1. dScribe student-centric open educational resource (OER) publishing system at the University of Michigan SI 521 Jan 29, 2009 Kathleen Ludewig

2. the end current landscape publishing framework where we are now the beginning

3. Mark Shandro - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshandro/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en Begin at the end.

5. 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)

6. faculty utilizing openly licensed educational media institutions supporting open access journals and textbooks developers building software tools on open source platforms keep door open to new modes of learning How do we get there?

7. the end current landscape publishing framework where we are now the beginning

8. MIT OpenCourseWare

12. Recent Developments

15. the end current landscape publishing framework where we are now the beginning

16. Cost Access to Faculty Scale Refresh Rate How it’s being done, elsewhere Traditional OCW publication model Staff Centric Challenges

17. how else can we do this? (JISC paper from last week)

18. goals: scalable sustainable participatory approach: automate and simplify a complex process leverage capacity of institutional technologies and talents dScribe publishing model

19. 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”

20. 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

21. dScribe cast of characters dScribeFacultydScribe2

22. license material That’s easy!

23. Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for this course I’ll do it! select a dScribe

24. copyright open resources dScribe training course fun! decision trees

25. transfer material Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michigan

26. Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michigan Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michig an vet material OERca: Content & Decision Management Software

27. Content Processing Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michig an review material Where does this image come from? OERca: Content & Decision Management Software

28. Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michigan edit material

29. final review Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michigan Looks good!

30. publication open.michiga n Class #1 Agenda: find dScribe for open.michig an

31. 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

32. 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

33. Open.Michigan publication framework How will Michigan be different? process (dScribes, fair use, open search) multiple file formats international collaboration web 2.0/3.0 outcomes, curriculum, career

34. the end current landscape publishing framework where we are now the beginning

35. tvol - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteenmilesofstring/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Using dScribes

36. Hybrid model Staff Full time Part time Volunteers Funding Institutional Departmental Foundation

37. Developing software

38. Modeling workflow

39. Demonstration - OERca and CasebookOERcaook ExaExample content objects

40. Publishing content

41. Sharing our work

42. the end current landscape publishing framework where we are now the beginning

43. How can we improve this process? Intellectual Property concerns are an obstacle a mess to navigate a mess to legislate a mess to litigate

44. U-M team members OCW Consortium ccLearn & Creative Commons U-M Copyright Office funders (Hewlett Foundation) Hope lies in collaborators and supporters

45. Action items! Faculty, Students can do two things early on: 1. search for and use more open content 2. cite the work on which you build Staff, Students can help faculty / others: 1. promote open search tools and copyright education 2. remind all that academic work should be of publishable quality == attribution

46. Where do you begin? You can continue to help by: learning the dScribe process and helping faculty apply it educating yourself about copyright and alternative licensing use, create, and support open source software become an advocate for Open.Michigan

47. Colin Rhinesmith - http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinrhinesmith/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

48. open.michigan@umich.edu http://open.umich.edu

49. We were made by Ryan Junell Other assets by Jon Phillips, Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Timothy Vollmer, Kathleen Ludewig