ISummit '08 - iCommons

From openmichigan

Outline Timothy and Garin's Thought Dump

Contents 1 I. Our Process: dScribe 1.1 Model 1.2 Why do it? 1.3 Why is it unique 1.4 Where is this going? 2 II. Connections 2.1 Connecting to New Media Literacy 2.2 Connecting to Other Projects 3 III. Questions 4 IV. Conclusion: Why we’re interested in the iSummit and the iCommons

I. Our Process: dScribe

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

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.

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.

Where is this going?

• Open and Transparent process that can be used / implemented other places. Supported by the participants who also utilize the approach.

II. Connections

dScribe meshes with other initiatives that promote a participatory culture, such as…. dScribe flows from this and supports it.

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.

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?

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

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.