Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Copyright © 2011 The Regents of the University of Michigan and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

OER activities through University of Michigan, African Health OER Network, and Beyond

Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, U-M3 November 2011

KNUST DeCoDe Guest Talk

Presentation to be posted at http://www.slideshare.net/group/openmichigan

Outline

• 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

Photo by wakingtiger

History of the African Health OER Network

Ward Rounds. Photo by: University of Ghana.

Ward Rounds at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Photo by: Cary Engleberg

Context: Crowded Ward Rounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjJe8ZJkJU (1 min, KNUST Student)

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.

Participant Map - Individuals

85 Individuals Signed Declaration of Support

http://batchgeo.com/map/d70937ef6be461a3571274817b590a52

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

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)

Dkscully (flickr)

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)

Activities: Platforms & Distrib.

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!

What

http://open.umich.edu/about/infokit

http://www.slideshare.net/group/openmichigan/slideshows/

Workshops and Events

•How to create OER?•Why create or use OER?•How to find OER?•Design challenges for new materials that would be OER

Pop quiz

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).

True or false: A work must be published and registered in order to be granted copyright protection.

False.

End pop quiz

“Open Licenses”

OER *mostly* uses Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons

Creative Commons: licenses

OER Creative Commons: licenses

X X

Some rights reserved: a spectrum for OER

least restrictive most restrictive

Public Domain

All Rights ReservedXXX

What does this mean for authors?

Find, Use, Remix, and CreateOpen Learning Materials

Enriching Scholarship, 6 May 2011 Susan Topol, Kathleen Ludewig Omollo

Image from opensourceway (flickr) under a Creative Commons BY-SA license

Copyright © 2011 The Regents of the University of MichiganExcept where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Phalaenopsis audreyjm529

orchis galilaea CC:BY-SA judy_breck (flickr) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Angraecum viguieri GNU free documentation orchi (wikipedia)

Attributions

Author, title source, license

Attributions page at endTitle slide: CC: Seo2 | Relativo & Absoluto (flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seo2/2446816477/ | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Slide 1 CC:BY-SA Jot Powers (wikimedia commons) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bounty_hunter_2.JPG | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Slide 2 CC: BY-NC Brent and MariLynn (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/2960420853/ | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

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

http://www.mega-rc.com/MRCImages/Asscd_Mnstr_GT_ShockOPT.jpgSlide 7 CC:BY-NC GregRob (flickr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregrob/2139442260/ |

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en Slide 8 CC:BY metaphor91 (flickr) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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

authored OER.

http://open.umich.edu/education/engin/che/che466/fall2008

http://open.umich.edu/education/ssw/resources/michigan-journal-social-work/2010

http://open.umich.edu/education/sph/resources/student-handbook-global-engagement/2011

dScribes outside of U-M

openmichigan, Flickr(UCT, South Africa)

openmichigan, Flickr(KNUST, Ghana)

openmichigan, Flickr(UCT, South Africa)

Student –driven OER activities Elsewhere

• Pontifical Catholic University of Peru• International Association for Political Science

Students• University of Berkeley DeCal -

http://www.decal.org/courses/1460 • Students for Free Culture - http://freeculture.org/ • University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences –

Student Recommended OER

Collective Brainstorming:Past Events

https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Health_OER_Network_Design_Jam_March_2010

https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Health_OER_Network_Design_Jam_November_2010

https://open.umich.edu/wiki/%27Textbook%27_of_the_Future

DeCoDe Collective Brainstorming• How can you grow OER with DeCoDe

course/instructional content and/or DeCoDe students providing technical support?

• How can you mobilize the unique skills of DeCoDe students to raise awareness of OER across campus?

Concluding RemarksOER is seen as means to streamlining health (and other disciplines) education, not an end in itself.

African colleagues have specialized knowledge that can be useful to health professionals worldwide.

KNUST Communication Design students possess many skills that can enhance OER.

QUESTIONS

Email: kludewig@umich.edu

Websites http://open.umich.edu

http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/

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.