Come In, We’re Open: Finding and Using Open
Educational Resources
Ira Gooding, Center for Teaching and Learning
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Free vs. Open
Paul Stacey. CC-BY
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What are Open Educational Resources?
Public Domain: Michael Reschke
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg
Creative Commons Licensing
Creative Commons Licensing
http://creativecommons.org/license/
What kind of OERs are out there?
Grace Kat. CC BY-SA. http://www.flickr.com/photos/g_kat26/3479810298/
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Where can OERs be found?
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JHSPH OpenCourseWare
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“I am using OCW to develop
lesson plans to educate lowincome families about
health issues.” Jay C., WIC,
Brooklyn, New York
Matthew Rutledge. CC BY-NC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rutlo/2891568780/
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JHSPH OpenCourseWare
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“I am using the course
structure [of Reproductive
and Perinatal Epidemiology]
to create my own course,
but I will be updating the
readings and including other
topics as well.” - Rachel
Neal, Assistant Professor,
Environmental and
Occupational Health
Sciences, University of
Louisville
Brandon Debes. CC BY-NC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/beelzebozo/2616107568/
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JHSPH OpenCourseWare
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“I plan to train a group of
young students about
nutrition. I will use the
materials from Baltimore
Food Systems by modifying
it for a younger audience.”
- Michelle Gabriel, New
York
Bonito Club. CC BY-NC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonitoclub/5160005110/
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Come In, We’re Open!
Finding and Using Open
Educational Resources
Ira Gooding
Educational Resources Coordinator
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Michael Vaughn
Assistant Dean for Information and Technology Integration
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Evolution/Future of OERs
https://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
As a textbook alternative...
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Open Online Courses
MOOC
https://www.ai-class.com/
http://www.udacity.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.coursera.org/course/healthpolicy
http://www.edxonline.org/
Fad or REVOLUTION?
HIT in Health Professions Education
“Utilize informatics—communicate, manage
knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision
making using information technology.”1
AACN’s Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing
Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
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Greiner, A. C., & Knebel, E. (Eds.). (2003). Health professions education: A bridge to quality. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.
HITECH Act
ONC HIT Content
http://onc-ntdc.info/
Providing a “Hands-On” HIT Experience
• Cost of commercial EHRs
• Limitations of proprietary systems
• Chose VistA
VistA?
• The GOOD:
– “Free”
– Award Winning
– Open for public distribution
• The BAD & UGLY
– Patient database/cases
– Not easy to adapt
– Bureaucracy
“Hands-on” EHR Labs
• JHUSON EHR experience, Eclipsys SCM
• CDCG “components” require use of an
EHR
• VistA “flavors” – FOIA VistA
• Client/server nature of EHRs not
conducive to teaching
“Eighteen,Patient”
“SixtyTwo,Doctor”
Accomplishments
• Installer deployed widely with few
problems
• Data in VistA tailored to match curriculum
• Careful construction of exercises = less
student frustration
Challenges
• “Hard-hat” expertise needed to
add/modify records in VistA
• InterSystems Caché ≠ RDBMS (SQL
Server)
• CPRS a Windows application (64-bit
challenged)
Future
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Wide-availability of VistA for Education
Build a community around this solution?
Shared effort/leveraged resources
A need in all health professions education
Conduct research not possible with
commercial systems
Questions?