A medical student created an open online anatomy textbook called TeachMeAnatomy in his spare time using a crowd-sourced and peer-reviewed model. Over time, the site grew significantly in popularity and views. It became financially sustainable through advertisements. The student was able to ensure quality by starting with content from friends and moving to an open crowd-sourcing model with comments and ratings. The site had a major impact with views increasing over 30 times from 2013 to 2016. It provides a profitable and reproducible model for other open educational initiatives.
Temporary link for paper published in MERLOT Journal of Online Learning & Teaching at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4616169/Irvine-Code-Richards-2013.pdf
Presenation here provides an overview of Multi-Access Learning for the Blend Sync research team in Australia on July 24, 2013.
Open Educational Resources: Policy, Technology and PracticesCEMCA
2012/10/10: Open Educational Resources: Policy, Technology and Practices, Presentation by Sanjaya Mishra at the Training programme for the Faculty of Bangladesh Open University organized by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), NOIDA.
Also presented at the Technical Workshop on Virtual Open Schooling on 11/02/2013.
From Theory to Practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research? Beck Pitt
"From Theory to Practice..." was presented by Beck Pitt at OER15, Cardiff, Wales during April 2015.
This presentation was developed from the slide deck presented at CALRG 2014 at The Open University (UK) during Summer 2014 and the slide deck presented at OpenEd 2014 in Washington DC during November 2014.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Connecting the dots: Students & ResourcesRichardBecker29
This is a presentation on what OER is, what some of the benefits are of using OER, what are some of the challenges of implementing OER, and finally, what is the outcome of moving to OER.
This is a Guest Lecture delivered to PhD Scholars at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan on 7th October 2015. The presentation explores the current global trends in Open Educational Resources (OER). The specific topics covered include a brief introduction to OER; defining the “O” in OER; how licensing works with the new Creative Commons 4.0 International licensing scheme; defining the usefulness of an OER for a particular teaching and learning purpose through the “Desirability” framework; and identifying the objectives of large scale OER projects through the “Focus Triangle”.
This presentation was delivered as part of the Scotland’s Colleges/College Development Network Dangerous Ideas event. The focus is open education and sharing of open educational content. The presentation was delivered by webinar in June 2012.
I have worked on a number of B2B marketing projects to promote the council's business parks to potential tenants to increase lettings. This includes working with surveyors and estate agents to produce marketing literature, web content and advertising copy. The attached brochure is an example of a brochure I produced for a new development at Lancashire Business Park. I have also commissioned photography and video virtual tours onsite and worked with existing business tenants to get case studies.
Temporary link for paper published in MERLOT Journal of Online Learning & Teaching at: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4616169/Irvine-Code-Richards-2013.pdf
Presenation here provides an overview of Multi-Access Learning for the Blend Sync research team in Australia on July 24, 2013.
Open Educational Resources: Policy, Technology and PracticesCEMCA
2012/10/10: Open Educational Resources: Policy, Technology and Practices, Presentation by Sanjaya Mishra at the Training programme for the Faculty of Bangladesh Open University organized by the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), NOIDA.
Also presented at the Technical Workshop on Virtual Open Schooling on 11/02/2013.
From Theory to Practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research? Beck Pitt
"From Theory to Practice..." was presented by Beck Pitt at OER15, Cardiff, Wales during April 2015.
This presentation was developed from the slide deck presented at CALRG 2014 at The Open University (UK) during Summer 2014 and the slide deck presented at OpenEd 2014 in Washington DC during November 2014.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Connecting the dots: Students & ResourcesRichardBecker29
This is a presentation on what OER is, what some of the benefits are of using OER, what are some of the challenges of implementing OER, and finally, what is the outcome of moving to OER.
This is a Guest Lecture delivered to PhD Scholars at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan on 7th October 2015. The presentation explores the current global trends in Open Educational Resources (OER). The specific topics covered include a brief introduction to OER; defining the “O” in OER; how licensing works with the new Creative Commons 4.0 International licensing scheme; defining the usefulness of an OER for a particular teaching and learning purpose through the “Desirability” framework; and identifying the objectives of large scale OER projects through the “Focus Triangle”.
This presentation was delivered as part of the Scotland’s Colleges/College Development Network Dangerous Ideas event. The focus is open education and sharing of open educational content. The presentation was delivered by webinar in June 2012.
I have worked on a number of B2B marketing projects to promote the council's business parks to potential tenants to increase lettings. This includes working with surveyors and estate agents to produce marketing literature, web content and advertising copy. The attached brochure is an example of a brochure I produced for a new development at Lancashire Business Park. I have also commissioned photography and video virtual tours onsite and worked with existing business tenants to get case studies.
Has the Global Economy become a Bloc-o-holic?tutor2u
In the post war period, the world economy has increasingly separated itself into trading blocs. Trading blocs have grown in size and some have become more economically integrated...
Let's get digital
What happens when forty researchers, patients, entrepreneurs and health and social care staff come together to discuss digital technologies and their impact on NHS sustainability and transformation?
That was the experiment at the University of Southampton' s Web Sciences Institute on 16 January, at a workshop sponsored by the Institute, the CLAHRC and Wessex AHSN.
And the result?
A highly energetic and constructive exchange of views from the diverse stakeholders in the room.
The take away messages:
1. The NHS has to embrace digital technologies to survive but precisely how it embraces these is critical;
2. successful adoption of digital technologies needs to take account of:
• the political imperative of developing a compact between public services, service providers and citizens about how their data may be used;
• the social processes involved in patient and workforce adaption to technologies and the substantial research base that already exists in this field *the technical challenges involved in ensuring that a proliferation of health data and digital devices develops in a way that supports integrated, patient-centred care rather than promoting fragmented data and digital silos;
• developing the capacity to adapt to and exploit fundamentally disruptive innovation from within the NHS and from SMEs many of which have their origins in academic research or front-line clinical practice
Next steps?
How might we maintain and develop the coalition of interests that met in the workshop to underpin a research-driven, innovation-friendly digital technologies implementation plan for the NHS in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Watch this space.
OERScout Technology Framework: A Novel Approach to Open Educational Resources...Ishan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
This technical seminar explains how OERScout uses text mining techniques to autonomously mine domain specific metadata for search purposes, how it utilises a faceted search approach to zero-in on resources and how it incorporates the desirability framework to recommend useful resources for academic purposes. The seminar also gives a technical overview of OER and explores the current OER search dilemma.
This guest lecture focuses on providing a quick introduction on OER to PhD students in the education stream at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU). The topics covered are (i) What are OER?; (ii) What are useful OER?; (iii) OER Search; (iv) Useful OER sources; and (v) OER vs. MOOC.
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2018-04-24 Presentation at OE Global 2018 in Delft on "How to make MOOCs better for specific target groups and developing countries?" by Christian M. Stracke, OUNL, Carlos Delgado Kloos (UC3M) et al.
Promising aspects of online education in Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCsROER4D
Promising aspects of online education in Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCs? A presentation by Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams for the World Development Report 2016: Internet for Development Regional Consultation Conference, Nairobi, 26-27 January 2015, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town
Open learning in higher education an institutional approachBrian Murphy
The vaue of open learning can be a conflict within higher education instituions. This presentation is the result of an instituional review and research on the open education movement in higher education, given greater impetus by the advent of the MOOC. The journey of exploring MOOCs resulted, ironically, in an enhanced apreciation of OERs and revised strategic thinking of their impact for teaching and research, especially when viewed as a vehicle of co-creation between staff and students. Once value is attached, the principle becimes embedded and accepted rarher than an additional burden of academic endeavour; and the door is opened to the business case for systems, investment and development as well as academic development, support, reward and recognition.
Open educational resources in a global contextCSAPOER
This presentation is related to the C-SAP e-Learning Forum event: sharing materials and practice in the social sciences http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/details/82-C-SAP%20e-Learning%20Forum
Open Educational Resources + Social SoftwareTerry Anderson
Presentation from the CNIE conference at Banff, April 2008. Overviews Open educational Resources and (briefly) the role of social software in expanding use, and produser construction
2018-03-05 Keynote Quality Design Online Courses OpenEd Framework Mooc Survey...Christian M. Stracke
2018-03-05 Keynote at 1st International Media Literacy Conference in Kuala Lumpur on "Quality & Design of Online Courses: The OpenEd Framework & the Global MOOC Quality Survey" by Christian M. Stracke from the OUNL
Star Trek or Minority Report: Assessment and feedback demands, trends, and fu...tbirdcymru
What works for Higher Education assessment, and what do we wish we could have in Higher Education assessment Terese Bird keynote at Assessment on Tour London 2019.
3D Printing for Engaging Post-Digital Learningtbirdcymru
With Thanin Ong, Dr Steve Jacques, Dr Vrushant Lakhlani, Dr Vikas Shah. Leicester Medical School and School of Psychology have been working with 3D Printing for undergraduate learning and share inital findings on feasibility, cost, and benefits.
The 7 Cs of Learning Design - presented at the Fourth International Conference of E-Learning and Distance Learning - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - February - March 2015
Mobile LMS and Pedagogical Uses for Social Mediatbirdcymru
Possibilities for mobile learning systems including Blackboard and iTunesU - presented at the Fourth International Conference of E-Learning and Distance Learning, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Feb-Mar 2015
Googling is core and the textbook is extra: information-seeking behaviour and...tbirdcymru
How do students who have never known a world without the internet search for and construct knowledge in the digital age? How do they decide what are trusted sources, and what are their learning and digital literacy strategies? Terese Bird and Sarah Whittaker researched these and other questions in this project conducted among Leicester Medical School students in 2016-2017.
An Evaluation of Medical Students' Responses to Structured Exam Feedback from...tbirdcymru
Presentation given at the Association for the Study of Medical Education Scientific Meeting in July 2016 in Belfast. This presentation summarises findings from my masters dissertation done for MA in International Education at University of Leicester.
Sina Weibo and other social media for academic networkingtbirdcymru
I shared this presentation at a seminar for scholars from Nantong University, which took place at University of Leicester 20 August 2015. It was a great opportunity to consider using tools which are often associated only with trivial and personal use, for use in educational networking and professional profiling.
Presentation shared with Colleges-University of Leicester Network Conference 16 June 2015. A look at Bring Your Own Device initiatives in comparison with institutionally-purchased-device initiatives, for mobile learning.
Building and maintaining your digital research profiletbirdcymru
Workshop shared with colleagues at School of Education Summer School, 27 June 2015. A digital research profile is what a researcher wants to share about herself and her work online, including some work which may be created online, and research which may be conducted online.
At the intersection of open practice and institutional collaboration: eMundus...tbirdcymru
This presentation was shared at the OER15 Conference in Cardiff. It showcases the work of eMundus Project, an EU-funded project promoting open practice and institutional collaboration.
Building a Digital Platform - iPads in Undergraduate Medicinetbirdcymru
This presentation was given at the Apple Medical Leadership Event in February 2015 in Edinburgh, UK, on behalf of the University of Leicester Department of Social Care and Medical Education
Credit and Collaboration in MOOCs: Where are we now?tbirdcymru
This presentation was presented in a webinar for Open Education Week 10 March 2015, on behalf of the work of eMundus EU Project, which promotes and researches collaborative work in open educational practice.
The challenges and possibilities of using social media for educational purposestbirdcymru
This workshop was presented by Alison Fox and Terese Bird of University of Leicester, at the Inspiring Leaders conference, at the National Teaching College Training Center, Nottingham, UK, 16 October 2014.
Lecture Capture at University of Leicester: Pilot, Evaluation, Next Stepstbirdcymru
A look at the pilot project of Lecture Capture at University of Leicester in 2013/14, including evaluation.... and a look at the university's next steps in lecture capture for 2014/15.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
TeachMeAnatomy: How a medical student built a sustainable, crowd-sourced, peer-reviewed, open online textbook in his spare time
1. TeachMeAnatomy:
How a medical student built a sustainable, crowd-
sourced, peer-reviewed, open online textbook in his
spare time
Terese Bird and Ollie Jones
Leicester Medical School
OER16 Conference, Edinburgh, 19 April 2016
2. A model of a successful openish-to-open initiative
3.
4.
5. History of Open and Openish Educational Initiatives
(ICDE, 2010) (Pearce, 2012) (Weller, 2015)
2001 MIT Open
Courseware,
Creative
Commons
2002 “OER”
term used
UNESCO Forum
2006
OpenLearn
(Hewlett
Foundation)
2008 Capetown
Declaration
2010 Jorum
2012 Coursera,
FutureLearn
2005
Youtube
2006
Khan
Academy
2007
iTunes U
2008
App Store
2004
Flickr
2001
Wikipedia
6. Why and how
Arose from a clear user need
• Responsive design
• Undergraduate level
• Free
9. How to ensure and improve quality
• How to make sure the written articles are correct before there is a
crowd to crowdsource:
• Start with friends, move to the crowd
• Allow comments
• Leicester Medical School stance
• Spinoff sites are being vetted by
by senior clinical practitioners
Image courtesy of Adrienne Yancey on Flickr
18. Conclusions and considerations
• Satisfies a clear need
• Community to Crowd-source
• Content
• Quality
• Ratings and comments
• Commercial
• Openish to open
A profitable & reproducible model for open initiatives
Image by Msannakoval on
Wikimedia
19. References
• ICDE (2010) ‘Open Educational Practices » Open Educational Quality
Initiative - OPAL’, ICDE Website, [online] Available from:
http://www.icde.org/en/resources/open_educational_practices/Ope
n+Educational+Quality+Initiative+-+OPAL.9UFRzW5W.ips (Accessed 5
November 2015).
• Pearce, N. (2012) Developing students as OER content scavengers,
[online] Available from: http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/developing-
students-oer-content-scavengers.
• Weller, M. (2015) Webinar on impact of Open Education - Findings
from the OER Research Hub, Online United Kingdom.
20. Questions? Get in touch!
• Terese Bird t.bird@le.ac.uk
• Ollie Jones oj12@student.le.ac.uk
teachmeanatomy.info
Editor's Notes
The need for TeachMeAnatomy became apparent to me when I was in my first year of medicine. I, like many other students, mostly use the internet for my revision. I was looking for a text-based anatomy resource at a level suitable for medical students – but couldn’t find one. So – the answer was to make one myself! The aims were fairly basic – an electronic resource, with the content at undergraduate level, which was free to use.
From the outset, it was not meant to be a commercial venture, nor was it really intended to be a resource for those outside the medical school.
Also should note that I had no concept of open access, creative commons licensing, or copyright before this point. I only learnt about them as I encountered them.
How?
Putting stuff on WordPress
Adapting old grays images
Got friends to help write and vet content, recruited via facebook
The site has been running since February 2012. This graph displays daily page views from March 2013 (when we started to collect visitor statistics) to March 2016.
Consistent growth year on year, with dips over the academic holidays.
Total number of views since the site has been running is just over 15 million. Overall has been used for 390,000 hours.
We conducted a demographic survey last year to identify what sorts of individuals use TeachMeAnatomy.
Surprised to note that medical students - who the site was designed for – only make up 27% of the user base.
A map of where site users come from (data from March 1st 2013 – March 1st 2016).
Countries with many visitors are displayed in dark blue – the top five countries are USA (33%), UK (17%), Australia (8%), India (6%) and Canada (4%).
Countries with no visitors are white – such as Western Sahara.
Light blue countries are somewhere in between.
This map shows that site users can be found in almost every country in the world.
Initially looked at whether could use images under fair use law. Wasn’t sure.
Then looked at whether I could use images under a non-commercial CC license – again wasn’t sure.
For someone very new to copyright rules, very confusing to work out what you can and cannot use.
There are three different types of material on TeachMeAnatomy:
Original content – content that we have produced ourselves. It includes all of the written material and some of the images, which we hand-drawn.
Public domain – content that we have adapted from material on the public domain. This mainly applies to illustrations
Non commercial creative commons license.
There are no medical illustrators/graphic designers on the website, so we could not use images under public domain/CC, then we wouldn’t have any.
When talking about open use, must acknowledge wordpress, which is a fantastic open source platform for content heavy websites
Whilst all the original material on the site in licensed under a creative commons license, if a teacher wants to use the content under different terms, we usually grant permission. Have had over 100 image use requests, and have only declined permission once.
University of Buckingham – used images from the site in lectures and coursework.
NAACCR – used images in powerpoint presentations for webinars
Oxford university – used images to create their own private resource on their VLE
Ossur UK – a company that produces prostheses, used images to help train non-medical staff.
To ensure sustainability, one of the key aspects was to ensure engagement of our users.
Last year, I added a rating and comment box to every page on the site. This allows the user to provide both quantitative and qualitative feedback on the material. This increased the volume of feedback we received dramatically. We make changes to the site based on the feedback in about 60% of cases. This means that the resource becomes more accurate and more tailored to the user base as time goes on.
I don’t think it would be possible to make the project sustainable in this way if it was not for the open-access and ‘community’ spirit of the resource.
Revenue is generated via non-intrusive advertising. This allows all the content to be open access, whilst still have funds to further develop the website. Not restrictive – you don’t need to pay to access any extra content.
To date, we’ve used these funds to develop mobile applications, build new websites, and even sponsor the medics sports teams at Leicester.
Generated £40,000 last tax year.
