This is a summary of participant evaluations from the Health Open Educational Resources Technology Africa Regional Workshop, 3 - 5 October 2012, Agenda at http://openmi.ch/oertechafrica2012notes.

1. Summary of Daily Evaluations from the Health Open Educational
Resources (OER) Technology Africa Regional Workshop
3 - 5 October 2012
Daily feedback forms were collected from participants at the end of each day.
Responses have been aggregated, anonymized and randomized. The agenda and
collection of associated materials is at http://openmi.ch/oertechafrica2012notes.
Respondents
Day Responses Participants
Oct 3rd 18 21
Oct 4th 16 21
Oct 5th 18 22
Total 52
Institutions represented in the evaluations include: University of Cape Town,
University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,
University of the Western Cape, University of Nairobi, National University of
Rwanda, St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, University for Development
Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in
ICT, University of Michigan, and the South African Institute for Distance Education.
To what extent did today’s workshop meet your expectations?
Of 51 responses, 41 reported that the workshop met their expectations and 10
reported that their expectations were exceeded. Some highlights from the
responses:
• “Flexible agenda, unconference style, was able to adapt to people's schedules
and interests”
• “The rich diversity of technical people and faculty from various institutions
provided a great opportunity for the exchange of information.”
• “I have learnt greatly about policy development and implementation.”
• “Good mix of discussion, presentation, and hands-on work”
• “Good discussions at right level and length”
• “As a media expert have been exposed to some challenges in OER materials
production such as clearing the content and now I know how to do that
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2. perfectly and can assist others to do the same.”
• “Workshop was straight to the point”
• “I got more than that I expected. It is very participatory.”
• “All expectations were met: social interactions, time adherence, content rich
presentations.”
• “Today was great a lot of information, ideas, it really did meet my expectation
re-energized my OER initiative”
• “I especially liked the hands-on activities for the analytics, in-depth
knowledge on Google Analytics”
What, if any, skills or knowledge did you gain from today’s workshop?
Amidst the 50 free-form responses were the following themes:
Monitoring and analyzing usage of open content (e.g. Google Analytics) 14
Audio and video capture editing 13
Policy analysis and implementation 8
Identify challenges and potential approaches to promoting OER 6
Copyright clearance 5
Purpose and options for content management systems 5
Open licenses 4
Search and discovery of open content 4
Tactics for recruiting authors 4
Instructional design 3
Identify areas of potential collaboration 2
What aspects of today’s workshop did you find most useful? Provide examples.
One respondent commented, “It might sound too good to be true, but everything is
most useful. I thought already knew many e-tools but I learnt a lot from everything.”
Amidst the 50 free-form responses were the following themes:
Monitoring and analyzing usage of open content (e.g. Google
Analytics) 13
Policy analysis and implementation 9
Institutional case studies 7
Tactics for engaging students 6
Tactics for recruiting authors 6
Interaction with other institutions 5
Audio and video capture editing 5
Content Management Systems 3
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3. Instructional design 3
Copyright clearance 2
Open licenses 2
Phases of production of open content 2
Small group discussions 2
What aspects of today’s workshop did you find least useful? Provide examples.
Amidst the 43 free-form responses were the following themes:
None or N/A 41
Phases of production of open content 1
Weak Internet connectivity during session 1
What would you suggest that we exclude, add or change for tomorrow’s or
future workshop agendas?
Amidst the 47 free-form responses were the following themes:
More hands-on activities 8
More discussion of policy analysis and implementation 5
More Small-group discussions 4
Address how to design and create new learning materials (principles
and tools) 4
Demonstrate how to search, discover, and distribute open content 4
Highlight learning and content management systems 3
Continue unconference style with adaptable daily agenda 2
In-depth review of existing OER from peer institutions 2
Discussion of post-workshop follow-up 2
How to adapt an existing OER 2
Live-streaming of presentations 2
More opportunities to informally interact with colleagues 2
More copyright clearance activities 1
Encourage presenters to speak loudly and slowly 1
Incorporate social media (e.g. Twitter) 1
Incorporate introduction to programming languages 1
More detail about open licenses 1
Opportunities for skills development for oral and written
communication 1
Fix intermittent Internet connectivity during session 1
Based on the whole workshop, what are your ideas for future collaborative
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4. projects between the partner organizations?
This question was asked in the feedback form on the final day. There were 15
responses. Themes mentioned include:
Convening virtual discussions and workshops 4
Share existing learning materials to avoid duplication 2
Exchange visiting practitioners between peer institutions (guest talks, 2
short-term on-site expertise)
Share more institutional case studies 1
Develop tactics and workshops for incorporating OER awareness into 1
medical student orientation
Develop OER for mobile devices 1
Create a shared repository for African medical images 1
Create an African MOOC 1
Based on the whole workshop, what are your discussion ideas for the future
Health OER tech conference calls?
This question was asked in the feedback form on the final day. There were 13
responses. Themes addressed include:
Discuss Strategies from OER advocacy- in country and institutional 6
General progress updates from each institution 6
Principles and processes for designing and creating OER 3
More interactive, hands on activities 2
Useful tools for multimedia production, with a focus on open source 2
options
Methods of adapting existing OER 1
Discuss intellectual property and open licenses 1
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