Shared Resources &
the Use of Technology
Elise S. Eisenberg, DDS, MA
Senior Director of Informatics
New York University College of Dentistry
2011 ADEA Executive Director’s Report
Open Courseware /
Open Educational Resources
Course Material in a
virtual learning
environment that is
shared freely
MIT OpenCourseWare - http://ocw.mit.edu/
MIT OpenCourseWare - http://ocw.mit.edu/
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Proposed by MIT Faculty in 2000
2002 – 50 courses published
2007 – 1800 (virtually all) courses
2008 – A/V content added to YouTube,
iTunes U, and flickr
• ‘Intellectual philanthropy’ – the act of
faculty gifting their lifetime of scholorship
and teaching
Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
OER Commons - http://www.oercommons.org/
Academic Earth - http://www.academicearth.org/
iTunes U & Podcasts
Open Couseware Consortium
http://ocwconsortium.org/
Open Couseware Consortium
http://ocwconsortium.org/
• 250 universities and organizations
world wide
• 13,000 courses, 20 languages
• Dental:
– University of Michigan
– Tufts University
Open.Michigan
http://open.umich.edu/education/dent
Tufts OpenCourseware
http://ocw.tufts.edu/Schools/2
ADEA Curriculum Resource Center
http://www.adea.org/crc/
ADEA Curriculum Resource Center
http://www.adea.org/crc/
ADEA Curriculum Resource Center
http://www.adea.org/crc/
MedEd Portal - https://www.mededportal.org/
MedEd Portal - https://www.mededportal.org/
• Promotes educational scholarship and
collaboration
• Open exchange of peer-reviewed
teaching and assessment resources
• AAMC in partnership with ADEA
Dental Informatics Online Community
http://www.dentalinformatics.com/
Inter-Univesity Oral Health Research Database
• Dental schools at UT Houston, Harvard, UCSF and Tufts
• Long term goal is improving oral health by facilitating dental
patient care quality improvement, research, educational
advancement and discovery. They expect to create the first
comprehensive inter-university oral health dataset for
researchers and clinicians.
• Specific Aim 1: Refine Policies and Procedures for Data
Stewardship and Governance
• Specific Aim 2: Integrate Data from Four Dental Schools
• Specific Aim 3: Develop and Implement a User Portal
• Specific Aim 4: Evaluate User Portal
Why Share Resources?
Why Share Resources?
• Diminishing resources (budget) and faculty
• Increased exposure, reputation
• Significant opportunity to share content and
knowledge among colleagues and students
• Improved quality of educational resources
• Provides access to resources in other areas of
the world
• Supports the educational program
• Doing it anyway, why not share!
Opportunity and Timing
ADEA Strategic Priority:
Teaching and Learning – “Develop high
quality curricular tools and guidance”
• Web 2.0 education
• IPE
• Learning Commons
• ‘cloud’ technologies
• Outsourcing / Google
Challenges
Challenges
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Coordination
Keeping content up to date and relevant
‘Someone else will have my material’
‘I really like to teach’
Loss of competitive edge
Assessing content & adopting for curriculum
Copyright and licensing
Student learning styles
Challenges
• Needs to be accessible
• Sharing repositories – platform neutral
– iTunes / iTunes U, YouTube, flickr
Generation Z / Digital Natives
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Born early 1990’s – early 2000’s
Internet or ‘net’ generation
Lifelong use of communication and media
Very collaborative and creative
Shorter attention span, instant feedback
Headed for careers that don’t exist today
http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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Attribution (CC BY)
Attribution–ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
Attribution–NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)
Attribution–NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
Attribution–NonCommercial-ShareAike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC VU-NC-ND)
• Protect the rights you wish to keep while giving some of the
rights to others
Material to Develop – for discussion
• Catastrophe Preparedness
• Tobacco Cessation
• CODA Statements:
– 2-9 Critical thinking
– 2-10 Ability to self-assess
• Where is the expertise?
Developments & Resources
• TED Ed - http://education.ted.com/
• Learning Resources Metadata Initiative
– Improve education search and discovery
• Ed Resources Info Center – ERIC
– http://www.eric.ed.gov/
• Federal Resources for Ed Excellence –
– http://free.ed.gov/
Questions ??
Elise S. Eisenberg, DDS, MA
elise.eisenberg@nyu.edu
Changes in Dental School
Curricula, 2003-2009
J. American College of Dentists
Spring 2010
For the future, responding schools indicated the following
activities as the highest priorities for the next three years: to
create interdisciplinary curriculum around themes; to blend basic
and clinical sciences, implement an online core curriculum; to
develop new techniques for assessing competency; to collaborate
with other health professions education schools; and to establish
selective course offerings to augment the curriculum. Essentially
all of the resources and actions that were listed in both surveys
were identified as important by a higher percentage of
respondents in 2009 than in 2002-03 (professional development,
information technology, increased budgets for planning and
testing curricular change, examples of curricular changes, and
protected time for faculty). This may be due in part to reductions
in both faculty size and budget that schools have experienced in
recent years (Okwuje et al, 2009). It may also reflect greater
perceived urgency for curricular change. The respondents viewed
faculty development and expansion of information technology
capability as the greatest resource needs to support curriculum
change.