This presentation includes example openly licensed learning materials for health education. The presentation was shared for a workshop "Open Education for Collaboration, Flexibility, and Global Visibility", which I gave at University of Nairobi on August 27, 2013. All of the materials for the workshop are available at http://openmi.ch/uon-aug2013.

1. Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
University of Michigan - Open.Michigan Initiative
Audience: University of Nairobi School of Public Health
Download slides: http://openmi.ch/uon-aug2013
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Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan.
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Example OER
For Health
Open Education for Collaboration,
Flexibility, and Global Visibility

2. Developing expertise 2
You have to learn/teach a significant
amount of health knowledge and skills.
There are millions of instructional materials
to support the process.

3. But there may be barriers ($, ICT, ©) 3
Possible barriers:
•Require Internet connection to access
•Require a computer or electricity to access
•Charge fee to access
•Prohibit copying or adaptations (universal
default)
•Be designed for different context

4. Which ones are accessible, relevant? 4

5. OER: University of Michigan SPH 5

6. OER: University of Michigan SPH 6

7. OER: University of Michigan Med School 7

8. OER: East Africa HEALTH Alliance 8

9. OER: East Africa HEALTH Alliance 9

10. OER: African Health OER Network 10

11. OER: African Health OER Network 11

12. OER: Johns Hopkins University SPH 12

13. OER: University of California - Irvine 13

14. Open Access: BioMed Central 14

15. OER: Research Articles for Health 15
African Journals Online (AJOL) includes 133 journals in the broad based
medical sciences. (http://www.ajol.info/)
African Journal of Reproductive Health is a published by the Women's
Health and Action Research Centre in Nigeria
(http://www.bioline.org.br/rh)
POPLINE for reproductive health articles and reports
(http://www.popline.org/)
BioMed Central includes 251 peer-review journals for science and
medicine (http://www.biomedcentral.com/)
PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed Central Europe contains government-
funded research (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/,
http://europepmc.org/)
Public Library of Science (PLOS) publishes seven journals in the biomedical
sciences, including one on neglected tropical diseases
(http://www.plos.org/)
British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open (http://bmjopen.bmj.com/)

16. OER: Databases with Health Facts 16
UNData can be used to access and search statistical data collected by
United Nations divisions and organization (http://data.un.org/)
World Bank Open Data includes 8,000 indicators across economic, social,
political, and geographical dimensions. (http://data.worldbank.org/)
Millennium Development Goals Indicators presents official data,
definitions, methodologies, and sources for more than 60 indicators to
measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx)
World Health Organization Global Health Observatory for country-level
data on priority health topics (http://www.who.int/research/en/)

17. OER: Medical Images and Illustrations 17
Gray’s Anatomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_and_subjects_in_Gray%27s_Anat
Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Wiki Premed http://www.wikipremed.com/image_archive.php
Public Health Image Library (PHIL) http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp
Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
http://lane.stanford.edu/biomed-resources/bassett/index.html
Johns Hopkins University Public Health Images
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/find.browse#images

18. OER: Videos and Animations 18
Open.Michigan Initiative at the University of Michigan
http://youtube.com/user/openmichigan
OER Africa Initiative of the South African Institute for Distance Education
http://youtube.com/user/oerafrica
Global Health Media Project
http://globalhealthmedia.org/newborn/videos/
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
http://www.youtube.com/user/knustoer
University of Cape Town http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthOERUCT
Clinical Skills Online http://www.youtube.com/user/sgulcso
World Medical School
http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldMedicalSchool
The Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library
http://novel.utah.edu/
Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine

19. OER: Textbooks for Basic Sci. and Health 19
African Virtual University http://oer.avu.org/
Connexions http://www.cnx.org/
Saylor.org http://www.saylor.org/books/
Open Stax http://openstaxcollege.org/
College Open Textbooks http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
US National Library of Medicine Bookshelf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books *
Global Library of Women’s Medicine http://www.glowm.com *
*Free to access, but all resources in collection are not licensed as OER

20. OER: Assorted health materials 20
Open.Michigan Initiative at the University of Michigan
http://open.umich.edu/
OER Africa Initiative of Saide http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer
MedEdPORTAL http://www.mededportal.org/
Curriculum Organizer for Reproductive Health
http://core.arhp.org/
University of Nottingham http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk
Sharing in Health http://www.sharinginhealth.org/
Our Med http://ourmed.org/
Health Education and Training in Africa
http://www8.open.ac.uk/africa/heat/
OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
Open CourseWare Consortium http://ocwconsortium.org/courses
MERLOT http://healthsciences.merlot.org/

21. Questions? 21
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