Eye care human resources faces many challenges. Limited training facilities and faculty, not enough ophthalmologists and eye care teams, poorly distributed and isolated workforces. This is a central challenge, in low and middle-income countries, where 90% of avoidable blindness is found.

Historically, ‘Open Education’ has involved reducing the barriers to education and making it more accessible by lowering cost and delivery at distance. Our technological age has provided new ways to expand and apply the principles of Open Education through the global sharing of knowledge and ideas on the internet.

ICEH is hosting a series of webinars in 2017 to explore some of these ideas and opportunities with eye care educators and organisations.

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Speaker 1: Dr Daksha Patel, eLearning Director at ICEH/LSHTM, explores the relevence of digital innovation for teaching and learning in eye care and how local educators can use Open Education to support curriculum development, support faculty and assure quality.

Speaker 2: Dr Rob Farrow, Research Fellow for Learning and Teaching Innovation at the Institute of Educational Technology, Open University discusses recent findings from a large international survey on the benefits and challenges educators and learners experienced when using Open Educational Resources.

Webinar host: Ms Sally Parsley, Technical lead on the ICEH Open Education programme.

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Download the PPTs and transcript and find out more about ICEH's Open Education progamme at http://iceh.lshtm.ac.uk/oer/webinars