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.
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• 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• Collective Brainstorming• Concluding Remarks and Next Steps
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.
What is OER?
CC BY U-M. Full poster at http://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/howto-create-share-connect-poster.pdf
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.
What Is “The Network”?
The mission of the African Health OER Network is to advance health education in Africa by using open educational resources (OER) developed by and targeted toward Africans in order to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and support communities around health education.
• 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
Approach
• The Network is building the socio-technical infrastructure to draw in more African and, eventually, global participants, while also developing models of collaboration and sustainability that can be replicated in other regions of the world.
Activities: Training/Workshops
OER Africa Convening, 2011. Photo by: Saide.
Activities: Mentoring/Consulting
Photo by: Re-ality (Flickr)
Photo by: Sara Grajeda (Flickr)
Students in line for computer lab at University of GhanaPhoto by: The Regents of the University of Michigan (flickr)
University of Malawi Kamuzu College of Nursing. Photo by: Saide.
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Origins of OER at University of Michigan
• 2006-8, School of Information research• 2007, Dean of U-M Medical School
Commitment• 2008, Open.Michigan Initiative
Our mission is to help faculty, enrolled students, staff, and self-motivated learners maximize the impact of their creative and academic work by making it open and accessible to the public.
We help U-M and the world to:
View and download course
materials and educational
resources made by the U-M
community
Learn how to create your own open resources and share them on the web using tools and guides.
Explore the U-M open community
and its many projects.
Who
http://open.umich.edu/
Includes:
•Lecture slides•Audio and video•Image banks•Syllabi•Reading Lists•Assignments•Bibliographies
Any materials associated with teaching and learning!
Slide 3 http://www.newvideo.com/productdetail.html?productid=NV-AAE-71919Slide 4 Public Domain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hummer-H3.JPG Slide 5 Source: Undetermined from a variety of searches on Monster Truck DocumentarySlide 6 Source: Mega-RC.com
What is dScribe?dScribe, which stands for "digital and distributed scribes," builds on the idea that by distributing tasks across a variety of interested people and using digital tools and resources we can potentially lower the cost, time, and overall effort required to create OER.
dScribes assist authors to makework available as OER.
what types of third-party (i.e. created by someone other
than the author) objects might there be have in the content?
what should the author or dScribe do with those third-party objects?
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
Why be a dScribe at U-M?• Build skills and knowledge around open access, OER,
copyright, and copyleft
• Collaborate w/ other dedicated classmates, staff, and faculty
• Make resources more widely available (classmates, alumni,
universal access) with recognition
• Review topic or course content
• Free food
• Course or internship credit
• Possibility of future part-time or full-time employment
http://openbadges.org/
In addition to participating as dScribes, some students have also
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.