SI 521 - Special Topics: Open Educational Resources and the University of Michigan

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Term:
Winter 2009-2010
Published:
June 11, 2012
Revised:
June 5, 2015

This course is no longer taught at the U-M School of Information. These materials are from an older iteration of the course.

This course introduces students to the ideas and practices surrounding teaching, learning and research at a world class research university like the University of Michigan, and the emerging role in these practices of Open Educational Resources, including open content such as opencourseware, open access initiatives, open publishing of research and learning materials as found in open journals, databases and e-prints, open textbooks, related open software efforts such as open learning systems, and emerging open teaching experiments. The course will ground the students in how teaching, learning and research is done at the university level, and then survey relevant OER efforts, looking at their history, development, potential futures, and the underlying motivations for their progressive adoption by various members of the community of scholars. more...

This course uses an open textbook Open Educational Resources at the University of Michigan. The articles in the open textbook (wikibook) were written by the School of Information Graduate students in the class.

Instructor: Joseph Hardin

Course Level: Graduate

Course Structure: Three hour class - once a week

Student Authors: Mark Fleszar, Kim Hoff, Beth Ziobro, Mike Kargela, Tom Hayden, Elaine Engstrom, Katherine Marshall, Scott Berkley, Bobby Glushko, Travis August, Bryan Birchmeier, Samantha Bigger, Josh Ohlendorf, Eric Hansen, Heather Alderfer, Jessica Thudium, Lisa Bankey, Ashleigh Donaldson, Kathleen Ludewig,  and Johmarx Patton

 

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Term:
Winter 2009-2010
Published:
June 11, 2012
Revised:
June 5, 2015

Assignments

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Week 02: Opening Up Education - The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

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Week 03: Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education - JISC Briefing Paper

Student Authors

Week 06: The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain

Student Authors

Week 09: Health OER Assignment

Ted Hanss

Lectures

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Week 01: OER and the University of Michigan

Joseph Hardin

Week 02(a): ChemE Wikibook

Peter Woolf

Week 03: OER Pitch to University of Auckland

Joseph Hardin

Week 04(a): Copyright Basics

Joseph Hardin

Week 04(b): dScribe

Kathleen Ludewig

Week 05(a): Data is Different

Joseph Hardin

Week 05(b): Data Sharing

Philip Andrews

Week 10: Health OER

Ted Hanss

Miscellaneous

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Course/Resource Archive in Institutional Repository (October 2012)

Joseph Hardin

SI 521 Textbook: Open Educational Resources at the University of Michigan

Joseph Hardin and Student Authors

Student Notes

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Student Class Notes for Winter 2010

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