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Broadening the Impact of Learning Materials
through Open Educational Resource Publishing
An invitation to Faculty and Educators to participate in the Medical School’s Health OER Initiative.
Join this Growing Initiative
In summer 2008, we
completed our first pilot
converting several M1/M2
sequences to OER. This
summer, 12 medical school
students and 20 faculty have
already agreed to participate,
with the goal of converting all
remaining M1/M2 sequences
into OER. For more
information, please contact
Dr. Joseph Fantone,
[email protected].
The Health OER program
provides the opportunity for
the University of Michigan
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?
Health OER
Participants at U-M:
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials
offered freely and openly for faculty, students, and selflearners around the world to use, build on, and redistribute.
• Medical School
• School of Dentistry
• School of Nursing
• School of Public Health
Health OER at the Medical School.
In 2007, the Medical School launched its Health OER Initiative,
with the goal of improving global health education and
healthcare delivery by converting all pre-clinical curricular
materials into OER. In addition to maximizing the impact of our
faculty-created educational content, we are collaborating with
universities in Ghana and South Africa to co-create new learning
materials.
External Funding:
• Hewlett Foundation
• Gates Foundation
Original Content
Our Approach.
Health OER uses students as dScribes, “digital
scribes,” who work with participating faculty to
publish their materials online.
After the OER
Process
A software tool called OERca, developed by the
UMMS Office of Enabling Technologies, assists
dScribes and other content creators in
transforming educational materials into OER.
Benefits of OER.
By making learning materials available as Health OER, U-M faculty
are broadening access to quality educational materials, improving
the visibility and reputation of their organizations, facilitating
feedback and improvement of materials, and increasing
collaboration with professionals at other institutions.
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Poster Presented by:
• Dr. Joseph Fantone
• Ted Hanss, MBA
• Lynn Johnson, PhD
• Garin Fons, MSI
• Pieter Kleymeer, MSI
• Kathleen Ludewig