Abstract OpenMichigan at HSJ Symposium

Title: Build Capacity for Health Education Using Open Licenses

For http://sujalsymposium.org/2013-agenda/, March 23, 2013

Abstract:

This station will inform symposium participants how to develop, share, and find information for widespread use, re-mixing, and re-distribution using open licenses. The station will focus on University of Michigan's program for health Open Educational Resources, which are learning materials that are publicly available, free to access, and licensed to allow others to copy, adapt, and distribute online or offline. Through the Open.Michigan Initiative (http://open.umich.edu/), we have already seen numerous examples of learning materials developed by University of Michigan and our partner medical schools in Africa that has been used, translated, or otherwise adapted by students and instructors at institutions in other countries.

Students, you can share your content too! For example, over forty University of Michigan students wrote the Student Handbook for Global Engagement to share their collective knowledge for a roadmap for planning research and service projects abroad. Now it's available to other students worldwide to use and adapt: http://openmi.ch/cgh-handbook. Pick up some our guides to learn how you can use open licenses to maximize the impact and visibility of your own creations.

Intended outcomes:


 * Awareness of available open educational resources that people can use or adapt for health training
 * Awareness of how to share one's own work under open licenses
 * New joiners for the Open.Community U-M mailing list
 * New joiners for the quarterly African Health OER Network newsletter http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-newsletter
 * New volunteers to translate videos
 * Demonstrate LibraryBox as a potential distribution method for learning materials that does not require Internet access.