sisjs - open education as an enabler for collaboration, flexibility, and global visibility

Kathleen Ludewig OmolloUniversity of Michigan - Open.Michigan Initiative

University of Michigan, School of Information, Social Justice Series

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Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Copyright 2013-4 The Regents of the University of Michigan.

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Open Education as an Enabler for Collaboration,

Flexibility, and Global Visibility

Image CC:BY-NC-SA 350.org (Flickr)

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Context: Health DisparitiesContext: Increased demand for education

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Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

When you look in textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases.

[S]ometimes 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.

Professor at Partner Institution in Ghana

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Context: Health DisparitiesContext: Lack of relevant materials

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Context: Health Disparities

4Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.

Context for Global Activities: Disparities

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Image CC:BY-NC University of Ghana

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Context: Health DisparitiesContext for Global Activities: Limited space and instructors available

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Any educational resources that are:

1.Free to access

1.Publicly available

2.Shared under some licenses to use, adapt, redistribute

Open Educational Resources (OER) 6

Vision of open education

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circulate new ideas

develop new skills

foster collaboration and innovation

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Image CC:BY OpenCage (Wikimedia Commons)

Open licenses signal intent 8

Image CC:BY Orin Zebest (Flickr)

All rights reserved limits use, automatically

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Open licenses mean some rights reserved

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Learn more at open.umich.edu/share/license

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All Rights Reserved(default)

11“All rights reserved” is the default. 11

Option: Creative Commons(two C’s instead of 1 C)

(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/)

12“Some rights reserved” is an alternative.

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What is a license?

Licenses let people know how they may use a copyrighted

work.

Image CC:BY-SA lumaxart (Flickr) 13

Image CC:BY Paul Albertella (Flickr)

With open licenses, you can build, legally.

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Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

It can be difficult to find relevant materials.When you look in

textbooks it’s difficult to find African cases.

[S]ometimes 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.

Professor at Partner Institution in Ghana

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16Caesarean Section OER Module, CC BY-NC University of Ghana and Dr. N. Cary Engleberg.

Flexibility of Content

Image CC:BY NC University of Ghana and Cary Engleberg

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17Caesarean Section OER Module, CC BY-NC University of Ghana and Dr. N. Cary Engleberg.

Flexibility of Content

Image CC:BY NC St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medial College (Ethiopia), University of Ghana, Cary Engleberg

(placeholder to Lia)

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Distribute Content 18

• High technology cost• Limited technology availability (equipment, understaffed dept.) • Unpredictable infrastructure

noii’s, flickr

lydia_shiningbrightly, flickr

Distribute Content 19

• provide a local wireless network …• provide content via web browser …• provide content via file or app server …• do this with or without the Internet …• do it with or without an electrical outlet …• do all of this for <=$200 …

20Raspberry Pi Model B

Distribute Content 20

High Visibility 21

High Visibility 22

Inclusion in first page of search results

Recognition 23

Recognition 24

CC BY, http://umhsheadlines.org/29/interview-with-obgyns-dr-caren-stalburg-mooc-creator-reflects-on-lessons-learned/

Translation 25

Search Indexing 26

Inclusion in first page of search results

Quality / Peer Review 27

Illustration is All Rights Reserved Susan E. Haviland, 2008. From the article: Minds on Fire, by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler, 2008, at http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/minds-fire-open-education-long-tail-and-learning-20. The text of this article is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

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Active learner engagement 28

Illustration is All Rights Reserved Susan E. Haviland, 2008. From the article: Minds on Fire, by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler, 2008, at http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/minds-fire-open-education-long-tail-and-learning-20. The text of this article is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

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Active learner engagement 29

“We have limited resources but because of the Internet, we can share. The South has diseases [the Global North] knows nothing about. Our materials are relevant to us and in the North.”

Professor at Partner Institution in South Africa

Exchange of knowledge 30

Image Public Domain by kuba (OpenClipArt)Learn more: http://openmi.ch/blog-ahon-remixes

31Scalability: Health OER Network, 2008

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Scalability: Health OER Network, 2013

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Cost Savings 33

Slide from: http://wcet.wiche.edu/connect/oer-webcast

Cost Savings 34

Slide from: http://wcet.wiche.edu/connect/oer-webcast

Takeaway: Many resources available to you

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Millions of open resources available

Adaptation, translation, curation for new contexts and delivery methods

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Use open licenses to use, exchange, remix educational materials legally and globally.

Amplify the visibility and impact of your work – while keeping copyright and attribution.

Key: What you create is relevant to others

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For more info:kludewig@umich.edu

open.umich.edu

Download slides: http://openmi.ch/sisjs14

Presentation by Kathleen Ludewig Omollo. Copyright 2013-4 The Regents of the University of Michigan. Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

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Questions and Feedback? 38