Open.Michigan Enriching Scholarship Presentation

open.michiganThe University of Michigan’s Open Educational Resource initiative

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Begin at the end.

Where does this all lead?

toward a culture of “OPEN-ness”:

•a culture using creative materials for a variety of

purposes: art, music, education, etc.

•holistic view--how we get there is important

•defining the 21st century education landscape

What are the main features of OERs?

“...educational materials and resources offered

freely and openly for anyone to use and under

some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute”

•learning content (courses & learning assets)

•tools (CMS)

•implementation resources (CC licensing)

• faculty utilizing openly licensed educational media

• institutions supporting open access journals and textbooks

• developers building software tools on open source platforms

• keep door open to new modes of learning

How do we get there?

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Benefits to various groups:

•students

•faculty

•alumni

•self learners

•universities

•others throughout the worldCan benefit all these people simultaneously

Why do this?

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Open.Michigan goals

• share and make teaching and learning resources easier to reuse for people everywhere

• increase collaboration among educational content, courses, and larger curriculum

• utilize innovative Umich tools and explore research opportunities

• commitment to the mission of the university

• U-M students

• U-M faculty

• U-M alumni

• other universities

• self-learners

Can benefit all these groups simultaneously

High level benefits to:

• faculty can showcase work and connect with other researchers

• students participate helping with publishing, content creation

• students can gain a better understanding of what is happening at U-M, what courses might be like, and how to plan a future career or curriculum

• staff have a more transparent view of U-M work and materials, can participate in the education process, can better assist faculty research/instruction and student education

Specific benefits

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• Cost• Access to Faculty• Scale• Refresh Rate

How it’s being done, elsewhere

MIT OCW publication model

Staff Centric

Challenges

Goals:

•scalability

•sustainability

•participation

Approach:

•leverage institutional technologies: DeepBlue,

Sakai & Ctools

•U-M Libraries

•dScribes

Open.Michigan publication framework

• “Digital Scribes”

• motivated students

• organize, clear, tag course materials

• familiar with technology

• familiar with course material

• learn about intellectual property & copyright

dScribe model

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Class #1 Agenda:find dScribe for open.michigan

I’ll do it!

select a dScribe

IP

software tools

dScribe training course

fun!

workflow

license material

That’s

easy!

transfer material

Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

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Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

vet material content capture

tool

upload material

Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

Content ProcessingClass #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

review material

Who holds the copyright

to this image?

content processing

tool

edit material

final review

Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan Looksgood!

publication

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Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

dScribe Publishi

ng Process

roles

dScribe 2

dScribe

instructor

faculty transfers course material to

dScribe

faculty & dScribe connect

regarding interest in

OER

dScribe training course: IP,

software tools, workflow

faculty licenses course

materials for OER publication

dScribe identifies

and documents

IP issues

Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

team reviews and clears IP

issues

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dScribe makes necessary changes to

course material

Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

faculty reviews

material; publishes to

OER site

Class #1 Agenda:

find dScribe for open.michigan

publish to OER site

publish to OER site

Benefits to Students:

•master course content

•learn about IP

•establish connection w/ faculty

•get course credit

•get paid?

Benefits to Faculty:

•students in course know best!

•establishing connection w/ students

•quality assurance of materials

Open.Michigan publication framework

Open.Michigan publication framework

How will Michigan be different?

•process (dScribes, fair use, open search)

•multiple file formats

•international collaboration

•web 2.0/3.0

•outcomes, curriculum, career

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Piloting dScribes

Developing software

Modeling workflow

Publishing content

Sharing our work

Summer 2008

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• Closed Open: open search and replacement technique

• OER dScribe Tool demonstration

• walk away... very slowly

Choose your own adventure

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How can we improve this process?

Intellectual Property concerns are an obstacle

•a mess to navigate

•a mess to legislate

•a mess to litigate

• U-M team members

• OCW Consortium

• ccLearn & Creative Commons

• U-M Copyright Office

• funders (Hewlett Foundation)

Hope lies in collaborators and supporters

Action items!

Faculty, Students can

do two things early on:

1. search for and use

more open content

2. cite the work on which

you build

Staff, Students can

help faculty / others:

1. promote search tools

and copyright education

2. remind all that academic

work should be of

publishable quality ==

attribution

Where do you begin?

You have already started by:

• showing up today

• exploring the open search and the CC

licenses and marking materials

You can continue to help by:

• learning the dScribe process and applying it

• educating yourself about copyright and

alternative licensing

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