DScribe-faculty-UM

OER Scenarios: dScribe-faculty at U-M

First Meeting
Professor Putnam is an approachable guy--very at ease with his students. This is why Andrea liked him so much and thought he’d be a good teacher to work with on the dScribes project. It didn’t take too much convincing for Putnam to visualize the goals of dScribes, although he had some difficulty understanding the legalese of the permission form. Andrea has been a good student for him and he had no reservations about working with her over the semester while she was taking his POLSCI 353 course.

Andrea met with Putnam after the first class and briefly went over the permission form and the project timeline. Professor Putnam asked that Andrea keep him informed about how the work was coming, and to “not be afraid to ask questions.” Andrea took this statement fairly liberally and made it a point to talk with Putnam after most class sessions to go over that day’s lecture materials.

Weekly Discussions
Andrea is looking forward to sitting down with Professor Putnam at the end of the semester to review the course materials. She has been bugging him after class most weeks asking about missing citations and cool replacements she’s found. It’s been interesting to see that as the semester has gone on, Putnam has actually added citations and even started using the Flickr Creative Commons search that Andrea showed him. He told her that he doesn’t mind getting content from there to help her out as long as it’s good quality and doesn’t take 30 extra steps.

Final Review
When Andrea finally schedules a time to meet with Professor Putnam to review the course materials, he cancels the appointment because of an illness. This leaves Andrea stranded as she has almost no time to meet again before the winter break starts. Andrea just needs Putnam’s final okay on 4 sets of lecture slides where she has corrected some typos and replaced a few copyrighted images. If Putnam isn’t better in the next two days, Andrea is afraid she’ll never get his course published.

Goal 1: Ensure that legalese on permission form does not short change him in the long run

 * Intention: verify contents of permission form before signing it
 * Action: meet with Andrea, go over form, comprehend explanation and reason for permission form and all that it entails.
 * Execution:
 * 1) Meet after first class
 * 2) Go over permission form
 * 3) Go over project timeline
 * System state:
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 3) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * Outcome: the system does not facilitate this goal

Goal 2: Be in "the loop" about the process of prepping his materials

 * Intention: understand the prepping process by watching it unfold and also offer help when possible
 * Action: Ask Andrea to keep him informed and indicated he is open to questions as and when they arise
 * Execution:
 * 1) Meet after first class with dscribe
 * 2) Express willingness to be engaged in the project
 * 3) Go over the day's lecture
 * 4) Discuss replacements, citations or general questions Andrea has
 * System state (i.e. the following supported actions will change the system state unless otherwise indicated):
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 3) Uploading lectures / noting missing citations / identifying items of concern
 * 4) Reviewing replacements / missing citations and tracking answers to dscribe questions
 * Outcome: the system supports this goal

Goal 3: Help out as much (if it's not time consuming) with the process of prepping his materials

 * Intention: use appropriate / properly cited materials in course creation
 * Action: Find and use "open" images and use citations where needed in slides and lecture notes
 * Execution:
 * 1) Add citations to lecture notes and slides as they are being created
 * 2) Use Flickr Creative common search to find needed images
 * System state:
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * Outcome: the system does not facilitate this process.

Goal 1: Get Prof. Putman to make his classes available through the OER project

 * Intention: prepare POLSCI 353 course for inclusion in UM's OER project
 * Action: speak with prof. Putman to get permission to put up his course
 * Execution:
 * 1) Meet with prof. Putman
 * 2) Explain OER project and dscribe role
 * System state:
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * Outcome: the system does not facilitate this process (if it does, only as an visual aid to describe the process).

Goal 2: Keep Prof. Putman informed about her progress prepping his materials

 * Intention: honor Putman's request and also use it as an opportunity to ask questions
 * Action: hold weekly discussions with Putman after class
 * Execution:
 * 1) Make time after class to meet instructor
 * 2) Go over the day's lecture
 * 3) Discuss replacements, citations or general questions
 * System state (i.e. the following supported actions will change the system state unless otherwise indicated):
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) Uploading lectures / noting missing citations / identifying items of concern
 * 3) Reviewing replacements / missing citations and tracking answers to dscribe questions
 * Outcome: the system supports this goal

Goal 3: Get feedback from Prof. Putman on missing citations and replacements

 * Intention: use information from Putman to reduce search costs and use appropriate replacement images
 * Action: hold weekly discussions with Putman after class
 * Execution:
 * 1) Make time after class to meet instructor
 * 2) Discuss replacements, citations or general questions
 * System state (i.e. the following supported actions will change the system state unless otherwise indicated):
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) Reviewing replacements / missing citations and tracking answers to dscribe questions
 * Outcome: the system supports this goal (possible GULF OF EXECUTION)

Goal 4: Educate Prof. Putman to be OER conscious when creating course content

 * Intention: show Putman alternative sources for images that are appropriate for OER materials
 * Action: show Putman Flickr Creative Commons image search
 * Execution:
 * 1) Meet with instructor
 * 2) Demo Flickr CC search for Putman
 * System state:
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * Outcome: the system does not facilitate this goal

Goal 5: Hold a final review session with Prof. Putman

 * Intention: go over all modifications made to the course with Putman to ensure he is happy with it all
 * Action: meet with Putman to go over changes
 * Execution:
 * 1) Schedule a face to face meeting to go over remaining unapproved modifications
 * 2) Go over materials that have been modified and need approval
 * System state (i.e. the following supported actions will change the system state unless otherwise indicated):
 * 1) System not involved (state remains unchanged)
 * 2) Go through ASKFORMS or CO's and make necessary changes
 * Outcome: the system does not support this goal (possible GULF OF EXECUTION)