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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 2012Copyright 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 pretty similar but sometimes 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.

-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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Gather Existing MaterialsAssist 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)

Facilitate Discussion

Foster dialogue between health

professionals around pedagogy, policy,

peer review, and openness via onsite consultation,

discussion lists, conference calls, and newsletters

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.

#9Image 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 HanssChief Information OfficerUniversity of Michigan Medical School

More information:www.oerafrica.org/healthoeropenmi.ch/healthoernetwork

Acknowledgement:This project is supported by the Hewlett Foundation