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Open Educational Resources (OERs) in Health Informatics
Hersh, William

PublishedOctober 2020
Book titleInformatics Education in Healthcare: Lessons Learned
Chapter 20, Pages 277-285
PublisherSpringer, Cham
EditorBerner, Eta S.
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
Open educational resources (OERs) are online resources that are freely available for use by students and educators. This chapter describes two major OER efforts in health informatics, discussing both their contributions and limitations. These resources can provide value to educators but also likely require maintenance to be most useful.

Keywords open educational resources · ONC Health IT Curriculum · NIH Big Data to Knowledge BD2K Program

LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-3-030-53812-5
RefereedYes
RightsSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
DOI10.1007/978-3-030-53813-2_20
Export optionsBibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar


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