The overall goal of this project is to develop a sustainable and scalable model for the systematic rollout of OERs to support health education on the continent. It aims to:
Engaging university leadership in implementing institutional policy frameworks that facilitate the success of OER.
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Enhancing an innovative, low-cost, and scalable process (dScribe) for converting educational materials into OER.
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Collaboratively developing educational materials as OER and deploying them in our respective curricula.
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Promoting the collaboration and its outputs through a community of practice web site.
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Establishing a framework for a longitudinal study of faculty productivity and the effect of OER on learning outcomes and provide feedback on socio-technical aspects of collaborative OER practices.
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Producing an evidence-based long-term logic model for Health OER based on a vision that multiple stakeholders will own, in which funders will invest, and which institutions are committed to sustaining. This consensus-driven model will be the basis of a Global Health OER follow-on proposal.
The OER materials produced in this initiative have been made freely available to students, faculty, and self-learners around the world through a Creative Commons license.