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The University of Michigan Medical School is a leader in innovative uses of technology
to enhance teaching and learning. By supporting open practices, we are broadening the reach
and impact of medical education.
Michigan has developed a vast collection of media-rich open content, which has been distributed
worldwide. We monitor the usage of these materials across several online environments.
We have built tools to simplify the process of creating and sharing open educational resources.
Open educational resources or OER are educational materials that are offered freely and openly
for anyone to use and − under some licenses − to remix, adapt, and redistribute.
Open health initiatives began at Michigan in 2007, when the Dean of the Medical School,
Dr. James Woolliscroft, proposed to share the full first and second year curriculum
for undergraduate medical education as OER.
Since then, we have shared 648 materials, from 71 faculty from the first and second
year curriculum.
Among the course materials, we have lecture slides, audio narrated lectures, and histology
laboratory drawings from faculty.
Students are also sharing their work. We have 230 notes published from 5 students covering
11 sequences.
In addition to our course content, we have other supplemental learning materials.
For professional development, we have a series of workshops and videos designed for current
health professionals working in pediatric palliative care.
One Michigan professor co-authored a number of microbiology videos with lecturers at Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. The collection of 12 videos has
received a sum of 220,000 views on YouTube, with most views in U.S., UK, India, Saudia
Arabia, and Egypt.
The same Michigan physician collaborated with a different lecturer in Ghana to create a
learning module on mycobacterium ulcerans infection (also known as buruli ulcer). That
instructional module has since been used as a supplemental resource for an internal medicine
class at Michigan.
Our medical histology and virtual microscopy collection is a heavily used reference in
first-year lectures. Currently, content from the collection is being adapted for the iPad.
We have a number of other mobile apps in development as well.
Our collection also includes faculty development materials, such as a resource to aid instructors
in facilitating discussions on race, gender, *** orientations, and socioeconomic diversity.
Patient education materials available include instructional videos featuring child patients
using pediatric asthma equipment.
The components of the social history is an example of a learning material that was accepted
and peer-reviewed by MedEdPORTAL. This module is used by second year students as part of
their chemical foundations course. A number of other standardized patient cases and guides
developed by Michigan professors are available as OER through MedEdPORTAL.
In addition to our growing collection of learning materials, we provide a rich, robust environment
that supports the creation and distribution of open content.
dScribe is a production model that provides a workflow for collecting, reviewing, formatting,
and publishing OER. Over the past four years, 17 medical students and over 50 other Michigan
students have participated in the dScribe process.
OERca is an open source software application that can be used to manage the process of
clearing materials for privacy, copyright, and other policy issues.
OERbit is an open source publishing platform for OER. OERbit is the software we use to
run the Open.Michigan website, which includes open educational resources from the medical
school as well as from other schools on campus.
At University of Michigan, we continue to explore ways to expand the medical school's
impact and influence through open. We look forward to continuing the discussion with
others at the medical school summit about potential opportunities to collaborate.