Presentation by Ted Hanss given at the UNESCO OER World Congress in Paris on June 22, 2012. PPT available for download at http://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2012_06_22_ted_hanss_unesco_oer_congress_v2.ppt. Presentation CC BY Regents of the University of Michigan.

1. 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
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2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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communities.

5. 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
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6. 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
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7. Visualization of greatest word
frequency in YouTube comments –
from wordle.net.
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8. OER Examples
Midwifery
students in
Malawi at
Kamuzu
College of
Nursing show
off OER
course
materials on
CD-ROM
Photo CC BY Saide.
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9. Image
CC:BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
Saide
and
University
of
Botswana
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10. #10

11. PCR Animation,
CC BY-NC Cary
Engleberg, Yaw
Adu-Sarkodie
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12. CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem
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13. CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem
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14. 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
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– Sustainability

15. Questions/Discussion
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16. 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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