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Broadening the Impact of Learning Materials
through Publishing Open Educational Resources
An Invitation to Participate in the Medical School’s Health OER Initiative.
The Health OER program provides
the opportunity for U-M’s health
science schools to collaborate in
an innovative, comprehensive
approach to work with others to
improve education opportunities for
health care providers globally. As
we participate in this effort to help
improve medical education in
developing countries, we are
transforming our health curriculum
to provide students with richer
learning experiences and
strengthening their ability to
practice in a global health context.
James O. Woolliscroft, MD
Dean, U-M Medical School
What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials offered
freely and openly for faculty, students, and self-learners around the
world to use, build upon, and redistribute.
Health OER at the Medical School.
In 2007, the Medical School launched its Health OER Initiative,
with the goal of advancing global health education and healthcare
delivery by converting all pre-clinical curricular materials into OER.
Our Approach.
In addition to maximizing the impact of our faculty-created
educational content, we are also collaborating with universities in
Africa to co-create new learning materials and build a sustainable,
scalable OER program to improve the delivery of health education.
Benefits of OER.
Crowded conditions during rounds can interfere with
students’ ability to learn. OER enables students to review
materials before and after each session to reinforce
learning.
By making learning materials available as Health OER, U-M faculty
are broadening access to quality educational materials, increasing
their visibility, improving the reputation of their institutions,
facilitating feedback and improvement of materials, and increasing
collaboration with professionals at other institutions.
U-M Health OER Participants:
• Medical School
• School of Dentistry
• School of Nursing
• School of Public Health
Global Participants:
• OER Africa
• University of Ghana
• Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology
• University of Cape Town
• University of the Western Cape
External Funding:
• Hewlett Foundation
• Gates Foundation
Examples of Med School OER
Join this Growing Initiative!
Midwifery students in Malawi at Kamuzu College of
Nursing show off OER course materials on CD-ROM.
Our goal is to publish the entire M1/M2 curriculum as OER. To date
we have 55 Faculty participating and have published 250 Learning
Materials across 23 Sequences and all are available here:
open.umich.edu/education/med
For more information, contact [email protected]
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Poster Presented by: Dr. Cary Engleberg, MD; Ted Hanss, MBA; Lynn Johnson, PhD;
Pieter Kleymeer, MSI; Kathleen Ludewig, MSI/MPP