Presentation to Science of Team Science conference at Northwestern University on June 25, 2013 as part of panel "Collaboration between Developed and Developing Countries Offers Opportunities to Amplify Global Health Research." Downloadable versions of the slides (in PPT and PDF) format as well as presenter notes are available at: http://open.umich.edu/node/7377/.

1. 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

2. 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: http://openmi.ch/sts13ahon
Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Copyright 2013 The Regents of the University of Michigan.

3. Context: Health Disparities
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Source: World Health Organization. Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006.
WHO Publications: Geneva. 2006.

4. Context: Increased Demand for Education
Image CC:BY-NC-SA 350.org (Flickr)
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5. Context: Limited Instructor Capacity and Space
Image CC:BY-NC University of Ghana
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6. 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
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7. African Health Open Educational Resources Network
Image CC:BY Sherrie Thai (Flickr)
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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
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8. 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
8Approach 8
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9. Organizational Structure
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10. • “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)
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Open Practices

11. Image CC:BY-SA Colleen Simon (Flickr)
Free
Public
Under some licenses to use, adapt,
redistribute
Open Practices: Attributes of Content that is “Open”
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12. values
ongoing
stakeholder
engagement
project
phases
4.Closure
3.Execution
2.Planning
1.Design
Professional
DevelopmentManaging Relationships
Ongoing Assessment
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13. Regional Network: South - South
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Image CC:BY-SA Scott Maxwell (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
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14. “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)
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15. Regional Network: Building Capacity
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Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (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)

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Regional Network: Partners in 2008

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Regional Network: Current Partners

18. Evaluation: Assessing the Program Model
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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

19. Evalution: Highlights
2009 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 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”
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20. Email: kludewig@umich.edu
Slides URL: http://openmi.ch/sts13ahon
Newsletter:
http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-
newsletter
Websites: http://oerafrica.org/healthoer,
http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork
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.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
Closing: References and Contact
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