Open Education summary

Open Education summary Open.Michigan has a vision of a next generation learning environment: an environment that fosters collaboration around curricula, course materials, and content; that generates connections between disciplines, teachers, and learners; and inspires use of educational materials in a more personalized and effective way.

Envision an environment beyond a collection of courses. This is a space where the interplay and visualization of curricular paths, learning modules, and discrete pieces of educational content expand a user's ability to comprehend material, adapt it to their individual needs, and contribute it back to the global community.

Current efforts focus on developing a repository of course materials and identifying discrete educational content objects. Future work will attempt to analyze the connections between curricula, courses, and content to develop and display more comprehensive understandings of our learning environment.

Our Michigan OCW site built on eduCommons will serve as our initial repository for course content. This educational repository will grow as we continue our work to make Open.Michigan's vision a reality.