1. Open educational resources (OER) for health: a summer internship with OER Africa Presenter: Kathleen Ludewig (MSI/MPP Candidate 2010) Presented to: School of Information SI @ Work October 22, 2009 Copyright 2009 Kathleen Ludewig. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit.

2. Who is OER Africa? Small non-profit organization Founded in 2008 Funded by the Hewlett Foundation Mission: Connect like-minded African academics to create and share OER in higher education

3. OER Africa’s Health OER Project Partnership with five universities: University of Michigan Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) (Ghana) University of Ghana (UG) (Ghana) University of Cape Town (UCT) (South Africa) University of the Western Cape (UWC) (South Africa) Project objectives Create sustainable OER programs at the partner institutions with the long-term goal of improving health care education and increasing the number of trained healthcare professionals in Ghana and South Africa

4. Objectives & Outcomes Learning Objectives Learn about higher education in Ghana and South Africa Deepen knowledge about Ghanaian and South African copyright law Become familiar with the Ghanaian national service policy Build professional skills and cultural awareness regarding development work in Ghana and South Africa Project Deliverables 1.Summaries of the over 30 meetings I conducted with four institution 2.An OER toolkit as a training resourceOER toolkit 3.Documentation of existing processes at KNUST and UG 4.Contributed to a two-year follow-on draft grant proposal with the Hewlett Foundation

5. Observations of the Organization Clockwise: African Health OER Network first annual meeting, KNUST dScribes, UWC School of Public Health, UCT OER team

6. Skills & Abilities Communication broker Copyright Technical production (video, HTML) Flexibility in new environments (culture, constrained resources) Relevant SI classes: SI 519 (IP and Info Law), SI 575 (CIC Seminar), SI 670 (Information in Organizations)

7. Self-Observation

8. Questions? kludewig@umich.edu http://www.oerafrica.org/ https://open.umich.edu/wiki/