Tips for how to approach a conversation with faculty about OER and dScribe
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Tips for how to approach a conversation with faculty about OER and dScribe
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[edit] Introducing yourself
- OCW Movement - MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford, OCW Consortium
- Explanation of the U-M OER initiative and Open.Michigan
Explanation of dScribe process
[edit] Logistics
- -communication plan
- -licensing of the materials.
[edit] Why participate?
- Global Reasons
- - participatory learning
- - Open Learning - opportunities for educators and learners throughout the world
- Institutional
- -vision of the School of Information
- -Michigan is the best in this area
- -Encourage recruitment
- -Benefits to Alumni - staying up to date, etc.
- Individual
- -increase visibility of faculty and student work
- -an opportunity to be a part of something interesting and meaningful
- -ability to connect with students
- -ability to connect with other faculty and researchers within and outside U-M
- -they have a good course with great material
- -opportunity to receive assistance in developing better course materials
[edit] Questions
How much time?
- -2 - 3 hours over the course of the semester.
Computer Use?
- -perhaps. Can use the software tool or can also utilize email or face to face.
Give away? (Licensing) Materials aren't as important as your mentoring.
- -materials are "yours" - you retain copyright to the materials.
- -you have final say on how materials look, etc.
Who else is doing it here?
- -The Champions: President, Provosts, Deans, other faculty members.
Materials are unique. changing them might disrupt the integrity of the learning objective.
- -opportunity to recreate materials
- -can request permission
- -can work to recreate and if need be annotate.
Don't want to include materials.
- -It's up to you what is and isn't included.
- -first generation of the materials and will be improved.