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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
License. To view a copy of this license, visit <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>.
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Challenges
• Low budgets, small workforce, high disease burden
• Scarce, aging, and emigrating teaching staff
• Insufficient classroom spaces
Image CC:BY-‐NC University of Ghana
Crowded clinical settings
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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 Medicine, KNUST (Ghana) Image CC:BY-‐NC-‐SA Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology
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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 curriculum gaps, and support health education communities.
www.oerafrica.org/healthoer
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Adapt and Create New Materials
Provide tools and guides for educators and students to
design, license, and share learning
materials
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)
Publicly Distribute Materials
Promote the materials worldwide through mulLple online and offline methods
Facilitate Discussion
Foster dialogue between health
professionals around pedagogy, policy,
peer review, and openness via onsite consultaLon,
discussion lists, conference calls, and newsleOers
Approach
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Accomplishments
• 160 individuals trained • Student publishing assistants • 12 institutions have contributed
– 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
OER Africa Convening, 2011. Photo CC BY Saide.
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Visualization of greatest word frequency in YouTube comments –
from wordle.net.
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OER Examples
Midwifery students in Malawi at Kamuzu
College of Nursing show
off OER course
materials on CD-ROM
Photo CC BY Saide.
#9 Image CC:BY-‐NC-‐SA Saide and University of Botswana
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PCR Animation, CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie
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CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem
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CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem
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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 – Sustainability
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Questions/Discussion
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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
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