OER Websites and Repositories to Which Africa Contributes
This section provides links African repositories and international repositories to which African Higher Education Institutions may contribute. This collection of OER and open access repositories was collected in relation to our themes, namely, Agriculture, Health, Teacher Education and Foundation Skills. There are also however repositories covering all subjects.
WikiMedia
Wikimedia is a free species directory that has over half a million articles and images to help identify species from birds to Hippopotamus.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OCW Collection
This is an OCW created by John Hopkins University, aimed at educating the public about public health care. It offers over 80 medical related courses and statistical analysis of certain issues in the health sector.
WikiPremed
The WikiPremed MCAT Course is a compelling and substantive MCAT review course, that is completely open access. There are no registration fees or restricted areas at WikiPremed. It contains science related courses, quizzes and images to assist with the learning process
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.
The Open University
OpenLearn is an Open University initiative offering free courses to the public. These courses are comprised of Articles, educational packages including images and videos on a range of fields including Psychology,Sports and Health.
ECG Learning Centre
This sites offers interactive ECG tutorials which form an introduction to clinical electrocardiography. It provides terminology, illustrations and diagnostic concepts into one of the most useful clinical tools in medicine.
Merlot.org
Merlot.org is a website that comprises of health practisioner community. The members publish content covering thewhole health sector. It includes articles, journals, videos and images that is freely accessible to the public for educational purposes.
World Bank Group
At the World Bank, the Development Data Group coordinates statistical and data work and maintains a number of macro, financial and sector databases. Working closely with the Bank's regions and Global Practices, the group is guided by professional standards in the collection, compilation and dissemination of data to ensure that all data users can have confidence in the quality and integrity of the data produced.
BioMed Central
Health human resources also known as human resources for health (HRH) or health workforce is defined as "all people engaged in actions whose primary intent is to enhance health". Human resources for health are identified as one of the core building blocks of a health system.They include physicians, nursing professionals, midwives, dentists, allied health professions, community health workers, social health workers and other health care providers, as well as health management and support personnel
Open Educational Resource for Cancer
The Merlot's OERC's portal is open and free for everyone around the world to use to find free, open, and online educational and training resources and to participate in online community conversations with cancer researchers, physicians, healthcare professionals, and others working in cancer education to freely share experiences and expertise.