Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned
OER
- 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
dScribe
- 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
software
- 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
