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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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]

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