TOEKOMSTBEELDEN was created through a collaboration between Radboud University, film festival InScience and healthcare organisation Kalorama. Filmmakers, scientists, healthcare professionals and people with experience in the healthcare sector came together to explore how technological developments could shape the future of healthcare. These different perspectives resulted in three short films: Meneer Groenendaal, Data van Troost and Avondronde.
The films do not offer a definitive answer to the question of what the future of healthcare should look like. Instead, they are intended to spark conversation. For example, the films can be used as a starting point for education on medical ethics or for discussions within healthcare organisations.
For cultural coordinator Martijn Stevens, it is precisely these different applications that demonstrate the value of open educational resources. By making the films openly available, interested users no longer have to get in touch to ask for permission to use them. I have literally just had another request this week from people saying: ‘Hey, this is a great project, can I use it?’ And now I can simply say: it’s online.”
Material that travels further
According to Stevens, valuable knowledge and creative materials should not remain unnecessarily inaccessible. “I can call myself a strong supporter of open access, open source, open everything.”
The TOEKOMSTBEELDEN films are therefore available under a Creative Commons licence. This makes it clear under which conditions others can use the materials. But for Stevens, open sharing goes beyond simply providing access. It also gives others the opportunity to use materials in new contexts.
“You can also encourage people to actively engage with the material. Instead of passively consuming something, you actively look for materials, engage with them and perhaps you could even do your own thing with it.”
This also means that, as a creator, you cannot always predict where your materials will end up. Stevens sees this uncertainty as an advantage. He hopes that the films will be used in ways that were not anticipated beforehand. And that is already happening: the films are being used in education, healthcare and other societal contexts.
“The project has produced a lot of unexpected but positive spin-offs,” Stevens says. “It was actually much richer than we had dared to hope beforehand.”
An example of open sharing
TOEKOMSTBEELDEN shows that open educational resources can reach a wider audience than originally intended. A film created for one project can later become the starting point for a lesson, discussion or conversation in a completely different context.
That is precisely the strength of open sharing: it makes knowledge and materials accessible to others and gives them the opportunity to create their own meaning and applications.
At Radboud University, GO OPEN encourages the use and sharing of open educational resources. TOEKOMSTBEELDEN demonstrates what can happen when you take that step: materials do not remain confined to the boundaries of a single project but are given the opportunity to travel further!
Watch the films from TOEKOMSTBEELDEN here
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Also explore the e-learning module on open educational resources
