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Sharing knowledge beyond borders using Open Educational Resources: Lessons from University of Michigan’s experience

Kathleen OmolloUniversity of Michigan Medical School

January 2013, AITI-KACE OER WorkshopSlides at: http://openmi.ch/slides-aiti13

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

Share our knowledge,

Allow and train others to build upon it,

Gain new knowledge in return

2007: Vision 2

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Help our faculty,

students, staff and others to share their educational

resources and research with

the world

2008: Launch open.michigan 3

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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)

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2008: Launch health OER network 4

“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.”

A Network Participant from South Africa

Connecting institutions, individuals

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Phase OneBuild processes, tools, policy

Phase TwoRefine processes, develop culture

Phase ThreeBuild community, evaluate, strategize

Tactics 6

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P1: Build processes, tools, policy 7

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Identify and resolve policy issues

Address incentives for contributors

Develop training & software

P2: Refine processes, develop culture

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Make it easier for people to share

Increase awareness of open

Empower students as authors

Make it even easier for people to share

Catalyze community interests

Partner with other initiatives & projects

Monitor usage & assess impact

P3: Build community, evaluate, strategize

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Challenges 10

Myth that OER is separate from regular materials development

Myth that open licenses cannot coexist with peer review or print

Author misunderstanding copyright or open licenses (e.g. adding other barriers to use)

Shift from creation to adaptation

Opportunities 11

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Millions of resources licensed – many available for commercial innovation

Adaptation, translation, curation for new contexts and delivery methods

Open policy movement: public funds = public access

Learn more 12

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Open.MichiganMain - http://open.umich.eduInfokit - http://open.umich.edu/about/infokit

African Health OER NetworkSummary - http://openmi.ch/blog-ahon-completeMain - http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoerNewsletter - http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-newsletter

Models and Software

Guides – http://open.umich.edu/sharedScribe - http://open.umich.edu/dScribeOERca – http://open.umich.edu/wiki/OERcaOERbit (CMS) - http://open.umich.edu/oerbitOpen Case Builder – http://openmi.ch/casebuilder

For more info, contact: open.michigan@umich.edu

This presentation builds upon slides from other

Open.Michigan team members, including:

Emily Puckett Rodgers, Pieter Kleymeer, Garin Fons, Greg Grossmeier, Susan Topol,

Dave Malicke, Ted Hanss, and Erik Hofer

Presentation by Kathleen Ludewig Omollo. Copyright 2013 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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