PRESENTERS:• Nancy L. Dianis, RN, MS, Westat Vice President and
Associate Director of the Clinical Trials Area• Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, MPP, MSI, Program Manager, Office of
Enabling Technologies, Medical School Information Services. University of Michigan
• Airong Luo, PhD, Medical School, University of Michigan
25 June 2013
Collaboration between Developed and Developing Countries Offers Opportunities to Amplify Global Health Research
Regional Networks to Stimulate Multi-directional Knowledge SharingKathleen Ludewig Omollo
Program Manager, Office of Enabling Technologies
Medical School Information Services. University of Michigan
Slides URL: http://openmi.ch/sts13ahon
Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan.
Context: Health Disparities
3Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.
Context: Increased Demand for Education
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Context: Limited Instructor Capacity and Space
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Context: It is Difficult to Find Relevant Materials
When you look in textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases.
[S]ometimes 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 manifestation that may be difficult to see.
Professor at Partner Institution in Ghana
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African Health Open Educational Resources Network
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Advance health education in Africa by:
• Creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge
• Identifying and addressing curriculum gaps
• Bridging health education communities
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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 Existing Materials
Find existing learning materials that are free,
electronic, and licensed to allow anyone to copy, adapt,
and share
Publicly Distribute MaterialsPromote the
materials worldwide through multiple online and offline
methods
Stimulate Discussion
Foster dialogue between health professionals around pedagogy, policy, and peer
review
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• “using the content, tools and processes shared with us;
• enabling others to use, share and adapt what we create; and
• supporting transparency in our content, tools and processes”
School of Open, Peer to Peer University
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Open Practices
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Free
Public
Under some licenses to use, adapt, redistribute
Open Practices: Attributes of Content that is “Open”
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Regional Network: South - South13
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“African universities struggle to have access to information. If we have information, why do we not also share it as part of a pool of universities to exchange information for the purpose of improved learning.”
Dean at Partner Institution in Ghana
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“Through the Health Open Educational Resources program, we are transforming our health curriculum to provide students with richer learning experiences and strengthening their ability to practice in a global health context.”
James O. Woolliscroft, M.D.
Dean, University of Michigan Medical School
Regional Network: Local + Global Benefits
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Regional Network: Building Capacity 15
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Nuturing individuals and institutions
• Workshops
• On-site collaborative projects
• External training opportunities
For context, innovation, and sustainability, connecting people with peers at other institutions
• Quarterly newsletter
• Interest groups
• Regional events (workshops, conferences, publications)
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Regional Network: Partners in 2008
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Regional Network: Current Partners
Evaluation: Assessing the Program Model18
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Independent evaluation
• Annual qualitative interviews and report of impact of the project within each of the four African partner universities
Evaluations by Central Coordination Team
• Cross-Institutional Collaboration Study - communication between the six organizations, and the policies, processes, and technologies that influenced those interactions
• Institutional Case Studies
• Periodic Monitoring of Web Analytics
Evalution: Highlights
2009 report:
• “Expectations and contractual targets had been met or exceeded by an impressive margin, with project coordinators and participants in each institution having engaged OER in creative ways that were most appropriate to their own contexts”
2012 report:
• “OER developed through collaborative networks can lead to more productive teaching and learning”
• “Enhanced quality is evidenced in the accounts of academics and students as well as in new quality assurance peer-review mechanisms”
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Email: [email protected]
Slides URL: http://openmi.ch/sts13ahon
Newsletter: http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-newsletter
Websites: http://oerafrica.org/healthoer,http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork
Presentation by Kathleen Ludewig Omollo. Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan. Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
Closing: References and Contact20
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