ISummit '08 - iCommons
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ISummit '08 - iCommons
Outline Timothy and Garin's Thought Dump
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[edit] I. Our Process: dScribe
[edit] Model
- What does it propose? What is it?
- The dScribe approach to OER publishing:
- The dScribe initiative is a holistic process that builds upon an existing student-faculty educational relationship to gather, vet, and publish materials on an OER site. dScribe is an opportunity to mobilize student activity in the teaching and learning environment and generate a powerful new participatory paradigm for higher education institutions worldwide.
- This educational project creates a framework for a cost-effective intellectual property review process and lays out a set of best practices so that other institutions can begin to make decisions about how to effectively publish learning material.
- The software tools that we’re developing provide institutions around the world with the tools that they need to begin the process of OER publishing. The software is open source, etc.
- Informed by:
- Supports:
- Supports Fair Use: open.michigan demonstrates an awareness of and respect for the right we have to use content for teaching, learning, discourse, commentary, etc.
- Supports Local Learning Communities: open.michigan demonstrates an awareness of and respect for the approaches and intentions of Faculty
[edit] Why do it?
- 1. Reaction: It builds upon existing OER publishing models.
- Practical: cost, scaling, etc.
- 2. Opportunity: Not just response, but an opportunity to build upon a unique educational relationship and mesh with other initiatives that promote a participatory culture.
- An intermingling of practical and ideological goals: helps to scale OER process, builds upon the educational relationship and other participatory initiatives.
- 3. Ideological: we have to look at where it comes from: dScribe is instructed by a new participatory culture and helps supports this infrastructure. This is where it scales.
- 4. Realize the benefits to the approach: students become leaders, take on new roles as educators. Empowering students to take on more responsibility.
- We’ve got a process through the dScribe model that is about scaling to other models.
[edit] Why is it unique
- Fair Use: teach people to stand up for the rights that they have.
- Our Thinking in general: create a process that others can learn from and use.
- This is an educational project that creates a framework and set of best practices so that other institutions can begin to make decisions about publishing content. It’s about teaching.
[edit] Where is this going?
- Open and Transparent process that can be used / implemented other places. Supported by the participants who also utilize the approach.
[edit] II. Connections
dScribe meshes with other initiatives that promote a participatory culture, such as…. dScribe flows from this and supports it.
[edit] Connecting to New Media Literacy
- Jenkins: New education environments: People use copyrighted content: this is how we learn and teach. Pushing the closed content world. We need to support new processes.
[edit] Connecting to Other Projects
- Best Practices for Fair Use in Documentary Film
- User Generated Video: Quoting material in…
- Notre Dame – pursuing the process of
- Toronto
- Medical School note-taking cooperatives.
- Organizing without Organizations.
- Participatory culture of anime; how does this connect to students wanting to do this for themselves, but also for the benefit of other students: is this just a side-effect? Web 2.0 effect and Network effect?
[edit] III. Questions
- The Library’s Role
- Deep Blue
- Technologies:
- Bluestream
- OER Search Engine
- Standards:
- XMP metadata
- Accessibility Issues
- Translations
- ADA
- Legal
- Licensing options; multiple
- Fair use jurisdiction
- Cultural Differences:
- existing educational paradigms
[edit] IV. Conclusion: Why we’re interested in the iSummit and the iCommons
- What we’re thinking here is that dScribe is a process and that we need the larger input of the Open Community to refine and perfect the model.
- We also want to help people get away from the idea of OER being “free” - getting away from the whole free speech vs. free beer discussion, to show a how in practice, OER is something different. (It may be in terms of ideology, but not practice.) If people want something they can get it. They will get it.
- What our model and initiative promotes, however, is that OER is a part of the new practice and new community of CC and Open. dScribe joins initiatives working to connecting communities to strengthen this new community.
