#1 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 2012 Copyright 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.

#2 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

#3 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

#4 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.

#5 Adapt and Create New Materials Provide tools and guides for educators and students to design, license, and share learning materials Gather Existing Materials Assist 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) Publicly Distribute Materials Promote the materials worldwide through multiple online and offline methods Facilitate Discussion Foster dialogue between health professionals around pedagogy, policy, peer review, and openness via onsite consultation, discussion lists, conference calls, and newsletters Approach

#6 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, Photo CC BY Saide.

#7 Visualization of greatest word frequency in YouTube comments – from wordle.net.

#8 OER Examples Midwifery students in Malawi at Kamuzu College of Nursing show off OER course materials on CD-ROM Photo CC BY Saide.

#9 Image CC:BY-NC-SA Saide and University of Botswana

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#11 PCR Animation, CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

#12 CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem

#13 CC BY-NC Cary Engleberg, Ohene Opare-Sem

#14 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

#15 Questions/Discussion

#16 Ted Hanss Chief Information Officer University of Michigan Medical School More information: openmi.ch/healthoernetwork Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Hewlett Foundation