Distribution Flow and Model for OER

Distributing and Archiving Content In addition to publishing our OER courses on the 'http://open.umich.edu/education', we also archive, or push, our content to other collections and repositories. See also our Recommended Practices for Packaging and Distributing OER - http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/guides/distrib-guidelines/2011

Process Flow Chart
Download [[Media:Open.Michigan_OER_Distribution_Flow_Chart.graffle.zip|an editable version (in Omnigraffle)]] or handouts of the chart below. You may also [[Media:AHON_OER_Distribution_Flow_Chart_v3-May2013.graffle.zip| download the editable version of a similar graphic for the African Health OER Network]].



Deep Blue

 * URL: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/55277
 * What to put there: Our published OER courses from http://open.umich.edu/education
 * Hosting Content: Yes
 * Stats: No?
 * How: Once a semester we send a batch deposit to Jim O at University Library. The steps you perform to do this are as follows:


 * 1) Create a zipfile containing the content for each course. Use the "download this course" link, located on the right-hand side of each course landing page, to do this.
 * 2) Create a spreadsheet that contains all the metadata fields for each course. This includes the zip file name, course title, author, license, keywords, descriptions and more.
 * 3) Email Jim O to be added to the Deep Blue MBox folder. Here you can upload the zipfiles.
 * 4) Notify Jim O at University Library that the course zip files are available on MBox. Save the Googledocs spreadsheet as an Excel file and send it to him. Jim will perform the following steps:
 * 5) Look up the metadata in spreadsheet associated with each zip file.
 * 6) Fill in the DeepBlue metadata fields accordingly.
 * 7) Upload the zip file as the main file
 * 8) Extract the zip file and upload the following as additional files: everything in the $zipfilename/$zipfilename/[lectures-1|reading-1|syllabus-1|etc] (for example, the contents of: si615-winter2008/615-winter2008/reading-1/). Continue this for each course sub-directory. However, ignore all of the other files, eg: the .html files in $zipfilename/$zipfilename/
 * 9) Jim will notify us when the courses are available for us to preview in DeepBlue.
 * 10) Jim will also request that we sign a batch-deposit agreement for Deep Blue: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/about/deepbluebatchagreement.html

U-M Bentley Web Archive

 * URL: http://webarchives.cdlib.org/sw1qf8k857/https://open.umich.edu/
 * What to put there: HTML presentation of open.umich.edu site; excludes files/materials, blog, wiki
 * How: Done by Bentley staff using a web crawler
 * Hosting Content: Yes, HTML and images only
 * Stats: No?

OpenTapestry (replaced OER Glue, Folksemantic, OCW Finder, OER Recommender)

 * URL: http://www.opentapestry.com/tapestries/open-michigan
 * What to put there: Our OER courses and resources.
 * How: The user "Spinner" on OpenTapestry harvests our content using the RSS feed at http://open.umich.edu/education/feed
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: No

OER Commons

 * URL: http://www.oercommons.org/browse/collection/open-michigan
 * What to put there: Our OER courses and resources.
 * How: Our RSS feed (http://open.umich.edu/education/feed) pushes content here, plus there's some manual work by spreadsheet
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: Yes (open.michigan@umich.edu Google Analytics account has view privileges for OER Commons analytics)
 * Feed: http://www.oercommons.org/browse/collection/open-michigan?feed=yes

OpenCourseware Consortium (OCW)

 * URL: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/browsesource/browse/source/81
 * What to put there: Our OER courses.
 * How: Custom RSS feed at http://open.umich.edu/ocwfeed
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: No

GLOBE (Global Learning Objects Brokering Exchange)

 * URL: http://www.globe-info.org/
 * What to put there: Our OER courses and resources.
 * How: Pushed from OER Commons
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: No

Learning Registry (In progress)

 * URL: http://www.learningregistry.org/
 * What to put there: Our OER courses and resources.
 * How: OERbit plugin, in progress.
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: TBD

MyEducationPath

 * URL: http://myeducationpath.com/courses/vendor_40/Open.Michigan+Initiative%2C+University+of+Michigan.htm
 * What to put there: Our OER courses only
 * How: Their import requires. Custom XML format. Manually put first batch if records there.
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: TBD

MERLOT.org

 * URL: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMember.htm?id=615633
 * What to put there: Our OER courses and resources.
 * How: Manually added courses
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: TBD

Internet Archive (Archive.Org)

 * URL: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%28open.michigan%40umich.edu%29&amp;sort=-downloads
 * What to put there: Our OER course Audio files (MP3's), Video Files (Flash, MP4, MOV), PDFs
 * How: For textbooks, look through to make sure no gaps in page numbers; even page number on the right, odd numbers must be on the left. Log in to our account on Archive.Org (account/pwd information is in CTools -&gt; EnablingTech -&gt; wiki). Upload files. See Publishing Video and Audio
 * Hosting Content: Yes
 * Stats: Number of downloads per material

Espresso Book Machine

 * URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo/astore.html
 * What to put there: Textbooks over 100 pages (PDF)
 * How:


 * The second page of all the books should be blank since it's the back of the front cover.
 * All books should have an even number of pages and a back cover. If there is no back cover, insert 2 - 3 blank pages to get to even number.
 * Look through to make sure no jumps in page numbers
 * When viewing on screen with 2 pages side-by-side, odd page numbers should on the left with the page number on the bottom or top right of page; even page numbers should be on the right with the page number on the bottom or top left of page;
 * When printed, even page numbers should be on the left with the page number on the bottom or top left of page; odd numbers should on the right with the page number on the bottom or top right of page.
 * When done, email DOC and PDF to T Geitgey.


 * Hosting Content: Yes?
 * Stats: Maybe?

Slideshare.net

 * URL: http://www.slideshare.net/openmichigan
 * What to put there: PPT, PDF
 * How: Log in to our openmichigan account on Slideshare
 * Hosting Content: Yes
 * Stats: Yes
 * Feed: http://slideshare.net/rss/user/openmichigan

Blip.TV

 * URL: http://openmichigan.blip.tv
 * What to put there: Our OER course Video files (including .WMV, .MOV, .FLV, AVI). Content posted here is also pushed to our open.michigan YouTube channel.
 * How: Log in to our account on Blip.TV (account/pwd information is in CTools -&gt; EnablingTech -&gt; wiki). Upload files. See Publishing Video and Audio
 * Hosting Content: Yes
 * Stats: Yes

iTunes U

 * What to put there: Our courses with audio and video
 * How: Log in to our iTunes U account
 * Hosting Content: Yes
 * Stats: Yes

YouTube

 * URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/openmichigan
 * What to put there: Our OER Video files (including .WMV, .MOV, .FLV, AVI).
 * How: Pushed from blip.tv. See Publishing Video and Audio
 * Hosting Content: Yes
 * Stats: Yes, integrated in Google Analytics
 * Feed: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/openmichigan/uploads?alt=rss&amp;v=2&amp;orderby=published&amp;client=ytapi-youtube-profile

Roku

 * URL: http://www.roku.com/
 * What to put there: Our OER course Video files
 * How: Pushed from blip.tv. See Publishing Video and Audio
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: Maybe? Integrated into Blip.tv

Boxee

 * URL: http://www.boxee.tv/
 * What to put there: Our OER course Video files
 * How: Pushed from blip.tv. See Publishing Video and Audio
 * Hosting Content: No
 * Stats: Maybe? Integrated into Blip.tv

eGranary (In Progress)

 * URL: http://www.widernet.org/egranary/
 * What to put there: African Health OER Network Resources
 * How: Offline copy; in progress
 * Hosting Content: Yes
 * Stats: Maybe? Kathleen to look into

African Health OER Network Sampler Offline Collection (USB)

 * URL: N/A

Others
There are several other websites developed by other organizations that use a subset of our content. Our collections and presences on those sites aren't maintained by Open.Michigan but by the coordinators of other sites. These include, but are not limited to:


 * http://top5onlinecolleges.org/college-student-resources/
 * http://academicearth.org/
 * http://freevideolectures.com/
 * http://www.onlinecourses.com/