote the materials guides for educators peer review, and openness worldwide through and students to via onsite consultaLon, mulLple online and design, license, and discussion lists, conference oﬄine methods share learning calls, and newsleOers materials #5

Accomplishments •  160 individuals trained •  Student publishing assistants •  12 institutions have contributed OER Africa Convening, 2011. Photo CC BY Saide. –  135 learning modules, including 339 separate materials –  144 videos •  Over 1 million YouTube views •  Access from over 190 countries •  Policy workshops and subsequent implementation of OER-enabling policies#6

Visualization of greatest wordfrequency in YouTube comments – from wordle.net.#7

OER Examples Midwifery students in Malawi at Kamuzu College of Nursing show off OER course materials on CD-ROM Photo CC BY Saide.#8

Image CC:BY-‐NC-‐SA Saide and University of Botswana #9

PCR Animation,CC BY-NC CaryEngleberg, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie#11

CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem#12

CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem#13

Challenges and Lessons Learned •  Intellectual property and faculty reward •  Technology standards and interoperability •  Building partnerships and sustainability •  Best Practices: –  Institutional level planning –  Building collaborations with other institutions –  Planning the big picture –  Deployment –  Assessment#14 –  Sustainability

Questions/Discussion#15

Ted Hanss Chief Information Officer University of Michigan Medical School More information: www.oerafrica.org/healthoer openmi.ch/healthoernetwork Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Hewlett Foundation#16

African Health OER Network - OER World Congress

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