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Open.Michigan offers dScribe training

January 31, 2011

Anyone interested in publishing a course open educational resources (OER) is invited to a training session for dScribe with the Open.Michigan folks.

Anyone with an interest in publishing a course or their own material as OER and learning more about the Open.Michigan initiative is invited. This session in particular will offer training on dScribe and cover basic information about copyright, intellectual property law, identifying common copyright issues in traditional course materials, and using Open.Michigan’s content clearance application, OERca.

SI alumna Emily Puckett Rodgers, open education coordinator with the Open.Michigan Office of Enabling Technologies, says dScribe is short for “digital and distributed scribes.” It is a participatory and collaborative model for creating open content that brings together enrolled students, staff, faculty, and self-motivated learners to create content that is openly licensed and available to people throughout the world.

The training session will be from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7 in the Turkish-American Friendship Room, 4004 Shapiro Library. Lunch will be provided; you are asked to RSVP for the session.

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Help make a digital textbook a reality

January 3, 2011

If you’ve ever wondered what a digital “textbook” would look like in the future, the Open.Michigan group has something in mind that will appeal to you.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the U-M Medical School would like to create the medical textbook of the future. The department is particularly interested in having SI students flex their design and innovation skills to help Open.Michigan and the Medical School’s Learning Resource Center with the project. Emily Puckett Rodgers, an SI alumna and open education coordinator with Open.Michigan, wants you to lend your perspectives, skills, expertise, and interests to shape this project for the educational opportunities of the 21st century.

Open.Michigan will host two design jams with the goal of transforming this idea into a reality. They will be from 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13 and Thursday, Jan. 20 in the Taubman Medical Library, 1135 E. Catherine St., room 3901. Dinner will be provided. An RSVP is requested.

To get you started, the sponsors suggest you ponder these questions:

  • What would a medical digital “textbook” of the future look like?
  • What kinds of information would it have?
  • How would you interact with it?
  • When would you use it?

This design jam will bring together students, faculty, and staff from across U-M. This event is an opportunity to apply some course concepts to a real opportunity with a small time commitment. There may also be opportunities for continued involvement in the project.

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Reading group to discuss distance learning

April 9, 2010

MSI student Robert M. Glushko will lead the Open.Michigan Reading Group in a discussion of “The Impact of OpenCourseWare On Paid Enrollment In Distance Learning Courses.” This is a doctoral dissertation by Justin K. Johansen of Brigham Young University.

According to the Open.Michigan Reading Group organizers, some institutions have been reluctant to follow MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) model of open publishing because of concerns about long-term funding and possible adverse effects on paid enrollment. Some organizations that initially created OCW programs found themselves forced to furlough them due to funding challenges. In this dissertation, Johansen examines the cost of converting courses to OCW, the impact of opening these courses on paid enrollments, and the long-term sustainability of OCW through the generation of new paid enrollments. As part of this study, Brigham Young University’s Independent Study Program converted three university and three high school courses to OCW.

Glushko, who is also a legal and policy consultant for the Open.Michigan Initiative, will open the session with a brief presentation based on Johansen’s dissertation and then will facilitate the discussion.

The group — open to everyone — will meet from 1-2 p.m. Tuesday, April 13 in the Turkish-American Friendship Room, 4004 Shapiro.

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Book group considers ‘Meaning of Open’

March 12, 2010

The Open.Michigan Reading Group will meet at the School of Information from 3-4 p.m. Thursday, March 18 in the Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall. Participants will discuss “What Does it Mean to be ‘Open’?” SI doctoral student Jude Yew will lead the discussion, which is open to all. The reading for this session is “The Meaning of Open,” a blog posting by Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president, product management, at Google. Yew’s research focus is on the study and design of systems that enable and facilitate open sharing and reuse behavior. Currently, he is investigating how to leverage the “social affordances” of an online music remixing community, ccMixter, to inform the design of systems that encourages individuals to behave “openly.”

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Open.Michigan reading group to meet

November 15, 2009

The Open.Michigan Reading Group invites you to its next session from 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18 in the Turkish/American Friendship Room, 4004 Shapiro Library.

This reading and discussion group, convened by members of the Open.Michigan Initiative, is for anyone with an interest in open educational resources, open access and open content initiatives, open source software, open archives and publishing, open data efforts, and open standards.

Selected readings for this session are by James Boyle (“The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain”) and Marc Parry (“Open Courses: Free, but Oh, So Costly”), which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Oct. 11.

In preparation for, or in between meetings, you are encouraged to keep the discussion going on the group’s blog, Twitter stream, or Facebook page, links to which are available.

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Reading group addresses open access

October 9, 2009

If you have an interest in such things as open educational resources, open access and open content initiatives, open source software, open archives and publishing, open data efforts, and open standards, then there’s a new group that’s just for you. The Open.Michigan Reading Group has formed for all students, faculty, and staff. The first session takes place Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Ehrlicher Room, 411 West Hall. Check out the Web site for the readings to be covered.

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