This is the draft program for the Health OER Tech Africa 2012 workshop, held October 3 - 5, 2012 in Accra.

1. Health Open Educational Resources (OER) Technology
Africa Regional Workshop
October 3 - 5, 2012
Accra, Ghana
Coordinator:
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, University of Michigan
Overview
The Health Open Educational Resources (OER) Technology Africa Regional Workshop will
bring together 20-25 technologists, multimedia specialists, and instructional designers from 8-12
health science institutions across Africa. The event is being coordinated through the African
Health OER Network (http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer).
Established in 2008, the mission of the African Health OER Network is to advance health
education in Africa by creating and promoting free, publicly available, and openly licensed
teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and
support health education communities. Founding members of the African Health OER Network
include the University of Michigan, the South African Institute for Distance Education, Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Ghana, University of Cape Town,
and University of the Western Cape. We continue to draw in more African participants with the
goal of building a continent-wide network.
The objective of this 3-day “train the trainer” workshop is to build institutional capacity in policy,
instructional design, multimedia, and other technology expertise necessary to support the
development and distribution of media-rich OER for health. Target participants include
individuals who currently support or are planning to support production, distribution, discovery,
and adaptation of OER, such as: multimedia support specialists, technology specialists,
software developers, system administrators, instructional designers, and librarians.
The workshop will be loosely structured and highly participatory, with staff members from the
various institutions alternating as presenters and facilitators of the large and small group
sessions. The workshop will enable hands-on experimentation with software and audiovisual
equipment, facilitate dialogue around policy issues, and strengthen the community of health
OER professionals located across sub-Saharan Africa. Individuals should bring a laptop that
they can use for the hands-on exercises.
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2. The end product of this workshop will be a collection of Creative Commons-licensed1
instructional guides and recordings of the workshop presentations that can be used and
adapted for further training and a plan for the next set of collaborative activities among OER
support staff at the member institutions of the African Health OER Network
(http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer).
Background
The African Health OER Network (“the Network”) aims to advance health education in Africa by
creating and promoting free, publicly available, and openly licensed teaching materials created
by Africans to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and support health education
communities. Founding members of the Network in 2008 include the University of Michigan,2 the
South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide),3 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology,4 University of Ghana, University of Cape Town,5 and University of the Western
Cape.6 The Network continues to draw in more African participants with the goal of expanding
participation across the Continent.
This workshop is one of several multi-institutional workshops convened through the Network
since 2008. To date, there have been three workshops that brought together senior leadership
and educators from the partner institutions (Accra in 2008, Cape Town in 2009,7 and Nairobi in
20118). In October 2011, the Network convened the first cross-institutional workshop for OER
technical support staff, which included 13 multimedia and technologists from 3 Ghanaian
institutions.9
Workshop Objectives
● To provide an opportunity for show-and-tell presentations by institutions on OER
produced and methods used;
● To present a walk-through, start-to-finish, of the OER production process;
● To discuss instructional design and interactive design principles for educational content;
● To demonstrate how to search for and locate OER and other Creative Commons or
public content that may be adapted for content development;
● To teach participants how to record sound and video;
● To provide participants with the basic skills to edit HTML, sound, and video;
● To instruct participants on open source and proprietary content authoring tools;
● To provide a basic overview of important OER policy areas, including copyright, privacy,
and endorsement;
● To teach participants how to identify, classify and clear third-party content contained
within educational materials;
● To explore software platforms for hosting OER, including metadata standards and export
functionality;
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http://open.umich.edu/share/license
2
http://open.umich.edu
3
http://www.oerafrica.org
4
http://web.knust.edu.gh/oer/
5
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
6
http://freecourseware.uwc.ac.za/
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http://www.oerafrica.org/default.aspx?alias=www.oerafrica.org/healthproject
8
http://www.oerafrica.org/OEREvents/OERAfricaConvening/tabid/1853/Default.aspx
9
http://www.slideshare.net/tag/oerghana
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3. ● To discuss distribution methods (e.g. online, offline, mobile) for sharing OER on campus
and worldwide; and
● To examine analytics and other systematic methods to track usage of OER.
Approach
The workshop will be highly participatory, with individuals from each institution training each
other and alternating as presenters, facilitators of the technical sessions, and moderators for the
large and small group discussions.
The workshop will adopt many principles of the Unconference model.10 The agenda below is
only a guide. Participants will revisit the agenda during the conference and adapt as workshop
progresses. The agenda will be participant-driven, with feedback collected mid-day and at the
end of each day in order to respond to participants’ requests and comments on presentations,
hands-on experimentation.
Agenda (to be discussed and updated as necessary during the workshop)
Day 1 - Wednesday, October 3
● Welcome
● Introductions
● Demo: Show and Tell Part 1
○ 10-12 minutes per institution: At participant’s institution, what types of open
activities are there (OER? Open Access?) Who is involved? What has been
created? How? Future Plans?
● Overview of Phases of OER Production (creating new materials) and Phases of Open
OER Use and Adaptation (building on existing materials)
○ Creation: 1. Recruit authors; 2. Identify Content; 3. Design Content; 4. Develop
Content; 5. Edit Content; 6. Package Content; 7. Quality Review; 8. Publish; 9.
Distribute; 10. Evaluate and Monitor Use
○ Use and Adaptation: 1. Recruit subject experts to determine content priorities; 2.
Identify and prioritize learning objectives for intended modules; 3. Looking for
existing OER that can be adapted; 4. Reviewing existing OER (is it relevant? Is it
accurate? What changes need to be made to fit local context?); 5. Make any
necessary adaptations to content; 6. If adaptation, do quality review; 7. If
adaptation, publish; 8. Distribute to students and instructors; 9. Evaluate and
Monitor Use
● Discuss: Tactics to Recruit Authors and to Identify Content
● Presentation: Instructional Design Principles
● Demo: Audio and Video Recording
● Hands-On: Audio and Video Recording
● Hands-On: Audio and Video Editing
● Fill out evals for Day 1, make suggestions for days 2 & 3
● Group Dinner at Notovel
Day 2 - Thursday, October 4
● Summary of feedback from day 1 evals; Plan for day 2
● Show and Tell Part 2
● Discuss: Informed Consent for Students and Patients
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
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4. ● Presentation: Edit Content: Addressing legal issues before releasing publicly
● Hands-On: dScribe Process
● Demo: Content Management Systems
● Demo: Google Analytics, Dashboards
● Hands-On: Export usage data from Google Analytics, Content Management Systems
● Fill out evals for Day 2, make suggestions for day 3
● Group Dinner - Venue to be Determined
Day 3 - Friday, October 5
● Summary of feedback from day 2 evals; Plan for day 3
● Hands-On: Analysis of Open Data (metrics from African Health OER Network content)
● Presentation and Discussion: Beyond Open Content: Integrating Open Practices into
Campus Culture
● Closing Remarks and Feedback
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