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Mobile-ready Maternal and Child Care modules now available

We are very pleased to announce that we have released updated mobile-ready versions of the HEAT maternal and child care modules for our OppiaMobile platform. This work has been made possible through funding from mPowering Frontline Health Workers and UKAID (DFID).

Although previously we had made available summary versions of all the HEAT modules, we now have the whole module content adapted for mobile delivery.

Which modules have been adapted?

So far, we have adapted the following HEAT modules:

  • Antenatal Care (Parts 1 & 2)
  • Labor and Delivery Care
  • Postnatal Care
  • Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness (Parts 1 & 2)
  • Immunization
  • Nutrition

Soon we will release adapted versions for the remaining 7 modules covering other public health issues such as communicable and non-communicable diseases, family planning and adolescent/youth reproductive health.

How have the modules been adapted?

The HEAT modules were originally written for the upgrade training for the Health Extension Programme in Ethiopia and is the approved upgrade training by the Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health.

For the mobile-ready adaptation process, we have removed specific references to Ethiopia and Health Extension Workers, along with cross references between different sections of the content. We anticipate that this will make it much easier for other organisations providing frontline health worker training to reuse/repurpose the content for their needs. However, the original full versions with all the Ethiopian references are also available.

We have also added extra quiz questions and video content – most of the video content has been provided by Medical Aid Films and Global Health Media Project.

We view the content adaptation as an iterative process, so we will constantly be working to improve the content with additional media and quiz content. We also welcome any feedback and suggestions on how to improve the adaptations (see below).

How can I access them?

There are 3 different ways to access the content – depending on your needs:

  • You can download the modules to run offline on your Android smartphone directly from the OppiaMobile learning app.
  • You can browse the content directly on our Moodle server. Although this applies the same stylesheet as when the content is viewed in the OppiaMobile app, the navigation and layout isn’t identical to the mobile app. This option is likely to be useful if you’d like to get a feel for the subject areas covered by the modules and the activities included.
  • You can download the Moodle backup versions of these courses. This option is designed for you to be able to install the courses on your Moodle server for the purposes of providing localised versions, perhaps to fit your curriculum, or with references to the country/region in which you are delivering training.

Can I reuse/adapt these courses?

Yes certainly, all the courses are released under a Creative Commons license, and we have specifically chosen media content which is also released under an open license. So you are free to adapt these courses to fit your needs.

Have any questions or would like to provide feedback?

We welcome any questions, feedback or suggestions on these courses or if you would like to discuss with us how you can integrate mobile learning into your health worker training programme. Please contact us at: info@digital-campus.org

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Map of OppiaMobile Users

[Update: map updated to show all users until 15 March 2014]

I just created a map of all the recent activity in OppiaMobile Android app based on the IP addresses our users are visiting from:

The map is just a point-in-time visualization of all our current users and since it’s based on IP addresses the locations aren’t exact (for example all users in Ethiopia are shown as being in Addis), but it’s sufficient to get a good impression on a country/regional level. The size of each ‘blob’ represents how many hits we’ve had from that location.

For info, here’s the process I went through to generate the map:

  1. Exact all the distinct IP address from our server logs
  2. Look up the IP address to get the city/region and country from the IPAddressLabs web service. I only signed up for their basic trial version – which doesn’t give the lat/lng – hence the requirement for the next step
  3. Look up the city and country using the GeoNames web service to get the lat/lng to then match up the IP address.
  4. Export the data and upload into CartoDB to create the visualization

Hopefully soon I’ll figure out how to make this a live map so it’s dynamically updated.

OppiaMobile Presentation for mPowering Frontline Health Workers

Yesterday, Roman presented the OppiaMobile platform & solutions at a meeting organised by mPowering Frontline Health Workers. This is an innovative public-private partnership designed to improve child health by accelerating the use of mobile technology by health workers around the world. The mHealth Alliance coordinates and amplifes the resources and expertise of their founding members: USAID, UNICEF, Frontline Health Workers Coalition, Qualcomm, Vodafone, Intel, MDG Health Alliance, GlaxoSmithKline, Praekelt Foundation and Absolute Return for Kids.

Here’s a short video about the work of mPowering Frontline Health Workers:

Update (24th Oct 2013): the presentation Roman gave can now be downloaded from the mHealth Working Group website.

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Presentation of OppiaMobile at the DaeSav conference

Alex has recently presented the OppiaMobile platform and our recent and ongoing projects with health workers in Ethiopia at the DaeSav Ethiopia Conference 2013 in Berlin “Innovation through Cooperation”.

Here is a copy of the presentation on SlideShare and we hope to be able to post soon a link to the video:

It was great to have been invited to speak at the conference and make many more contacts. We hope to be able to tie up our work on OppiaMobile with the work of Ahadoo – a new start up in Ethiopia developing mobile learning tools, currently focused on secondary education.

We’re hiring: Digital Content Developer for Primary Healthcare

Through our recent funding from DFID, we are looking to recruit a Digital Content Developer for Primary Healthcare to work with us on this project. A brief overview of the role:

  • You will be working with our medical and technical team to create and source high quality primary healthcare training content, activities and assessment for rural health workers in their continuous professional development activities.
  • You will ensure that all the training material is prepared to the highest standards of presentation, accuracy and educational value.
  • The ideal candidate will have excellent organisational skills and an ability to keep to tight deadlines. Proven experience of instructional design and teaching is essential.

and the key details:

  • Contract: 2 year fixed term contract
  • Hours: Part-time (20 hours p.w./0.5 FTE)
  • Location: Remote (home-based)
  • Salary: £26,600 to £28,700 p.a. (pro-rata)
  • Closing date: 13 September 2013

You can download the full job advert here: http://digital-campus.org/docs/ad-005.pdf and the job description here: http://digital-campus.org/docs/jd-005.pdf

To apply please send a copy of your CV with a supporting statement and details of 2 references to alex@digital-campus.org. References will not be taken up until after a job offer has been made.

New project: mobile learning with Health Extension Workers

We’re really pleased to announce that we have just received confirmation of funding for a new project working with mobile learning for Health Extension Workers. The project is funded by UKAid and we’re working with AMREF Ethiopia as the local implementing partners.

Over the coming 3 years we’ll be working with 160 Health Workers who are taking part in their Level 4 upgrade programme (using the HEAT content), supplementing the existing training content with additional videos and quizzes to track their performance, skills and knowledge, especially once they return to their health posts.

The main focus will be on maternal care, but we’ll cover all of the primary care topics in the HEAT content. This will give us an excellent opportuity to develop and extend the OppiaMobile application as well as provide us with some excellent information as to how the health workers get on with using mobile learning and how it may help to improve the services they provide to their communities.

You will be able to track the project progress via the DfID project database at: http://projects.dfid.gov.uk/ – the official project title is: “Improving Health Extension Workers’ training and effectiveness through continuous skills improvement, knowledge assessment and patient management processes for 160 Ethiopian health workers”. We’ll also be making regular updates about the project progress via this blog too.

OppiaMobile for NURHI in Nigeria

Digital Campus has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) from Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs(JHUCCP). NURHI has been running successfully for several years and now they are looking at ways in which they can use mobile learning to help support and train family planning providers.

Our collaboration is in its early stages and NURHI are currently pilot testing a slightly customised version of the OppiaMobile platform in preparation for a larger scale rollout later this year. Digital Campus has been supporting their development team in setting up and customising the application (both server and client side).

This is all excellent news for Digital Campus and OppiaMobile and will really assist us in ensuring the platform is developed in a way that will help re-use in other projects, countries and for other subject areas, which is one of the main objectives of the OppiaMobile learning platform. We look forward to continued collaboration with NURHI and JHUCCP.

OppiaMobile server updates

We’ve just made live a big update to the OppiaMobile server. The previous version (running from the http://mquiz.org/) has now been deprecated in favour of http://demo.oppia-mobile.org. The main reason for this change was to switch the focus from quizzes to courses. mQuiz as a site was only really being used to deliver the OppiaMobile courses, not for quizzes, so it didn’t make sense to have the focus of the site being on quizzes.

We also released a new OppiaMobile client app (v2.0.0), available from Google Play and by default this will now point to the new http://demo.oppia-mobile.org. Older versions of the OppiaMobile client app will still function fine without any updates, though obviously we’d recommend that you update your client app when possible.

For those interested in setting up your own OppiaMobile server, we’ve tried to make it easier to set up and install, so rather than downloading 3 different Django apps from GitHub, you can now install the server using ‘pip’, we’ve put up some initial installation documentation at: https://oppiamobile.readthedocs.org/ and we’ve updated the developer pages.

We’d really welcome any feedback on how we can make it easier for you.

New OppiaMobile Preview Video

We’ve just posted up an updated preview video of OppiaMobile, showing some of the recent interface updates we’ve made, plus, of course, the new name. We’ve also started to build up the OppiaMobile website, so gives learners, course authors and developers a better overview of how to use OppiaMobile.

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