Student Engagement Roles

Role: Advocate (OER and/or dScribe)
Advocates participate in occasional dScribe or OER outreach or training events, such as presenting during a dScribe training workshop, approaching faculty and students about participating in dScribe, etc.

Role: Events Organizer
Assists in planning events around openness, such as Students for Free Culture (http://freeculture.org/) meetings, Open Everything (http://openeverything.wik.is/)

Role: dScribe
dScribe, short for "digital and distributed scribes," is a participatory and collaborative model for creating open content. It brings together enrolled students, staff, faculty, and self-motivated learners to work together toward the common goal of creating content that is openly licensed and available to people throughout the world. It was first developed by students and faculty at the University of Michigan to leverage the interest and talent of students in working with faculty and staff to transform educational material into open educational resources (OER). The dScribe model encourages students, faculty, staff, and other interested individuals such as alumni and community members to get involved in not only creating open content, but also generating awareness about the benefits of creating and sharing educational content with a global learning community. For more information: https://open.umich.edu/dScribe Role: dScribe Student dScribes volunteer to collaborate with faculty and other students over the course of a semester to review and publish course materials; however, student dScribes also work to publish other content, raise awareness of open pedagogy, and advocate for a more transparent and open university. All dScribes attend a dScribe training / information workshop where they develop and understanding of the dScribe methodology and begin to apply it to the content they review or individuals they work with. While Open.Michigan team members provide guidance, training documents, and other tools to assist dScribes, dScribe work is largely self-directed among the collaborators. If participating as a dScribe for credit, students have various requirements to meet, including meeting with faculty members and the Open.Michigan team as well as demonstrating the ability to successfully clear, edit, and upload material by using the web-based content and decision management system we have developed for the process called, OERca. See https://open.umich.edu/dScribe for more details.

Role: Publishing Assistant
In 2007, the University of Michigan Medical School made a commitment to disseminate its full first- and second-year curriculum (M1/M2) to educators, physicians, clinicians, students, and self-learners throughout the world, free of charge. By enabling global access to our health science education materials (lectures and other course curricula), the University of Michigan Medical School seeks to improve health education and health care delivery worldwide. During the summers of 2008 and 2009, seventeen medical students and two SI students reviewed the curriculum for copyright, privacy, and endorsement concerns in preparation for publication as OER. The Open.Michigan team is working with the faculty at the Medical School to license their materials. After the material is licensed, our publishing team makes the necessary edits and publishes it to the Open.Michigan OER site: http://open.umich.edu/education

The Publishing Assistant will assist the Open.Michigan team with taking the medical resources that are in progress to the final step of publication. This will entail making necessary edits and additions to course material, incorporating faculty feedback into resources, adding new disclaimer and license text as well as citation key, inserting citation tags next to images and other content objects, and compiling a consolidated list of citations at end of each resource. The Publishing Assistant will be supervised by the M1/M2 Project Lead and the Open.Michigan OER Publications Manager.