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

Kathleen Ludewig Omollo International Program Manager, Office of Enabling Technologies

Medical School Information Services University of Michigan

January 2013, AITI-KACE OER Workshop Slides 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


“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 African 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.” African Health OER Network Participant from South Africa

Connecting institutions, individuals

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Phase One Build processes, tools, policy

Phase Two Refine processes, develop culture

Phase Three Build 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: Rene processes, develop culture 8


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 9


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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 Authors misunderstanding copyright or open licenses (e.g. adding other barriers to use) Shift from creation to adaptation

Opportunities 11


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

Explore 12


Open.Michigan Main - http://open.umich.edu Infokit - http://open.umich.edu/about/infokit

African Health OER Network

Summary - http://openmi.ch/blog-ahon-complete Main - http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer Newsletter - http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-newsletter

Models and Software

Guides – http://openmi.ch/healthoer-guides dScribe (Clearance Process) - http://open.umich.edu/dScribe OERca (Content Analysis) – http://open.umich.edu/wiki/OERca OERbit (Publishing) - http://open.umich.edu/oerbit Open Case Builder (Authoring) - http://openmi.ch/casebuilder

For more info, contact: [email protected]

This presentation builds upon slides and discussions with 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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