Author Archives: Ali Wyllie

MBE for Dr Basiro Davey

Congratulations to Dr Basiro Davey, Deputy Director HEAT (Ethiopia), and Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences who has been made an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to health and higher education. Basiro joined the OU in 1976 after completing a … Continue reading

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HEAT Modules featured by African Health OER Network

This month the 13 Ethiopian HEAT modules are highlighted in the  October newsletter of the African Health OER Network. The newsletter reaches out to OER creators across Africa to share new developments and resources.

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New HEAT Website goes Live!

I am very pleased to announce the launch of our new HEAT website at: http://www.open.ac.uk/heat. Please pass this link on to interested colleagues and institutions. The new look website will carry the latest information about the programme, keep you up to … Continue reading

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OER Africa Conference 16-18th May

Ali Wyllie, HEAT Lead eLearning advisor, attended the 3-day OER Africa Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, organised by SAIDE (the South African Institute of Distance Education). The overall purpose of the conference was to determine how best to take forward the OER agenda in Africa. … Continue reading

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BBC features HEAT programme

Programme four from the Health Check team focusses on Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme and went to air on Wednesday 13th April on the BBC World Service. The programme is available as a podcast on the BBC iPlayer. Health Check’s Claudia Hammond reports from … Continue reading

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Health Check – Medical Brain Drain

The Open University in partnership with the BBC World Service, present a series of special editions of Health Check, the weekly round-up of global health stories and topical issues in medicine. The series is presented by Claudia Hammond. Episode 3 … Continue reading

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Distance Learning for Health: What works?

The (LIDC) London International Development Centre’s new report, ‘Distance Learning for Health: What works’ by Chris Joynes, presents findings from a global review of distance learning programmes for medical professionals in low and middle income countries. The report was launched … Continue reading

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Final Tutor Training Workshop in Adama

Adama was the biggest of the four regional tutor training workshops, with over 60 participants from the Oromia Region.  The training was very well received, and there was lots of enthusiasm for the HEW Upgrading Programme.  However this is the largest of … Continue reading

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Tutor Training Workshop in Hawassa

The third tutor training workshop began 8th February in Hawassa for those who will be implementing the upgrading programme for the Health Extension Workers in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia.  The workshop was very well received. At the … Continue reading

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HEW Upgrading Programme in Dire Dawa

Tutor training for the Health Extension Worker (HEW) Upgrading Programme took place in Dire Dawa 1-4 February. Participants in the workshops were drawn from the Dire Dawa and Harar regions of Ethiopia and included tutors, supervisors and regional health bureau staff. Following the … Continue reading

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