A presentation to the San Jose State University Library faculty and staff about the Open.Michigan initiative and how it ties into supporting access to low/no cost resources in the classroom and focuses on participation in education.
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1. Open…
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Source
Access
Data
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San Jose State University Library Licenses
Emily Puckett Rodgers
Open.Michigan
Research
April 9, 2012 Education
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2. Popcorn.js interactive video Mahara open learning management system
OpenStax College free open source textbooks P2PU peer learning with
challenges codeacademy peer learning Saylor Foundation open
courseware WikiEducator free online learning training and pedagogy DS106
free online writing Open Knowledge Foundation promoting open practices
African Health OER Network heath sciences collaboration Universia latin
american network of consortiaOpen High School of Utah online high
school created through OER Mozilla Foundation supporting open source
projects Sakai open source LMS
(Flickr)
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3. Connected college students
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Internet user Broadband user Wireless (laptop or cell
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All adults Non-students, 18-24 Undergrads Grad Students Community College
Source: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project 2010 tracking surveys. All include landline and cell phone interviews. N for all adults=9,769; n for 18-
24 year old non-students=717; n for four-year undergrads=246, n for grad students=112, n for community college students=164.
4. Learnin
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5. The mission of the University of Michigan is
to
serve the people of Michigan and the world
through preeminence in
creating, communicating, preserving and applying
knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing
leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and
6. Our Mission
Open.Michigan enables University of Michigan
faculty, students, staff and others to share
their educational resources and research with
CC: BY “Earth” symbol by Francesco Paleari from the Noun Project
the world.
7. Our Home
Office of Enabling Technologies
University of Michigan Medical School
open.umich.edu/education/med
8. When you look in textbooks
it’s difficult to find
African cases.
[S]ometimes it can be
confusing when you see
something that you see on
white skin so nicely and
very easy to pick up, but on
the dark skin it has a
different manifestation that
may be difficult to see.
-Richard
Phillips, lecturer, Department of
Internal Medicine, KNUST (Ghana) Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology
9. 1
culture of sharing
• Build partnerships and
communities of sharing
• Make visible the community
and support its needs
• Increase support for OER
production
(Innovate, Play, Experime
nt)
10. 2
comprehensive public
access
Make it easy to create
and use open content
• Build
tools, processes, incre
ase visibility of content
• Consult, educate, train
12. Facilitate OER Production
Affordability (low/no cost)
Ease of Reuse
lib.umich.edu/eb
m
STATS 250:
Introduction to Statistics and
Data Analysis
Brenda Gunderson
CC: BY-NC-SA
13. Expand and Improve OER
offerings
Quality
Innovation
New
distribution
channels
CC: BY-NC Michael Hortsch
14. Expand and Improve OER
offerings
Participatory Learning
Skills-based
Collaboration
openmi.ch/cgh-handbook
openmi.ch/pharm476-w11
15. Create a Culture of Sharing
Access
Partnerships
Visibility
Catalyze community Medical Textbook of the
interests Future, Diagnose This, A2DataDive
Digital storytelling, eTextbooks, U-M
Connect with other
Wikipedians, HASTAC, U-M
initiatives
Accessibility
Consult on new MERLOT, Global Health
projects Disparities, Emergency Health
16. Participation
• 360 contributors
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• 71 UMMS faculty
• 114 dScribes
• 21 U-M units
• 387 mailinglist
members
Collection
• >1,142 materials Participatory, ubiquitous, ada
• 188 videos
• 185 courses & ptable, affordable, innovative
resources
• 10,000 views per month and engaging
• 13 U-M colleges & schools
• >1 million YouTube views open education
• >31,400 SlideShare views
17. Connect Contact
open.umich.edu Emily Puckett Rodgers
open.michigan@umich.ed Open Education Coordinator
u Open.Michigan
Facebook epuckett@umich.edu
openmi.ch/mediafb @epuckett
Twitter
@open_michigan
Notes de l'éditeur
CC: BY SA opensourceway:http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4370250237/in/set-72157628736893483/Thanks for having me today, I’m very excited to be here with you today to talk about the future of education in the 21st century and how the University of Michigan is approaching these new opportunities through the Open.Michigan initiative. Quick show of hands, who here has ever taken a photo and posted it online, written a blog post, or shared content between your colleagues or fellow students?This just shows us how we’re all content creators and we all have the capacity to take an active role in how we share the resources we create to contribute to the wealth of educational content we have access to through the web.
The Internet is now being driven by cloud services and the semantic web. This allows for much more personalization, connectivity, and networked learning than ever before. Tech is driving learning and content development trends including:Platform agnostic delivery: mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop Cross-platform functionality: appsMultimodality: voice with video with images with text profile-based, responsive repositories (iTunes)We’re seeing the rise of a ton of openly licensed or open source platforms, networks, resources and organizations that support distributed participatory learning in new ways.
This all has an impact on how we learn and how we process information. This is from a recent Pew Internet Report from 2011: “As learning goes mobile” http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2011/Oct/Educase-2011.aspxAccording to Rainie, the “new kinds of learners” emerging in this evolving digital environment are:more self-directed (and less top-down) in their acquisition and sharing of knowledge;better arrayed to capture new information inputs;more reliant on feedback;more inclined to collaborate;more open to cross-disciplinary insights and creating their own “tagged” taxonomiesmore oriented toward people acting as their own individual nodes of production
Since we can create mashups of content uploaded to the web, communities are digitizing content and people are creating and recreating content on new platforms. This will be a combo of openly licensed content, proprietary resources and subscriptions to access that libraries have. Driven by demand, content is becoming more shareable:licensed to shareformatted to reuseaccessible (both in terms of platforms and ability) Content is becoming much more remixable and modular, with the ability to be accessed in short or larger chunks. Organizations like libraries that used to be focused on production, housing, are now supporting their communities by developing resources, support and tools that make it easier to share in an academic setting. All of these things are affecting schools and colleges across the country from San Jose State University to the University of Michigan.
So how does all this affect institutions? As a public institution, we have a responsibility to serve our community and to share the knowledge we produce at U-M. Recently Mary Sue Coleman has been campaigning about the importance of connecting our university to the rest of the state, by providing education and skills that can stay in Michigan. We're a very large public research institution. One of our taglines is: "Leaders and the Best." We pride ourselves on distributed innovation. Health System 22,007 faculty and staff42,301 faculty and staff58,947 students3 campuses:Ann Arbor, Dearborn, FlintWe support Open Access publishing, give copyright back to our faculty members for them to dictate how they share their work, and build a lot of open source tools (e.g. Sakai) on our campus.
This all leads up to how the Open.Michigan initiative got started. It’s Fall 2007. MIT's OpenCourseWare effort had been in place for seven years and MERLOT was well established. Joseph Hardin, a lecturer at the School of Information was interested in developing an OpenCourseWare program at U-M, but he didn't want to replicate MIT's top-down model. He wanted this model to be participatory and distributed, something that could be replicated across departments at such a large university and wasn't just focused on publication of content but on supporting open educational practices.
We found a home for Open.Michigan in the Medical School, with support from Dean Woolliscroft. Dean Woolliscroft sees Open.Michigan's efforts in alignment with the University's global mission, especially in the health sciences. "The Health OER program provides the opportunity for the University of Michigan health science schools and the School of Information to collaborate in an innovative, comprehensive approach to work with others to improve education opportunities for health care providers globally.” (April 2008)With this support, Open.Michigan is charged with gathering and editing the first two years of medical education at U-M and publishing these online as Open Educational Resources. We also support the African Health OER Network, a Hewlett funded project that encompasses over 17 institutions across the U.S. and Africa. Open.Michigan is still housed in the Medical School but we serve the entire University of Michigan community and campuses. We are two full-time staff "strong" with an additional program manager for our international health OER project and a handful of folks who dedicate some percentage of their appointment to Open.Michigan projects. Open.Michigan serves both as a model for other open education initiatives by developing and documenting support material as well as an initiative which supports open publication of U-M scholarly content.
There’s a tangible need to share and contextualize health sciences resources across the world, which is one of the reasons we’re supported by the Medical School. We are also ranked 6th in the nation as a leading Medical School and our School focuses on global innovation as responsible citizens. For us, open means going beyond using free content but contributing content back into the pool of resources available for the global learning community. We have two major goals at Open.Michigan: To support a thriving culture of sharing at U-Mand To Provide comprehensive public access to the scholarly output of our University.
In order to support a culture of sharing, we have several objectives we aim to achieve.We base our actions on participation and ground-up interest, so we have a lot of 1:1 contact with members of our community and I go to lots and lots of meetings with folks across campus.
Our goal doesn't stop at publishing content. We are also interested in making it easy for people to share by giving them tools and guidance for their own creation and publication of open content. We've developed an open publishing platform based on Drupal called OERbit. We've developed a participatory, volunteer driven process for collecting, assessing and re-publishing educational resources under open licenses called dScribe and we've developed a content and decision management tool to support the dScribe process called OERca. We try to make it easy to support open educational practices by providing lots of DIY resources and this is where our strong branding comes in handy. I’ll give you some examples of the types of projects we work on.
With the increasing availability of digitized collections, documents and primary source materials, it is becoming easier for faculty members to find and incorporate a variety of content into their classroom setting. This is an example of a history professor who created an “interactive syllabus.” Partnering with two GSI who knew where to find content and how to use it (licensing!), they created a wiki that featured embedded and linked content to a trove of primary source documents from libraries across the country. They were able to use this syllabus to engage students in conversations during the class time, focusing on using history as a lens for gaining skills like evaluation, analysis and synthesis. Dr. Witgen embedded points he wanted to make within this discussion rather than lecturing and was able to easily and quickly adapt to the needs of the students during the semester. This was the first time he had taught this course and it was outside of his discipline so finding and using primary source documentation and other research enabled him to engage the students in exploration of the content. He was able to focus on teaching and engaging, rather than lecturing and finding the content, thus flipping his classroom experience.
Brenda Gunderson teaches the Intro to Statistics class at U-M. Her class usually contains around 1,200 students per term. In order to meet their needs, she’s developed two book-sized resources to accompany her traditional textbook. Because she retained the copyright to these resources (interactive notes and a lecture guide) she’s now working with Open.Michigan to publish this content on our collection and we are depositing a local copy with the Espresso Book Machine in our library where students will be able to print out the books on demand. Because these resources will also be available on Open.Michigan, students can print out individual copies of chapters or download them onto their computers or tablets.
Michael Hortsch, (Assoc. Prof, Dept of Cell and Developmental Biology) Submitted course presentation slides to Open.Michigan as OER.Demand from students to interact with these slides: wanted a learning experience.Creating an app called “The Second Look” based on histology slides. Content is be openly licensed (CC: BY-NC) and available on Open.Michigan, The app will be commercializedE-T helping him to develop the content and the app for this project.
Not only do we showcase faculty and staff work, but students are an integral part of our initiative. We built the dScribe process around student participation, focusing on teaching students the skills to create and share their own educational resources. We also publish student content, like these posters and assignments from Pharmacy 476 and a cross-disciplinary handbook created for students engaged in global engagement that we supported publishing.
While we do publish a lot of content and house a collection of resources available to anyone, the power of our initiative lies in our community. In our third year we started partnering muchmore with current projects, interests and activities on campus. Instead of starting from "Open" we're starting with other people's passions, research interests and needs and blending "openness" into our support of these activities. This has been really successful and we've seen an increase in the amount of people participating in our events and in the outcomes of the events. You see a few examples on this slide of projects we're consulting on (MERLOT, Global Health Disparities, Emergency Health), committees we're a part of (eTextbooks, Digital Storytelling), and local conferences or events we've coordinated or presented at.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5538035618/in/set-72157628737045569For a grassroots initiative, we’ve seen an increase in the demand for our services, including consultation, training and publications support. We’ve had 40 requests for training at U-M or in the area in the past 2.5 yearsAnd we continue to publish DIY resources developed including what open licenses are, how to use them, guidelines for activities like video productionOpen.Michigan tries to capture the content that gets created in the classroom as well as in formal settings. We're now seeing the fall of the instructor and the rise of the mentor. Lines are blurring between what counts as scholarship and what counts as education (homework assignments, badges, mentorship). Faculty can focus on teaching/connecting with their students rather than on developing content. Flipped classroom Student are becoming content creators and breaking down distinctions between expert-lead scholarship and academic learning. It’s a very exciting time to be in education right now, with these emergent opportunities to focus our efforts on engaging students and brining them into the education landscape as collaborators that support intellectual exchange of ideas and contribute to new forms of scholarship. I’m really looking forward to seeing the impact of AL$ on campuses like yours and efforts like Open.Michigan at other universities.
Thanks for listening, I'm happy to answer any questions y'all might have. Feel free to get in touch with me or the Open.Michigan team through any of these channels.