U-M Open Ed Landscape

U-M Open Ed Landscape

This page provides a quick summary of the various projects and collaborations Open.Michigan is a part of and intends to pursue in the near future.

LSA
Ojibwe Studies (American Culture Department) - working with Meg (Margaret) Noori and Howard Kimewon, Piet and Bobby G are looking at ways to not only publish course materials on Open.Michigan, but also publish stories through MPublishing with CC licenses.

UMMS
RetinDx - developed by Dr. Zacks, this is a faculty-created/rights-owned work that simply needs a CC license. Point to the Eyes Have It as an example for him?

Health OER Network
- create a duplicate cache of Health OER on Open.Michigan

CORE China
- mirror our site content at CORE

Miscellaneous Projects

 * Lecture capture - on campus, OpenCast
 * see notes from 2009 vision session: Add


 * integrate OER use into teaching (M1/M2)
 * see notes from 2009 vision session: Add


 * Video policy
 * pushing fair use as a way to publish lots of low-quality lecture capture videos seems like a great first step
 * a second step will be to figure out how to get faculty to capture lecture at home and make sure the presentations are already cleared (maybe this is a 4th or 5th step).


 * search and discovery of OER (in collaboration with Creative Commons, MSU)
 * interest group (international)
 * setting up and testing DiscoverEd w/ CC -> Health OER instance (PK)
 * integration w/ Library (PK, GG)


 * open university scorecard (helps w/ metrics)
 * see http://wiki.freeculture.org/Open_University_Report_Cards
 * prospective students
 * current students
 * faculty


 * OM evaluation metrics (usage, content, anecdotes) (ST, PK, KL)
 * see notes from 2009 vision session: Metrics
 * see Open.Michigan Evaluation Metrics Open.Michigan_Evaluation_Metrics


 * OM Engagement Strategy
 * including communications strategy
 * including U-M community engagement strategy (multiple audiences, multiple levels of engagement)
 * one project for students: the open syllabus project - we need to do it. the library can help. it'll be like a gateway drug for faculty and students

Partnerships to Pursue
- Note: We need to develop a community engagement strategy as we consider cultivating these relationships including: a communications plan, conducting focus groups and interviews with audience types and creating profiles for engaging our different audiences in a multi-tiered strategy.

Library
- coordinate with Copyright office on outreach and education efforts as well as clearing assistance and legal and policy meetings

- work on integration and close collaboration projects (see the report list)

SI
- we have managed to publish the majority of SI courses on Open.Michigan but we need to do more outreach, integrate OER into teaching, and perhaps develop an agreement where faculty can add OER course development to their tenure dossier.

SPH
Office of Public Health Practice

- Matthew L. Boulton - Matthew said some interesting things about building ties between Med Students and SPH students. He’d like to see more Med Students getting training at SPH and thought OER was a good way to help with this.

Matt Simpson - a Med student, SPH student, and former dScribe interested in taking OER to the next level between SPH and UMMS.

SSW
Brian Perron - we have spoken with Brian a number of times and he is on sabbatical at the moment, but his interest in OpenEd and educating faculty within SSW about OER is exceptional.

Faculty Advisory Group
We talked about organizing a U-M faculty advisory group to lead Open Education policy on campus and make recommendations to the faculty senate. Where do we start? Steve Jackson said he would be a part of this.

Students for Free Culture
While this is only one particular student group (that does *not* have a chapter at U-M), it's a great one with national support and interest. We should gear up to get a chapter started at U-M this year (hand select students to start it).

Alumni
the increasingly large body of alumni should be involved with Open.Michigan. the question is "how?".

Look to Alumni Association's Lifelong Learning Initiative

North Quad
- This space offers us connections with the Department of Communications, the Language Resource Center, SI, Department of Screen Arts and Culture, Sweetland Writing Center and dynamic public spaces that are designed to be participatory. We have the opportunity to become embedded in the dailyness of life in this space.

- Contact: Jamie Lausch jlausch@umich.edu

U-M Staff
- We need to make sure we cultivate our connections with professional staff on campus, eg. Tom Bray at the DMC

IAPSS
- we have been in contact with Alejandro Delmar for a couple of years. we should maintain this connection.

- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru - Alejandro directed them towards us to start a pilot of dScribe and OERca.

URC
- we started a project with the University Research Corridor to help Environmental Health Scientists create open research, articles, and educational resources.

UCT
- OERca

- casebook for copyright

- dScribe

Regional Institutions
- MSU's Ethan Watrall at MATRIX

- Reconnect with Schoolcraft?

- Increase collaborations with WSU outside of URC