Presentation about Open Educational Resources at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, given at the Health Open Educational Resources Technology Africa Regional Workshop in Accra, Ghana on October 4, 2012.
Authors: Ben Prempeh, Adam Rahman, Moro Ismaila, George Koffuor, and John Marfo about KNUST Open Educational Resources.
For more about OER at KNUST, visit http://web.knust.edu.gh/OER.
Presentation is CC BY Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
4. Introduction
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
and Technology (KNUST), located in Kumasi,
Ghana, is the second largest university in
Ghana, with over 30,000 students.
8. The College of Health Sciences (CHS) is the first
of KNUST’s six colleges to launch an OER
initiative, supporting the production and use of
Open Educational Resources.
CHS is made up of over 2,000 students and
comprises; the Faculties of Allied Health
Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Dental
School, School of Veterinary Medicine and the
Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in
tropical medicine (KCCR).
9. POLICY OVERVIEW FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF OPEN
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)
In early 2009, CHS established an interdisciplinary committee of
faculty, staff, and librarians across the university to examine the
institutional faculty development and intellectual property policies.
The purpose of the OER Policy is to:
identify human resource to support faculty in turning teaching and
learning material into OER.
clarify publication rights and policies regarding the use of required
infrastructure (information technology, library, etc) and other support
services.
define collaborations within and [beyond] the university and the intent
to allow access.
develop and review OER materials prior to sharing them on a
worldwide scale.
11. Workshop Health OER Tech Workshop, Kumasi - Ghana . Oct
27-28, 2011
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Health OER Tech Africa - 2012 Workshop Oct 3-5,
2012
Image courtesy of UG. CC BY
12. Workshop
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Health OER Tech Africa - 2012 Workshop Oct 3-5,
2012
Health OER Tech Africa - 2012 Workshop Oct 3-5,
2012
14. TEAMWORK
The University encourages a teamwork approach to
curriculum and materials development to bring together
different kinds of expertise available across the
university e.g. disciplinary, pedagogic, design, systems,
ICT, etc.
SCIENCE , ART &
TECHNOLOGY
Image: courtesy of Adam Rahman. CC BY
19. What we have!
Projects:
25 Complete Projects
5 WIP
Website: oer.knust.edu.gh
Access to educational resources and information
Online Depot
Based on KAN - Open Source CMS
Analytics – Google Analytics
20. What we have!
YouTube: youtube.com/knustoer
Over 40,000 views & 40 subscribers in 1
year
Analytics – YouTube
Support:
Student Volunteers
NSS Persons
Studio Space @ DeCoDe