Brainstorming session with U-M staff and students about how to engage students in the African Health OER Network

1. Health OER Network Design Jam
Presenter:
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
U-M Project Manager, African Health OER Network
MSI/MPP Graduate May 2010
Presented to:
University of Michigan
November 4, 2010
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2. Agenda
11:30 Food
11:40 Welcome and overview of session
11:45 Intro to the African Health OER Network
12:05 Individual brainstorming
12:10 Brainstorming in small groups (3 – 5 people)
12:25 Share ideas with group, get feedback
12:35 Return to groups, refine ideas
12:50 Share ideas with group, get feedback
1:00 End

3. Challenges
 Educational materials are expensive
 Health care disparities
 Healthcare worker shortage, especially in
developing countries
 Crowded classrooms and ward rounds

4. Solution

5. Learning materials that are freely available and
licenses for use, redistribution, and adaptation.
OER

6. A Huge Array Of OERs Exist Today
Across Different Populations Of Learners
K-12 Higher Education Life-Long Learning
Courses
Lesson plans
Teacher training
Video lectures
Courseware
Podcasts
Journals
Books
Images
Applications
Games
Adapted from Presentation CC BY William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Presentation at University of Michigan, Oct. 23,

7. Examples of OER
[1 minute clip of Buruli Ulcer OER module]

8. Motivations for OER
[2 -4 minute clips from UG and KNUST OER
documentaries]

9. The African Health OER Network
Our goal is to advance health care education in
Africa by using open educational resources
(OER) to share knowledge, address curriculum
gaps, and build communities of practice around
health education.
We have been working primarily with institutions in
Ghana and South Africa but we continue to draw
in more African institutions. We aim to develop
models of collaboration and sustainability that can
be replicated in other regions of the world.

10. Who’s involved
 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
 University of Michigan
 OER Africa
 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
 University of Ghana
 University of Cape Town
 University of the Western Cape
 University of Malawi
 University of Botswana
 Health Education and Training in Africa Project of the Open
University
 University of Nairobi
 Makarere University
 U.S. National Institute of Health
 American Association of Medical Colleges
 Global Health Informatics Partnership

11. Network Activities
 Training and workshops
 Mentoring and consulting
 Reference services for finding OER on a given
health topic
 Reviewing content for copyright, privacy, and
endorsement considerations
 Content production and distribution
Content evaluation and assessment.

12. Help us build the Network
Lumaxart (flickr)

13. March 2010 Design Jam Topic
Can we build a shared social network platform
that addresses global health education needs
and increases the sharing of health education
resources?

14. March 2010 Design Jam Takeaways
Advocacy
 academic incentive through awards (e.g. best
learning resource for X)
 students as drivers of the network
Organizational Structure
standardized metadata
 dynamic site content to encourage people to
keep coming back
Technical Platform
 explore LAN access through caching and
tracking local users who downloaded materials

15. Today’s Design Challenge
How can we engage students around the world
as content producers and advocates for health
open educational resources?

16. Design Constraints
 This network will have technical (e.g. website) and social (e.g.
community health OER creators and users) dimensions
 Student involvement - at U-M and other institutions - will most
often be on a volunteer basis and may occasionally be through
paid, part-time work.
 Bandwidth varies greatly between countries. Any platform must
be accessible (e.g. navigation, file size) from members within
Africa as well as observers outside the continent.
 Since travel is time-consuming and costly, it is difficult for
members to gather for in-person meetings.

17. Seeds for Discussion
 Generating demand for OER
 Organizing OER (e.g. keywords)
 Reviewing OER
 Facilitate community around OER
 Others?

18. Outcomes of Session
Notes, drawings, pictures generated from the
session will posted on the Open.Michigan wiki at
http://open.umich.edu/wiki. All participants will
receive attribution for their contributions and
agree to share the materials under a Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

19. Questions?
open.michigan@umich.edu
https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Health_OER_Collaborations