Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned

We need faculty buy-in and license from the beginning of the process
prospective clearing (i.e. using open content from the start) is much more efficient and sustainable
open content created from the start by faculty may still have copyright, privacy, or endorsement concerns and require an audit before publication on Open.Michigan

we can teach the basics of dScribe in an hour an hour and a half
it's difficult to get most students to put in time beyond the dScribe sessions
it's helpful to have bi-weekly sessions to create a culture around open and an understanding of why open matters
the roles-based approach to dScribe may work in crowd-sourcing tasks, but it requires great mediation via software
you can carry out the dScribe process with a simple spreadsheet, PowerPoint template, and a basic method for sharing files (e.g. email, shared file directories)
some courses and modules are too content intensive to be completed by volunteers
most courses will be published 3 - 9 months after the course ends
students can carry out the dScribe process without much interaction with the faculty member
few volunteers will take the time to add keywords to individual content objects
many volunteers do not feel confident in approaching faculty about why they should share their materials

it's difficult to design software for a process that's still changing
since the clearing process may be different at each institution, software should be modular