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Health OER Workshop

Health OER Inter-Institutional Workshop in Cape Town, South Africa - OER Africa and the University of Michigan hosted a Health OER Inter-Institutional Workshop in Cape Town, South Africa from 27 – 29 July 2009. The objective of this workshop was to introduce new African institutions to the Health OER Project and identify future strategic partnerships.  As well as reviewing progress made to date, discussions will focus on the potential future of a Health OER Network for Africa and the principles upon which its operation should be based. Click here to download the workshop agenda and participants list.

Click here to download the African Health OER Network presentation.

Click here to visit the African Health OER Network space.

Welcome to the Health OER Inter-Institutional Project space. This space is set up for sharing deliverables, and promoting collaboration, among the Health OER Project participants through a community-of-practice website. This effort is based on collaboration between the University of Michigan, OER Africa, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the University of Ghana (UG), the University of Cape Town (UCT), and the University of the Western Cape (UWC).

Within this space you will find descriptions of the Health OER Project and its activities, research reports and evaluations, as well as project status and timeline information. Although the primary audience for this space is the project participants, we welcome health practitioners, funding organizations, or anyone with an interest in developing a sustainable and scalable health OER programme to read, review and reuse our materials.
HEALTH OER INTER-INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT

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: 

  1. Engaging university leadership in implementing institutional policy frameworks that facilitate the success of OER.

  2. Enhancing an innovative, low-cost, and scalable process (dScribe) for converting educational materials into OER.

  3. Collaboratively developing educational materials as OER and deploying them in our respective curricula.

  4. Promoting the collaboration and its outputs through a community of practice web site.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.
PARTICIPANTS INSTITUTIONS

The Health OER Inter-Institutional project is a consortium of institutions collaborating on the creation of African OER resources in the medical sciences. The following universities are members of the Health OER Inter-Institutitional project:

  1. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

  2. University of Cape Town

  3. University of Ghana

  4. University of the Western Cape


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