HealthOER

Neil Butcher

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology – (KNUST) Ghana
University of Ghana (UG) Ghana
University of the Western Cape (UWC) South Africa
University of Cape Town (UCT) South Africa
South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) South Africa
University of Michigan USA

Tel No:       +27 11 486-3651
Fax No:      +27 11 646-9800
Cell No:      +27 83 603-7773

Email:        neilshel [AT] icon.co.za

The overall goal of this project is to develop a sustainable and scalable model for the systematic rollout of OERs to support health education on the continent.  It aims to:
1.Engaging university leadership in implementing institutional policy frameworks that facilitate the success of OER.
2.Enhancing an innovative, low-cost, and scalable process (dScribe) for converting educational materials into OER.
3.Collaboratively developing educational materials as OER and deploying them in our respective curricula.
4.Promoting the collaboration and its outputs through a community of practice web site.
5.Establishing a framework for a longitudinal study of faculty productivity and the effect of OER on learning outcomes and provide feedback on socio-technical aspects of collaborative OER practices.
6.Producing an evidence-based long-term logic model for Health OER based on a vision that multiple stakeholders will own, in which funders will invest, and which institutions are committed to sustaining. This consensus-driven model will be the basis of a Global Health OER follow-on proposal.

Faculty and Students in Health Faculties

ICT