ISummit '08 - iCommons

ISummit '08 - iCommons Outline Timothy and Garin's Thought Dump

Model

 * What does it propose? What is it?


 * The dScribe approach to OER publishing:
 * The dScribe initiative is a holistic process that builds upon an existing student-faculty educational relationship to gather, vet, and publish materials on an OER site. dScribe is an opportunity to mobilize student activity in the teaching and learning environment and generate a powerful new participatory paradigm for higher education institutions worldwide.
 * This educational project creates a framework for a cost-effective intellectual property review process and lays out a set of best practices so that other institutions can begin to make decisions about how to effectively publish learning material.
 * The software tools that we’re developing provide institutions around the world with the tools that they need to begin the process of OER publishing. The software is open source, etc.


 * Informed by:


 * Supports:
 * Supports Fair Use: open.michigan demonstrates an awareness of and respect for the right we have to use content for teaching, learning, discourse, commentary, etc.
 * Supports Local Learning Communities: open.michigan demonstrates an awareness of and respect for the approaches and intentions of Faculty

Why do it?

 * 1. Reaction: It builds upon existing OER publishing models.
 * Practical: cost, scaling, etc.


 * 2. Opportunity: Not just response, but an opportunity to build upon a unique educational relationship and mesh with other initiatives that promote a participatory culture.
 * An intermingling of practical and ideological goals: helps to scale OER process, builds upon the educational relationship and other participatory initiatives.


 * 3. Ideological: we have to look at where it comes from: dScribe is instructed by a new participatory culture and helps supports this infrastructure. This is where it scales.


 * 4. Realize the benefits to the approach: students become leaders, take on new roles as educators. Empowering students to take on more responsibility.
 * We’ve got a process through the dScribe model that is about scaling to other models.

Why is it unique

 * Fair Use: teach people to stand up for the rights that they have.


 * Our Thinking in general: create a process that others can learn from and use.


 * This is an educational project that creates a framework and set of best practices so that other institutions can begin to make decisions about publishing content. It’s about teaching.

Where is this going?

 * Open and Transparent process that can be used / implemented other places. Supported by the participants who also utilize the approach.

II. Connections
dScribe meshes with other initiatives that promote a participatory culture, such as…. dScribe flows from this and supports it.

Connecting to New Media Literacy

 * Jenkins: New education environments: People use copyrighted content: this is how we learn and teach. Pushing the closed content world. We need to support new processes.

Connecting to Other Projects

 * Best Practices for Fair Use in Documentary Film
 * User Generated Video: Quoting material in…
 * Notre Dame – pursuing the process of
 * Toronto
 * Medical School note-taking cooperatives.
 * Organizing without Organizations.
 * Participatory culture of anime; how does this connect to students wanting to do this for themselves, but also for the benefit of other students: is this just a side-effect? Web 2.0 effect and Network effect?

III. Questions

 * The Library’s Role
 * Deep Blue
 * Technologies:
 * Bluestream
 * OER Search Engine
 * Standards:
 * XMP metadata
 * Accessibility Issues
 * Translations
 * ADA
 * Legal
 * Licensing options; multiple
 * Fair use jurisdiction
 * Cultural Differences:
 * existing educational paradigms

IV. Conclusion: Why we’re interested in the iSummit and the iCommons

 * What we’re thinking here is that dScribe is a process and that we need the larger input of the Open Community to refine and perfect the model.
 * We also want to help people get away from the idea of OER being “free” - getting away from the whole free speech vs. free beer discussion, to show a how in practice, OER is something different. (It may be in terms of ideology, but not practice.) If people want something they can get it. They will get it.
 * What our model and initiative promotes, however, is that OER is a part of the new practice and new community of CC and Open. dScribe joins initiatives working to connecting communities to strengthen this new community.