Explore the resources we’ve created to support our AMEE pre-conference workshop (#PCW 18) Developing as an open medical educational practitioner: How to share, reuse and remix learning resources.
Open medical education workshop
Open learning
Open Learning Initiative: using learning science to iteratively improve course design flickr photo by giulia.forsythe shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license As we begin to explore how you can develop as an open medical eduction practitioner let’s start by thinking about how we learn. Think about: The spaces that you learn in, both the…
Understanding copyright
Copyright license choice flickr photo by opensourceway shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license An important issue to be aware of as a medical educator and when creating digital learning resources and reproducing them and sharing them online is copyright. When you’re developing a teaching presentation in PowerPoint or an online interactive tutorial or perhaps…
OERs in Medical Education
Data Increasingly, as research moves towards open access, so data is also being shared. As well as the UK Data Archive, there is also Wikidata. If you are interested in data that others have processed, you may find some useful resources in Figshare. One of the most visually appealing ways of presenting data is Hans Rosling’s…
Managing and filing open resources
Over the years we’ve worked with many staff and students who’ve worked hard to develop digital learning resources but unfortunately haven’t been able to publish them. This is usually because they haven’t kept track of where they’ve sourced images and other digital assets from and they’re not sure if they’re copyrighted, reusable under a CC…
Publishing and Curating content
Publishing There are a lot of ways to publish and share content. Where you decide to publish your work will depend on the type of content and the audience that you want to reach and how you want to licence it. Photographs, pieces of writing, videos, presentations, data and 3D models can all be shared…
Anatomy of the larynx: an OER case study
Posterior and Anterior View of the Larynx by Annie Campbell flickr photo by dundeetilt shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license To finish off we’d like to share a case study of some medical education OERs that were developed by a student who worked with us on our Doctor as Digital Teacher student selected component…
Open Medical Education Practice 