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Knowledge Diffusion Inc (DBA Osmosis)
For Promoting Open Educational Practice Through Scalable Technology
AMOUNT
$300,000
PROGRAM
Education
DATE AWARDED
4/10/2018
TERM
18 Months
TYPE OF SUPPORT
General Support/Program
STRATEGIES
Open Educational Resources
OVERVIEW
Osmosis takes an open educational pedagogy approach by creating freely available health education videos and disseminating them to a global audience, and partnering with WikiProject Medicine and UCSF School of Medicine to offer credit-bearing electives to students who create open educational resources as part of their degree programs. Osmosis will expand these efforts by improving the 300 highest priority health topics on Wikipedia, thereby advancing the Education Program’s strategic goal of facilitating mainstream adoption of OER, while simultaneously promoting deep, competency-based learning among students and offering people around the world a rich learning experience about the most common and serious health afflictions. |