Open educational resources (OER) for health: a summer internship with OER Africa

Presenter:Kathleen Ludewig (MSI/MPP Candidate 2010)

Presented to: School of InformationSI @ WorkOctober 22, 2009

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Who is OER Africa?

Small non-profit organization

Founded in 2008

Funded by the Hewlett Foundation

Mission: Connect like-minded African academics to create and share

OER in higher education

OER Africa’s Health OER ProjectPartnership with five universities:

•University of Michigan

•Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

(Ghana)

•University of Ghana (UG) (Ghana)

•University of Cape Town (UCT) (South Africa)

•University of the Western Cape (UWC) (South Africa)

Project objectives

Create sustainable OER programs at the partner institutions with the

long-term goal of improving health care education and increasing the

number of trained healthcare professionals in Ghana and South

Africa

Objectives & Outcomes

Learning Objectives• Learn about higher education in Ghana and South Africa• Deepen knowledge about Ghanaian and South African copyright law• Become familiar with the Ghanaian national service policy• Build professional skills and cultural awareness regarding development work in Ghana and South Africa

Project Deliverables 1.Summaries of the over 30 meetings I conducted with four institution 2.An OER toolkit as a training resource3.Documentation of existing processes at KNUST and UG 4.Contributed to a two-year follow-on draft grant proposal with the Hewlett Foundation

Observations of the Organization

Clockwise: African Health OER Network first annual meeting, KNUST dScribes, UWC School of Public Health, UCT OER team

Skills & Abilities

Communication broker

Copyright

Technical production (video, HTML)

Flexibility in new environments (culture, constrained resources)

Relevant SI classes: SI 519 (IP and Info Law), SI 575 (CIC

Seminar), SI 670 (Information in Organizations)

Self-Observation

Questions?

kludewig@umich.edu

http://www.oerafrica.org/

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