DScribe Process Refinement Session: 9/28/09

DScribe Process Refinement Session: 9/28/09

dScribe Process
CKR = Content Knowledge Required

CCKR = Creative Commons and Basic (C) Knowledge Required

AC = Advanced Copyright Knowledge Required (Paid position)

DSR = Design Skills Required

ILR = Info Literacy Required

OER Advocate = provides arguments/rationale for open

Scenarios for Different Points of Entry to our Services

 * Scenario #1 - Need to recruit one dScribe2 per department to perform most of these steps, rather than our group doing it.


 * Scenario #2 – someone who knows about OER approaches us (Dr. Carter).


 * Scenario #3 - Traditional dScribe1 recruiting, mentoring, and support.

When is content knowledge required, copyright expertise, editing expertise? Different steps require different qualifications.

Who is working on crowd sourcing for OER? Is anyone funding this? (Ask Hewlett for support?) Can you crowd source copyright analysis? Image replacement?

Ask Hewlett for support to create new open content (existing replacements often not good enough). Or have design school at U Ghana (Veronica and TRex) do this? (Already covered in Hewlett grant.)

Replace dScribe1/dScribe2 model with new roles:

 * Content dScribe
 * Copyright dScribe
 * Advanced Copyright dScribe
 * Design/Package/Publish dScribe
 * OER Advocate

Services we Provide

 * 1) Tell you what you need to do.
 * 2) Help you get there.
 * 3) Do it for you (traditional dScribe1 and dScribe 2)
 * 4) Push it out. (Is this an institutional, UM level service? Like Sitemaker or Deep Blue). Visibility and branding.
 * 5) Indemnity.

Goal: OER self-sufficiency, Open Culture (we check OERca occasionally to see who’s using it and what’s going on.)

Can we scale from supporting 50 faculty to 1000?

At what point can we switch to an audit process or filter? Need to check first 100 course, but after that…  We are available for exceptions, not to check every slide.

What is sustainable?

 * political campaign model
 * acorn
 * grass roots organizations
 * NGOs

Open Questions

 * 1) What is incentive structure in new model?
 * 2) Commission UG/KNUST design folks to create replacement images
 * 3) Funders for developing new model/tools
 * 4) Building this new model into the draft business plan