Creating a Global Campus: Open Educational Resources Presenter: Kathleen Ludewig (Hope ‘06) Presented to: Hope College Computer Science Colloquium February 26, 2009 Copyright 2009 The University of Michigan. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit.
What is OER Why OER Creation Distribution Collaboration
What are the main features of OERs? “...educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.” the content (courses & learning assets) the delivery (CMS) the use and reuse (CC licensing)
The first in the field: MIT OpenCourseWare Source:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License A Huge Array Of OERs Exist Today Across Different Populations Of Learners K-12Higher EducationLife-Long Learning Courses Lesson plans Teacher training Video lectures Courseware Podcasts Journals Books Images Applications Games Slide from Presentation CC BY William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Presentation at University of Michigan, October 23, 2008
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License OERs Are Available Across The World Slide from Presentation CC BY William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Presentation at University of Michigan, October 23, 2008
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Goals of OER Equalize access to knowledge Impact teaching and learning Make these materials useful in developing countries Global shortage of healthcare workers Learn from their use and development outside the U.S. Sources: CC BY William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Presentation at University of Michigan, October 23, 2008 CC BY-SA OER Africa,
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Cost Access to Faculty Scale Refresh Rate How it’s being done, elsewhere Traditional OCW publication model Staff Centric Challenges
how else can we do this?
goals: scalable sustainable participatory approach: automate and simplify a complex process leverage capacity of institutional technologies and talents dScribe publishing model
digital & distributed Scribes motivated students who: organize, clear, tag course materials are familiar with technology and software learn about intellectual property & copyright engage with content in new ways “dScribes”
dScribe Publishin g Process roles dScribe2 dScribe instructor faculty transfers course material to dScribe dScribe attends training course led by dScribe2 dScribe identifies & documents potential IP issues Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michi gan OER team reviews & clears IP issues clear IP BY: Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer characters by Ryan Junell dScribe makes necessary edits to course material Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michi gan faculty reviews material: publish to U-M OER site Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michi gan publish to OER site faculty & dScribe2 connect: license material as OER faculty & dScribe2 recruit dScribe
benefits to students: master course content learn about copyright and copyleft establish unique connection w/ faculty potential to get course credit collaborate w/ other dedicated classmates make resources available to underserved dScribe publication model
benefits to faculty: students in course know best! establishing unique connection w/ students quality assurance of materials obtain user feedback on content > improve content dScribe publication model
How can we use technology and historical data to streamline the process of determining copyright status? Computer Science Challenge 1
Developing software, Presentation at University of Michigan Source:
Modeling workflow Source:
What action would you recommend for this object & why? Retain: Copyright Analysis –This is a basic graph. Data is not copyrightable. This is a basic representation of data containing no creative expression. If you and I both had this data, we could generate the same graph easily.
What action would you recommend for this object & why? Retain: Public Domain Federal government documents are in the public domain.
Ideas for improvement Predict action based on: Content type Historical data
How can we crowdsource the metadata/tagging of objects? Computer Science Challenge 2
Current
Future Possibility?
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How can we make our materials accessible in low-bandwidth environments? Computer Science Challenge 3
Facts GhanaSouth Africa Internet Users650,000 (2007)5.1 million (2005) Internet Hosts24,018 (2008)1.297 million (2008) Cell Phone Users7.604 million (2007)42.3 million (2007) Source: CIA World Factbook,
Source: International Development Research Centre,
Where: Telecenters Mobile phones Traveling library Freedom Toaster How/Mediums Online Offline Hard Copy Distribution: Meeting people where they are
How can we build a federated search that includes other institutions’ OER repositories? Computer Science Challenge 4
Search what? Search where? Within an institution and its content hierarchies Across institutions with high bandwidth connections Across institutions with poor connections Search on? Metadata Automatically generated Manually added Full text Federated Search
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Global Collaboration Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology University of Ghana South Africa University of the Western Cape University of Cape Town
Which software platform(s) do we use for remote collaboration and co-authoring of materials? Computer Science Challenge 5:
Teleconferencing Authoring Tools Wikis CMS Recommendations from audience? Remote collaboration
Questions?
We were made by Ryan Junell Contributing Authors: Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Timothy Vollmer, Kathleen Ludewig