Open Education as an Enabler for Collaboration, Flexibility, and Global Visibility Kathleen Ludewig Omollo University of Michigan - Open.Michigan Initiative University of Michigan, School of.
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Open Education as an Enabler for Collaboration, Flexibility, and Global Visibility
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo University of Michigan - Open.Michigan Initiative University of Michigan, School of Information, Social Justice Series
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Copyright 2013-4 The Regents of the University of Michigan. 1
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Context: Health Disparities
Increased demand for education 2 Image CC:BY-NC-SA 350.org ( Flickr ) 2
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Context: Health Disparities
Lack of relevant materials
When you look in textbooks
it ’s difficult to find African cases .
[S]ometimes 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.
Professor at Partner Institution in Ghana
Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 3 3
Context: Health Disparities
Disparities Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006. WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.
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Context: Health Disparities
Limited space and instructors available 5 5 Image CC:BY-NC University of Ghana
Open Educational Resources (OER) Any educational resources that are: 1. Free to access 1. Publicly available 2. Shared under some licenses to use, adapt, redistribute 6
Vision of open education circulate new ideas develop new skills foster collaboration and innovation 7 Image CC:BY Sherrie Thai ( Flickr )
Open licenses signal intent 8 Image CC:BY OpenCage ( Wikimedia Commons )
All rights reserved limits use, automatically 9 Image CC:BY Orin Zebest ( Flickr )
Open licenses mean some rights reserved 10 Learn more at open.umich.edu/share/license Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway ( Flickr )
“All rights reserved” is the default.
All Rights Reserved (default)
“Some rights reserved” is an alternative.
Option: Creative Commons (two C ’s instead of 1 C) (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/)
What is a license?
Licenses let people know how they may use a copyrighted work.
Image CC:BY-SA lumaxart ( Flickr ) 13
With open licenses, you can build, legally.
14 Image CC:BY Paul Albertella ( Flickr )
15 It can be difficult to find relevant
textbooks
it ’s difficult to find African cases .
[S]ometimes 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.
Professor at Partner Institution in Ghana
Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Flexibility of Content 16 Image CC:BY NC University of Ghana and Cary Engleberg Caesarean Section OER Module, CC BY-NC University of Ghana and Dr. N. Cary Engleberg. 16
Flexibility of Content (placeholder to Lia) 17 Image CC:BY NC St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medial College (Ethiopia), University of Ghana, Cary Engleberg 17
Distribute Content 18
Distribute Content • • • High technology cost Limited technology availability (equipment, understaffed dept.) Unpredictable infrastructure lydia_shiningbrightly, flickr 19 noii ’s, flickr
Distribute Content • • • • • • provide a local wireless network … provide content via web browser … provide content via file or app server … do this with or without the Internet … do it with or without an electrical outlet … do all of this for <=$200 … 20 20 Raspberry Pi Model B
High Visibility 21
High Visibility Inclusion in first page of search results 22
Recognition 23
Recognition 24 CC BY, http://umhsheadline s.org/29/interview with-obgyns-dr caren-stalburg mooc-creator reflects-on-lessons learned/
Translation 25
Search Indexing Inclusion in first page of search results 26
Quality / Peer Review 27
Active learner engagement 28 Illustration is All Rights Reserved Susan E. Haviland, 2008. From the article: Minds on Fire, by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler, 2008, at http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/minds-fire-open-education-long-tail-and learning-20 . The text of this article is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
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Active learner engagement 29 Illustration is All Rights Reserved Susan E. Haviland, 2008. From the article: Minds on Fire, by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler, 2008, at http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/minds-fire-open-education-long-tail-and learning-20 . The text of this article is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
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Exchange of knowledge
“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 .
” Professor at Partner Institution in South Africa
30 Image Public Domain by kuba ( OpenClipArt ) Learn more: http://openmi.ch/blog ahon-remixes
Scalability: Health OER Network, 2008
Scalability: Health OER Network, 2013 32
Cost Savings Slide from: http://wcet.wiche.edu/connect/oer-webcast 33
Cost Savings Slide from: http://wcet.wiche.edu/connect/oer-webcast 34
Takeaway: Many resources available to you Millions of open resources available 35 Adaptation, translation, curation for new contexts and delivery methods Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway ( Flickr )
36 Key: What you create is relevant to others Use open licenses to use, exchange, remix educational materials legally and globally.
Amplify the visibility and impact of your work – while keeping copyright and attribution.
Image CC:BY Alan Cleaver ( Flickr )
Engage For more info: [email protected]
open.umich.edu
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