2009 Vision session notes Day 1
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Open.Michigan OER Team - 2009 Vision session notes Day 1
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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
- of courses published
- of open resources/websites/textbooks (MERLOT)
- of non-UM courses/resources/websites we've influenced to become open
- of people we've reached with our assistance for opening
- of people trained in "open"
- of open source projects/software at U-M
- of resources "discovered"
- of referatories seeing our content (Page Rank?)
- of people who developed open projects outside of our office
- document faculty committed to openness
- of signatures on open education declaration (OER oath, pledge)
- 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
- of tools built to help facilitate "open"
- documenting innovations in "open"
- legal
- policy
- technical
- process
- of orgs that adopt our processes, tools, or instruments of practice
- of orgs that use OERca
- influence of other org's legal/policy decisions
- of collabating institutions/organizations
- of faculty and students publishing in open access journals
- of deposits in institutional archive
- of open data repositories
- of outside participants in our "open" courses
- of presentations/talks/seminars
- of views on YouTube
- of videos on YouTube
- of videos or podcasts on iTunes
- of public domain books scanned for Google Books project (Hathi Trust)
- % of U-M students demanding OER or OCW (CTools survey)
- of policies influenced at U-M (for open)
- of resources peer-reviewed in places like MedEdPortal
