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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