Strategic Plan and Objectives

Strategic Plan and Objectives = Strategic Plan =

While the plan document is still in process, you can view its progress: strategic plan.

= High level details =

Mission
The mission of Open.Michigan is to enable faculty, students, staff at the University of Michigan to share their educational resources and research with the world.

Vision
Open.Michigan’s vision is to position U-M as a leader in sharing educational resources, dramatically expanding the University's global impact and influence and strengthening it as a point of reference for learning and teaching materials for educators and learners worldwide.

Core Values and Approach
Open.Michigan is a University of Michigan (U-M) initiative dedicated to increasing knowledge dissemination in the higher education community through encouraging a culture of sharing. There are two principles on which Open.Michigan is founded: 1) public universities have a responsibility to share the knowledge and resources they create; and 2) transparency is essential for the health and growth of educational institutions. Most of the activity in service of its mission is directly related to Open Educational Resource (OER) production and publishing in some form, but there is also an underlying effort to encourage sharing and foster a participatory learning environment.

Goal 1: The University of Michigan sustains a thriving culture of sharing knowledge.
To build and sustain a culture of sharing knowledge at the University of Michigan we need three things:


 * 1) a common understanding that U-M and its faculty and students share knowledge with the world -- this is a part of its mission;
 * 2) support for those who want to share in the form of guidance, resources, and expertise; and
 * 3) institutional and departmental policy incentives designed to make it easier to produce OER than to not.

Intermediate goals:


 * general awareness of U-M knowledge-sharing activities
 * U-M offers multiple communities of sharing
 * staff-supported guidance, resources, and expertise in sharing artifacts
 * institutional and departmental policies encouraging sharing
 * external feedback to those who share

Goal 2: The University of Michigan provides comprehensive public access to all of its scholarly output.
The knowledge artifacts produced through research, scholarship, and teaching are public goods, but only as an ideal. Because of constraints in law, expertise, and technical infrastructure, much of this scholarly output requires adjustment in order to be true public goods. A public good is non-rival, meaning that one individual's use of the artifact does not preclude another's use of that artifact. By publishing these artifacts in digital form on a public website, U-M can remove rivalrous barriers to use. Public goods are also non-excludable, meaning that one cannot exclude individuals or classes of people from using the good. This requires that the artifacts be free in cost, unrestricted by copyright or proprietary technical formats, and published in a usable, accessible, and adaptable way.

Intermediate goals:


 * all research articles and data, teaching and learning resources, and organizational documents are digitized and made available online
 * wherever possible U-M adopts the most permissive public licenses for all content it creates
 * artifacts digitized and published are in usable and adaptable, non-proprietary technical formats
 * whenever possible U-M published content is archived for long-term preservation
 * artifacts are produced to enable use and access by all types of the public

= Research =


 * http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Role_of_the_WMF
 * http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_Priorities