2009 Vision session notes Day 1

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Open.Michigan OER Team - 2009 Vision session notes Day 1

Contents

Goals for sessions

  • individual roles for next...
  • what is the community & how we present ourselves
  • re-calibrate what we’re about
    • products, services, priorities, outputs
  • plan to engage campus in Open.Michigan/sustainability
  • SWOT analysis
  • incentive structure understanding
  • current status

Parking Lot

  • Decide open journal targets
  • Define Open Learning spectrum
  • Retrospective clearing
  • FAQ
  • Engage MERLOT
  • Board of Advisors
  • Eventual home (not medical school)
  • Commonalities & distinctions between OA and OER
  • Ideologoical/education
  • Mobilize 1/3 faculty who have expressed desire to open content

Agenda

These items were time-limited to 30 minutes, so each section is not comprehensive.

  • status
  • SWOT
  • what is the community
  • metrics of success
  • budget and funding

STATUS

Done

  • designed and implemented a viable OCW production system
  • built the Open.Michigan website
  • built an OER delivery platform
  • built the Open.Michigan wiki
  • held cross-department OER meetings
  • built OERca
  • creating OER training materials
  • crafted OER policies
  • collaborated on fair use
  • published and opened courses (31)
  • published or opened other educational resources
  • developed CEL survey
  • continued dScribe advocacy domestically and internationally
  • contributed to OER infrastructure in Ghana and South Africa
  • presented U-M at conferences
  • CTools surveys

Doing

  • on-going collaboration with ccLearn, MIT, OER Africa, SI, SSW, Medical School (internal, external)
  • seeking funding
  • communication and marketing
    • attending conferences, writing blog posts, giving talks, handing out t-shirts
  • assessment of OER / evaluation
  • teaching/outreaching one and all about openness and OER
  • learning/teaching ourselves about openness
  • publishing and opening courses/educational resources
  • product development
    • OERca
    • dScribe program
    • openness training materials
    • open policies
  • working on special projects

Add

  • research on open
  • contextualize materials
  • open learning
  • lecture capture
  • integrate OER use into teaching
  • case studies on use
  • focus on prospective open content creation
  • foster student awareness and activism
  • open reading club/seminar
  • contact 1/3 of faculty who say yes to sharing their content

Stop Doing

  • Our staff will stop making cold calls -> transfer to students
  • Taking all projects without discussion
  • Stop forcing bad processes

SWOT

Strengths

  • great group of smart, skilled, enthusiastic and committed individuals (gratuitous pat on the back)
  • our int'l engagement is collaborative not colonial
  • progressive, flexible, nimble, pragmatic, flat (vs. hierarchical)
  • we are a public, the? public university - we have a responsibility to the public

Weaknesses

  • too much reliance on Medical School (funding isn't sustainable beyond 2010)
  • some deans are anti-open (engineering?, LSA)
  • some things don't get done despite all the ideas and intentions - stretched thin with lack of accountability
  • difficulty drawing the line (saying "no")

Opportunities

  • work at state level (Obama's CC $), Michigan Virtual University
  • copyright reform (more open)
  • curation + discovery of content
  • student participation
  • huge alumni base - enlist them to create and build OER for the U? - broadening scope of academy
  • In recent CTools survey, 30% of faculty said that they would be willing to share materials.

Threats

  • the "open" anti-institutional sentiment scaring off funders and U-M managers ("openEd message co-opted by anti-institutional rants")
  • financial crisis leads to cuts that hit us
  • collapse of interest in using or creating open resources (by deans, provost, president, public)
  • lawsuits for copyright infringements, privacy
  • copyright reform (that gives more control to rights holders)

WHAT IS COMMUNITY

Who are we (the people in the room) working for?

  • faculty, students and staff at the U-M
  • dean of Medical School
  • global consumers of OER
  • "comunity, state, and beyond"
With whom we are already working?
  • Lynn Johnson (dentistry)
  • Jane Blumenthal
  • Emily Springfield
  • OER Africa
  • UCT
  • KNUST
  • U. Ghana
  • UWC
  • Chuck Severance
  • John King
  • Dan Atkins
  • 40 dScribes
  • 5 dScribe2s (4 of which now work for us)
  • lots of faculty
  • Molly Kleinman
  • Melissa Levine
  • Jim Ottaviani
  • Al Bertram
  • CTools team
  • MIT OCW
  • ccLearn
  • John Merlin Williams
  • Vlad Wielbut
  • IAPSS
With whom we'd like to work?
  • Student groups (students for Free culture)
  • Paul Courant
  • SACUA - faculty groups
Who is working against us?
  • Deans of some schools are anti-open
Strategies to engage community
  • make our content and resources more editable, contributable?, discoverable
  • spread the ideology, not necessarily the work ("The University of Michigan shares its work.") - build towards the bicentennial 2017

METRICS OF SUCCESS

questions/thoughts

  • avoid tunnel vision (quantity not the only metric) - more important to ask "how is this used?" or "how has this changed the university?"
  • where is the tipping point or critical mass point?

metrics

    1. of courses published
    2. of open resources/websites/textbooks (MERLOT)
    3. of non-UM courses/resources/websites we've influenced to become open
    4. of people we've reached with our assistance for opening
      1. of people trained in "open"
    1. of open source projects/software at U-M
    2. of resources "discovered"
      1. of referatories seeing our content (Page Rank?)
    1. of people who developed open projects outside of our office
  • document faculty committed to openness
      1. of signatures on open education declaration (OER oath, pledge)
      2. of signatures on open textbooks statement
  • $ contributed by funders
  • success stories
  •  % of faculty demanding to open their course content
  • Being #1 at Vision/Being Awesome
    1. of tools built to help facilitate "open"
  • documenting innovations in "open"
    • legal
    • policy
    • technical
    • process
    1. of orgs that adopt our processes, tools, or instruments of practice
    2. of orgs that use OERca
  • influence of other org's legal/policy decisions
    1. of collabating institutions/organizations
    2. of faculty and students publishing in open access journals
    3. of deposits in institutional archive
    4. of open data repositories
    5. of outside participants in our "open" courses
    6. of presentations/talks/seminars
    7. of views on YouTube
    8. of videos on YouTube
    9. of videos or podcasts on iTunes
    10. of public domain books scanned for Google Books project (Hathi Trust)
  •  % of U-M students demanding OER or OCW (CTools survey)
    1. of policies influenced at U-M (for open)
    2. of resources peer-reviewed in places like MedEdPortal
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