For introduction to Open.Michigan International Activities

The bulk of Open.Michigan's international work to date has focused on higher education in Africa (health in Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya; engineering and agriculture in Liberia). Most our activities center around the theme of enabling more flexible, interactive student-centered training in the various university settings. In particular, we've focused on employing free or low-cost, often openly licensed, educational content and technologies as tools to build learning resources that are relevant to local contexts, conveniently available, and affordable to access, to create, and to tailor to varying curricula. Some of our activities include:


 * assessing the current technology and information services infrastructure at partner institutions to determine feasibility of low-cost, sustainable methods of creating and delivering electronic learning materials (e.g. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/85731)
 * mentoring instructors, support staff, and students on how to license, locate, design, adapt, evaluate, and otherwise integrate media-based learning into their education programs
 * development of sustainable socio-technical models for collaborative education and research initiatives (e.g. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/94530)
 * coordinating regional and virtual communities of practice (e.g. http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork-connect, http://openmi.ch/oer-tech-profiles)
 * packaging learning materials in multiple formats (e.g. editable and compressed, digital and print on demand), through multiple online channels (https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Distribution_Flow_and_Model_for_OER), and distributing through offline and semi-connected methods through local area networks (e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/ummedicalschool/2013-06-raspberry-pi-semi-connected-content-deliverycc-by)
 * enabling volunteer captions and translations (http://openmi.ch/translation-overview)

The University of Michigan has a number of longstanding projects in [name of country/ies].

Depending on what what topics and audience level you're interested in, I could refer you to some directories to search relevant open educational resources (e.g. http://open.umich.edu/share/use) or similar projects in [your country / region].

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