Dscribe Letter Template - First steps with faculty

Dear Professor ____

It was great to speak with you about making your [course/module name] part of the Open.Michigan Open Educational Resources (OER) collection. When we met, I mentioned that I would send along several resources which would provide more detail about OER and your participation in the dScribe process (see http://open.umich.edu/dScribe).

1) How to Create Open Content - I gave you a quick overview of OER and what openly licensed means. The Open.Michigan: Share page (http://open.umich.edu/share/) explains the steps involved in licensing your content as well as a list of sites where you can find open content (e.g. public domain or Creative Commons), which will serve as an alternative to the standard Google image search.

2) Permission Forms - We have our own permission forms for faculty to select which Creative Commons license they would like to attach to their work. Here is our online permission form: https://open.umich.edu/oerperm/U-M_Participants_OER_Permission-General.html. You can also indicate which materials from the course you'd like to publish at https://open.umich.edu/oerperm/U-M_dScribe_Faculty_Specs.html.

I will be working with you and the Open.Michigan team to make your materials available as OER. Once I have the license and materials from you, I'll get started. I may have some questions for you during the process, such as where a particular image came from, if a public domain replacement image is suitable, and final review of the edited OER materials prior to publication. On average, this takes 2 - 5 hours of your time total during the process.

I look forward to working with you this semester.

Sincerely, _________