Open biomedical engineering education in Africa

Moshi, Mainen J.

Open biomedical engineering education in Africa

dc.contributor.author	Moshi, Mainen J.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-14T13:04:08Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-14T13:04:08Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	Despite the virtual revolution, the mainstream academic community in most countries remains largely ignorant of the potential of web-based teaching resources and of the expansion of open source software, hardware and rapid prototyping. In the context of Biomedical Engineering (BME), where human safety and wellbeing is paramount, a high level of supervision and quality control is required before open source concepts can be embraced by universities and integrated into the curriculum. In the meantime, students, more than their teachers, have become attuned to continuous streams of digital information, and teaching methods need to adapt rapidly by giving them the skills to filter meaningful information and by supporting collaboration and co-construction of knowledge using open, cloud and crowd based technology. In this paper we present our experience in bringing these concepts to university education in Africa, as a way of enabling rapid development and self-sufficiency in health care. We describe the three summer schools held in sub-Saharan Africa where both students and teachers embraced the philosophy of open BME education with enthusiasm, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of opening education in this way in the developing and developed world.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Ahluwalia, A., Atwine, D., De Maria, C., Ibingira, C., Kipkorir, E., Kiros, F., Madete, J., Mazzei, D., Molyneux, E., Moonga, K. and Moshi, M., 2015, August. Open biomedical engineering education in Africa. In 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 3687-3690). IEEE.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319193
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1144
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)	en_US
dc.subject	Biomedical engineering	en_US
dc.subject	Education	en_US
dc.subject	Africa	en_US
dc.title	Open biomedical engineering education in Africa	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US