Recognized as an OER
From the nominator:
The top reason this nomination deserves to be recognized with a 2025 Open Education Award for Excellence is its innovative, practice-aligned contribution to open education in health and human services—offering a quality, ethically sound, openly licensed bank of simulated client records built on the same electronic health record (EHR) platform format used in practice, by actual health care providers, helping students gain vital documentation and clinical reasoning skills.
Simulated Client Records is an innovative and groundbreaking open educational resource (OER) that addresses a critical and persistent gap in professional training: access to realistic, ethically appropriate, and pedagogically sound simulated health records.
What makes this resource exceptional is its authenticity and usability. Each client case is fully fictionalized but formatted to match the electronic health record (EHR) systems used by practicing professionals, ensuring students gain hands-on experience navigating documentation tasks they’ll encounter in the field
Simulated Client Records is indeed an innovative and groundbreaking OER, addressing a critical gap in professional training: access to realistic, ethically appropriate, and pedagogically sound simulated health records. It is my understanding that, normally, access to such records for training can be a significant challenge in the health professions due to privacy and security issues. I appreciate that all content is openly licensed and designed for broad adoption, adaptation, and reuse across institutions and disciplines. The tight focus of the project is commendable as well, making its uses and potential impact clear. I also am impressed by the diversity of the records developed. The project website is clear and easy to navigate as well.
Simulated Client Records also fosters a collaborative ecosystem by encouraging contributions of new records and use cases, aligning with OEGlobal’s vision of participatory knowledge creation. I agree that in both purpose and practice, “this OER advances open education as a vehicle for inclusive, learner-centered, and socially responsive health education” and believe that it is worthy of an OEAward.
Award Reviewer
What stood out to me in this project is its adaptability and invitation for others to build out the open asset with their own client records. This is a resource that many in all areas of healthcare can utilize and build upon. Since healthcare records are well protected (as they should be) having a database to utilize in teaching is much needed and such a good area for OER to focus upon.
Award Reviewer
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