Come In, We’re Open: Finding and Using Open Educational Resources

Ira Gooding, Center for Teaching and Learning The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Free vs. Open

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Paul Stacey. CC-BY

Public Domain: Michael Reschke http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg

What are Open Educational Resources?

Creative Commons Licensing

http://creativecommons.org/license/

Creative Commons Licensing

What kind of OERs are out there?

6 Grace Kat. CC BY-SA. http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_kat26/3479810298/

Where can OERs be found?

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JHSPH OpenCourseWare

“I am using OCW to develop lesson plans to educate low-income families about health issues.” Jay C., WIC, Brooklyn, New York

8 Matthew Rutledge. CC BY-NC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rutlo/2891568780/

JHSPH OpenCourseWare

“I am using the course structure [of Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology] to create my own course, but I will be updating the readings and including other topics as well.” - Rachel Neal, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Louisville

9 Brandon Debes. CC BY-NC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/beelzebozo/2616107568/

JHSPH OpenCourseWare

“I plan to train a group of young students about nutrition. I will use the materials from Baltimore Food Systems by modifying it for a younger audience.” - Michelle Gabriel, New York

10 Bonito Club. CC BY-NC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonitoclub/5160005110/

Come In, We’re Open! Finding and Using Open Educational Resources

Ira Gooding Educational Resources Coordinator Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Michael Vaughn Assistant Dean for Information and Technology Integration Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Evolution/Future of OERs

https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

As a textbook alternative...

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

Open Online Courses MOOC

https://www.ai-class.com/

http://www.udacity.com/

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.coursera.org/course/healthpolicy

http://www.edxonline.org/

Fad or REVOLUTION?

HIT in Health Professions Education

“Utilize informatics—communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making using information technology.”1

1 Greiner, A. C., & Knebel, E. (Eds.). (2003). Health professions education: A bridge to quality. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.

AACN’s Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies

HITECH Act

ONC HIT Content

http://onc-ntdc.info/

Providing a “Hands-On” HIT Experience

• Cost of commercial EHRs • Limitations of proprietary systems • Chose VistA

VistA?

• The GOOD: – “Free” – Award Winning – Open for public distribution

• The BAD & UGLY – Patient database/cases – Not easy to adapt – Bureaucracy

“Hands-on” EHR Labs

• JHUSON EHR experience, Eclipsys SCM • CDCG “components” require use of an

EHR • VistA “flavors” – FOIA VistA • Client/server nature of EHRs not

conducive to teaching

“Eighteen,Patient” “SixtyTwo,Doctor”

Accomplishments

• Installer deployed widely with few problems

• Data in VistA tailored to match curriculum • Careful construction of exercises = less

student frustration

Challenges

• “Hard-hat” expertise needed to add/modify records in VistA

• InterSystems Caché ≠ RDBMS (SQL Server)

• CPRS a Windows application (64-bit challenged)

Future

• Wide-availability of VistA for Education • Build a community around this solution? • Shared effort/leveraged resources • A need in all health professions education • Conduct research not possible with

commercial systems

Questions?