Open Michigan’s OER collection showcases teaching and learning resources and experiences from University of Michigan (U-M) faculty, students, staff, and partner institutions. The Open Michigan initiative seeks to foster a thriving culture of sharing knowledge and scholarship at the University of Michigan, enabled by Standard Practice Guide 601.28 by building and supporting communities of open education resource producers and users. Open Michigan does not provide permanent and accessible service to U-M produced digital works for an extended period of time, instead, we deposit content into the university’s institutional repository, Deep Blue.
Scope of Hosted Educational Content
U-M Open Educational Resources (OER): Teaching and learning materials produced by U-M faculty, students, and staff that are licensed under a Creative Commons license (“open license”) that allow for redistribution, copying, and adaptation. Openly licensed teaching and learning objects from partner institutions may also be hosted on open.umich.edu.
Types of Hosted Content: Assignments, articles, artistic works, lecture presentations, notes, image collections, syllabi, and other scholarly output (e.g. research papers, dissertations, manuscripts), training materials, teaching and/or learning objects and resources recorded in a digital medium.
For Hosted Content published after January 1st, 2017, Open Michigan conducts an accessibility review of all materials that we publish, and we strive to ensure that all materials comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at the AA level. For content published prior to January 1st, 2017, we are in the process of remediating materials to improve accessibility, beginning with the most popular courses and resources.
Scope of Referenced Educational Content
The Open.Michigan collection will provide web links to U-M produced resources and experiences that are publicly available online for free. Prior to October 24, 2016, we included content with copyright restrictions in our referenced educational content; this content may or may not be licensed for personal duplication, modification, or redistribution. For resources added to the collection after October 24, 2016, we require all referenced content to be shared under an open license that permits reuse, such as a Creative Commons license. Open Michigan cannot guarantee that all referenced content is licensed for reuse and users of referenced content should verify the license and terms of use of any external website visited. In addition, for referenced content added after October 24th, 2016 we conduct an accessibility review, and provide guidance to site owners to improve accessibility of their websites. Open Michigan cannot guarantee that all referenced content is accessible to users with disabilities.