PRESENTERS: Nancy L. Dianis, RN, MS, Westat Vice President and Associate Director of the Clinical Trials Area Kathleen Ludewig Omollo, MPP, MSI, Program Manager, Office of Enabling Technologies, Medical School Information Services. University of Michigan Airong Luo, PhD, Medical School, University of Michigan 25 June 2013 Collaboration between Developed and Developing Countries Offers Opportunities to Amplify Global Health Research

Regional Networks to Stimulate Multi-directional Knowledge Sharing Kathleen Ludewig Omollo Program Manager, Office of Enabling Technologies Medical School Information Services. University of Michigan Slides URL: Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan.

Context: Health Disparities 3 Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report WHO Publications: Geneva

Context: Increased Demand for Education Image CC:BY-NC-SA 350.org (Flickr)Flickr 4 4

Context: Limited Instructor Capacity and Space Image CC:BY-NC University of Ghana 5 5

Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Context: It is Difficult to Find 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 6 6

African Health Open Educational Resources Network Image CC:BY Sherrie Thai (Flickr)Flickr 7 Advance health education in Africa by: Creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge Identifying and addressing curriculum gaps Bridging health education communities 7

Adapt and Create New Materials Provide tools and guides for educators and students to design, license, and share learning materials Gather Existing Materials Find existing learning materials that are free, electronic, and licensed to allow anyone to copy, adapt, and share Publicly Distribute Materials Promote the materials worldwide through multiple online and offline methods Stimulate Discussion Foster dialogue between health professionals around pedagogy, policy, and peer review 8 Approach 8 8

Organizational Structure 9 9

“using the content, tools and processes shared with us; enabling others to use, share and adapt what we create; and supporting transparency in our content, tools and processes” School of Open, Peer to Peer University Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)Flickr 10 Open Practices

Image CC:BY-SA Colleen Simon (Flickr)Flickr Free Public Under some licenses to use, adapt, redistribute Open Practices: Attributes of Content that is “Open” 11

transparent collaborative participatory values ongoing stakeholder engagement project phases 4. Closure 3. Execution 2. Planning 1. Design Professional Development Managing Relationships Ongoing Assessment 12

Regional Network: South - South 13 Image CC:BY-SA Scott Maxwell (Flickr)Flickr “ African universities struggle to have access to information. If we have information, why do we not also share it as part of a pool of universities to exchange information for the purpose of improved learning.” Dean at Partner Institution in Ghana 13

“Through the Health Open Educational Resources program, 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, M.D. Dean, University of Michigan Medical School Regional Network: Local + Global Benefits Image CC:BY tuppus (Flickr)Flickr 14

Regional Network: Building Capacity 15 Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)Flickr Nuturing individuals and institutions Workshops On-site collaborative projects External training opportunities For context, innovation, and sustainability, connecting people with peers at other institutions Quarterly newsletter Interest groups Regional events (workshops, conferences, publications)

16 Regional Network: Partners in 2008

17 Regional Network: Current Partners

Evaluation: Assessing the Program Model 18 Independent evaluation Annual qualitative interviews and report of impact of the project within each of the four African partner universities Evaluations by Central Coordination Team Cross-Institutional Collaboration Study - communication between the six organizations, and the policies, processes, and technologies that influenced those interactions Institutional Case Studies Periodic Monitoring of Web Analytics

Evalution: Highlights 2009 report2009 report: “Expectations and contractual targets had been met or exceeded by an impressive margin, with project coordinators and participants in each institution having engaged OER in creative ways that were most appropriate to their own contexts” 2012 report2012 report: “OER developed through collaborative networks can lead to more productive teaching and learning” “Enhanced quality is evidenced in the accounts of academics and students as well as in new quality assurance peer-review mechanisms” 19

Slides URL: Newsletter: newsletter Websites: Presentation by Kathleen Ludewig Omollo. Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan. Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Closing: References and Contact 20