Open Educational Resources for Health Training

Presentation to SPH Symposium: Capacity Building for Global Health

Ted HanssChief Information Officer

University of Michigan Medical School8 October 2012

Slides posted at http://www.slideshare.net/ummedicalschool/Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). Copyright 2012 The Regents of the University of Michigan.Cover image CC:BY-SA Jessica Duensing (Flickr) 1

Image CC:BY-SA Colleen Simon (Flickr)

Free

Public

Under some licenses to use, adapt, redistribute

Share Legally with Open Educational Resources (OER)

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Why make your materials public and add an open license?

•Time (build on others’ effort)•Money (free to access)•Quality of content (more eyes to review)•Recognition & collaboration (worldwide visibility of authors)

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Human Resources for Health

• Any long-term solution to the global health crisis requires investment in human resources.

• Only well-trained health providers can ensure:– Achievement of the UN’s Millennium

Development Goals,– Implementation of global vaccination and

medication distribution, and– Preparation for the next epidemic

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Education Challenges

• Low budgets, small workforce, high disease burden

• Scarce, aging, and emigrating teaching staff

• Insufficient classroom spaces

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University of Ghana Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, 2010. Photo CC BY NC University of Ghana.

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.

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www.oerafrica.org/healthoer

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.

-Richard Phillips, lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine, KNUST (Ghana)

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

Adapt materials to local context

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Midwifery students in Malawi at Kamuzu College of Nursing show off OER course materials on CD-ROM

UNIMA, 2010. Photo CC BY Saide.

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https://open.umich.edu/blog/2012/01/31/mobile-a-prototype-spurred-by-the-hype/

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kludewig/oer-mobile/index.html

Image CC BY NC University of Ghana, University of Michigan.

11Caesarean Section OER Module, CC BY-NC University of Ghana and Dr. N. Cary Engleberg.

Partnerships between Physicians and Artists

ChallengeElectronic learning activities are not widespread; health instructors do not have time to learn multimedia skills.

Approach •KNUST: Multidisciplinary collaborations with the College of Art (Communication Design, Sculpture)•University of Ghana (UG): Hire external multimedia specialists with expertise in film and 3D animations

3D sculpture for training aboutCentral Nervous System.Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Additional photos on Flickr.

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Accomplishments

• 170 individuals trained • Student publishing assistants• 12 institutions have contributed

– 135 learning modules, including 339 separate materials

– 144 videos• Over 2 million YouTube views• Access from nearly every country around the world• Policy workshops and subsequent implementation of

OER-enabling policies13

OER Africa Convening, 2011. Photo CC BY Saide.

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Visualization of greatest word frequency in YouTube comments –

from wordle.net

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Ted HanssChief Information OfficerUniversity of Michigan Medical Schoolted@umich.edu+1.734.998.0086

More information:www.oerafrica.org/healthoerhealthoer@oerafrica.orgopen.umich.edu

Acknowledgement:This project is supported by the Hewlett Foundation