In November 2011, I was invited to give a presentation about OER at U-M, KNUST, and the larger African Health OER Network to 70-80 third- and final year Department of Communication Design (DeCoDe) Students in the College of Arts at KNUST.
This 75 minute presentation-discussion focused on: What are OER?
Origins of African Health OER Network; Activities of African Health OER Network; Origins of OER at University of Michigan; OER activities within University of Michigan; Other Student-Led OER activities around the world; Collective Brainstorming for OER at DeCoDe; and Concluding Remarks.
3. What are OER? Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that have been openly licensed and are available for use and reuse in local contexts. Open means both free and licensed.
4. What is OER? CC BY U-M. Full poster at http://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/howto-create-share-connect-poster.pdf
8. Why OER? 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 a 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. Sometimes it is difficult for the students to appreciate when they see a clinical case that involves an African. I think that [locally developed] OER will go a long way in helping the students appreciate the cases that we see in our part of the world. -Richard Phillips, lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, KNUST Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
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10. Participant Map - Individuals 85 Individuals Signed Declaration of Support http://batchgeo.com/map/d70937ef6be461a3571274817b590a52
11. Participant Map - Organizations http://batchgeo.com/map/a70a5bf6278d936e23737b968fc5317c 19 Organizations Signed Declaration of Support • OER Africa • University of Michigan • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology • University of Ghana • University of Cape Town • University of the Western Cape • University of Malawi • Makerere University • EBW Healthcare • Global Health Informatics Partnership • MedEdPORTAL
14. Activities: Mentoring/Consulting Photo by: Re-ality ( Flickr ) Photo by: Sara Grajeda ( Flickr ) Students in line for computer lab at University of Ghana Photo by: The Regents of the University of Michigan ( flickr ) Dkscully ( flickr )
15. Activities: Platforms & Distrib. Power outages are common. Bandwidth is very expensive. OER is distributed offline and online by authoring institutions and the two Network co-facilitators, OER Africa and U-M. Learn more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMiObNC3KYI (12 minutes)
16. Activities: Platforms & Distrib. University of Malawi Kamuzu College of Nursing. Photo by: Saide.
26. True or False: In order for an object to qualify for copyright protection, it must be marked with a (C) symbol False. See: The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 (BCIA).
27. True or false: A work must be published and registered in order to be granted copyright protection. False.
43. what types of third-party (i.e. created by someone other than the author) objects might there be have in the content?
44. what should the author or dScribe do with those third-party objects?
45. possible actions :: retain : keep the content because it is licensed under an Open license or is in the public domain :: replace : you may want to replace content that is not Openly licensed (and thus not shareable) :: remove : you may need to remove content due to privacy, endorsement or copyright concerns
63. Many slides in this presentation were produced in collaboration with Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, Greg Grossmeier, Emily Puckett Rodgers, and Susan Topol.
Hinweis der Redaktion
Begin with brief introductions: Kathleen, 2010 graduate of SI and the School of Public Policy. Involved in Winter 2008 pilot of dScribe
The Ghanaian government aims to triple the number of healthcare workers, but according to a study by Dr. Frank Anderson from University of Michigan, the Ghanaian medical schools can only admit 30% of qualified applicants due to limited faculty size.
The Ghanaian government aims to triple the number of healthcare workers, but according to a study by Dr. Frank Anderson from University of Michigan, the Ghanaian medical schools can only admit 30% of qualified applicants due to limited faculty size.
~75 US ~180 Ghana ~130 South Africa ~30 Malawi ~17 Kenya
19 Organizations Signed Declaration of Support • OER Africa • University of Michigan • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology • University of Ghana • University of Cape Town • University of the Western Cape • University of Malawi • Makerere University • EBW Healthcare • Global Health Informatics Partnership • MedEdPORTAL
Workshops on: Why OER How to create OER How to find OER How can we promote OER at home institutions and externally
We provided ongoing mentorship on OER production and policy to participants through user guides, onsite consultation, email, and conference calls OER request facility
The Ghanaian government aims to triple the number of healthcare workers, but according to a study by Dr. Frank Anderson from University of Michigan, the Ghanaian medical schools can only admit 30% of qualified applicants due to limited faculty size.
Welcome to our presentation How to “Find, Use, Remix, and Create Open Learning Materials.”
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or even a textbook Example #1 Chemical Engineering Open wiki Textbook by Peter Woolf This project is a collaboration between the faculty and students of the University of Michigan chemical engineering department. It is a student-contributed open-source text covering the materials used at Michigan in a senior level course. The goal of this project is to provide the greater chemical engineering community with a useful, relevant, high quality, and free resource describing chemical process control and modeling. Initial construction of this resource began in Fall 2006. Example #2 High Performance Computing Open Textbook by Charles Severance High Performance Computing, originally published by O’Reilly–but out of print since 2003, has been republished on Connexions. Book author Charles Severance, with his editor Mike Loukides, worked with O’Reilly to release the book under a CC-BY license, then coordinated with the Connexions staff to republish it. The book is now freely available on the web and in PDF. Printed copies are available on-demand for the cost of printing and shipping. The CC-BY license also makes it possible for the entire contents of the book to be remixed and republished by anyone. (Note that Merlot allows CC licenses to be added to their submissions, these licenses enable us to pull content from Merlot and publish it in our collection.)
A student peer-reviewed scholarly journal like this example from the School of Social Work. A student handbook for traveling and doing research abroad, created with the support of the Center for Global Health, which is coupled with an interactive Google site that features discussion groups, an events calendar, and other resources.
A student peer-reviewed scholarly journal like this example from the School of Social Work. A student handbook for traveling and doing research abroad, created with the support of the Center for Global Health, which is coupled with an interactive Google site that features discussion groups, an events calendar, and other resources.