2009 Vision session notes Day 1

Open.Michigan OER Team - 2009 Vision session notes Day 1

Goals for sessions

 * individual roles for next...
 * what is the community &amp; how we present ourselves
 * re-calibrate what we’re about
 * products, services, priorities, outputs
 * plan to engage campus in Open.Michigan/sustainability
 * SWOT analysis
 * incentive structure understanding
 * current status

Parking Lot

 * Decide open journal targets
 * Define Open Learning spectrum
 * Retrospective clearing
 * FAQ
 * Engage MERLOT
 * Board of Advisors
 * Eventual home (not medical school)
 * Commonalities &amp; distinctions between OA and OER
 * Ideologoical/education
 * Mobilize 1/3 faculty who have expressed desire to open content

Agenda
These items were time-limited to 30 minutes, so each section is not comprehensive.


 * status
 * SWOT
 * what is the community
 * metrics of success
 * budget and funding

Done

 * designed and implemented a viable OCW production system
 * built the Open.Michigan website
 * built an OER delivery platform
 * built the Open.Michigan wiki
 * held cross-department OER meetings
 * built OERca
 * creating OER training materials
 * crafted OER policies
 * collaborated on fair use
 * published and opened courses (31)
 * published or opened other educational resources
 * developed CEL survey
 * continued dScribe advocacy domestically and internationally
 * contributed to OER infrastructure in Ghana and South Africa
 * presented U-M at conferences
 * CTools surveys

Doing

 * on-going collaboration with ccLearn, MIT, OER Africa, SI, SSW, Medical School (internal, external)
 * seeking funding
 * communication and marketing
 * attending conferences, writing blog posts, giving talks, handing out t-shirts
 * assessment of OER / evaluation
 * teaching/outreaching one and all about openness and OER
 * learning/teaching ourselves about openness
 * publishing and opening courses/educational resources
 * product development
 * OERca
 * dScribe program
 * openness training materials
 * open policies
 * working on special projects

Add

 * research on open
 * contextualize materials
 * open learning
 * lecture capture
 * integrate OER use into teaching
 * case studies on use
 * focus on prospective open content creation
 * foster student awareness and activism
 * open reading club/seminar
 * contact 1/3 of faculty who say yes to sharing their content

Stop Doing

 * Our staff will stop making cold calls -&gt; transfer to students
 * Taking all projects without discussion
 * Stop forcing bad processes

Strengths

 * great group of smart, skilled, enthusiastic and committed individuals (gratuitous pat on the back)
 * our int'l engagement is collaborative not colonial
 * progressive, flexible, nimble, pragmatic, flat (vs. hierarchical)
 * we are a public, the? public university - we have a responsibility to the public

Weaknesses

 * too much reliance on Medical School (funding isn't sustainable beyond 2010)
 * some deans are anti-open (engineering?, LSA)
 * some things don't get done despite all the ideas and intentions - stretched thin with lack of accountability
 * difficulty drawing the line (saying "no")

Opportunities

 * work at state level (Obama's CC $), Michigan Virtual University
 * copyright reform (more open)
 * curation + discovery of content
 * student participation
 * huge alumni base - enlist them to create and build OER for the U? - broadening scope of academy
 * In recent CTools survey, 30% of faculty said that they would be willing to share materials.

Threats

 * the "open" anti-institutional sentiment scaring off funders and U-M managers ("openEd message co-opted by anti-institutional rants")
 * financial crisis leads to cuts that hit us
 * collapse of interest in using or creating open resources (by deans, provost, president, public)
 * lawsuits for copyright infringements, privacy
 * copyright reform (that gives more control to rights holders)

Who are we (the people in the room) working for?

 * faculty, students and staff at the U-M
 * dean of Medical School
 * global consumers of OER
 * "comunity, state, and beyond"

With whom we are already working?

 * Lynn Johnson (dentistry)
 * Jane Blumenthal
 * Emily Springfield
 * OER Africa
 * UCT
 * KNUST
 * U. Ghana
 * UWC
 * Chuck Severance
 * John King
 * Dan Atkins
 * 40 dScribes
 * 5 dScribe2s (4 of which now work for us)
 * lots of faculty
 * Molly Kleinman
 * Melissa Levine
 * Jim Ottaviani
 * Al Bertram
 * CTools team
 * MIT OCW
 * ccLearn
 * John Merlin Williams
 * Vlad Wielbut
 * IAPSS

With whom we'd like to work?

 * Student groups (students for Free culture)
 * Paul Courant
 * SACUA - faculty groups

Who is working against us?

 * Deans of some schools are anti-open

Strategies to engage community

 * make our content and resources more editable, contributable?, discoverable
 * spread the ideology, not necessarily the work ("The University of Michigan shares its work.") - build towards the bicentennial 2017

questions/thoughts

 * avoid tunnel vision (quantity not the only metric) - more important to ask "how is this used?" or "how has this changed the university?"
 * where is the tipping point or critical mass point?

metrics

 * of courses published
 * of open resources/websites/textbooks (MERLOT)
 * of non-UM courses/resources/websites we've influenced to become open
 * of people we've reached with our assistance for opening
 * of people trained in "open"
 * of open source projects/software at U-M
 * of resources "discovered"
 * of referatories seeing our content (Page Rank?)
 * of people who developed open projects outside of our office
 * document faculty committed to openness
 * of signatures on open education declaration (OER oath, pledge)
 * of signatures on open textbooks statement
 * $ contributed by funders
 * success stories
 * % of faculty demanding to open their course content
 * Being #1 at Vision/Being Awesome
 * of tools built to help facilitate "open"
 * documenting innovations in "open"
 * legal
 * policy
 * technical
 * process
 * of orgs that adopt our processes, tools, or instruments of practice
 * of orgs that use OERca
 * influence of other org's legal/policy decisions
 * of collabating institutions/organizations
 * of faculty and students publishing in open access journals
 * of deposits in institutional archive
 * of open data repositories
 * of outside participants in our "open" courses
 * of presentations/talks/seminars
 * of views on YouTube
 * of videos on YouTube
 * of videos or podcasts on iTunes
 * of public domain books scanned for Google Books project (Hathi Trust)
 * % of U-M students demanding OER or OCW (CTools survey)
 * of policies influenced at U-M (for open)
 * of resources peer-reviewed in places like MedEdPortal