Transcript Creating a Global Campus: Open Educational Resources Presenter: Kathleen Ludewig (Hope ‘06) Presented to: Hope College Computer Science Colloquium February 26, 2009 Copyright 2009 The University of Michigan.

Creating a Global Campus:
Open Educational Resources
Presenter:
Kathleen Ludewig (Hope ‘06)
Presented to:
Hope College
Computer Science Colloquium
February 26, 2009
Copyright 2009 The University of Michigan. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United
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What is OER
Why OER
Creation
Distribution
Collaboration
What are the main features of OERs?
“...educational materials and resources offered
freely and openly for anyone to use and under
some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.”
•the content (courses & learning assets)
•the delivery (CMS)
•the use and reuse (CC licensing)
The first in the field: MIT OpenCourseWare
Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/
A Huge Array Of OERs Exist Today
Across Different Populations Of Learners
K-12
Higher Education
Life-Long Learning
Teacher training
Courses
Books
Courseware
Images
Video lectures
Podcasts
Applications
Lesson plans
Journals
Games
Slide from Presentation CC BY William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Presentation at University of Michigan, October 23, 2008
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
OERs Are Available Across The World
Slide from Presentation CC BY William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Presentation at University of Michigan, October 23, 2008
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
What is OER
Why OER
Creation
Distribution
Collaboration
Goals of OER
• Equalize access to knowledge
• Impact teaching and learning
• Make these materials useful in developing
countries
• Global shortage of healthcare workers
• Learn from their use and development outside the
U.S.
Sources:
CC BY William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Presentation at University of Michigan, October 23, 2008
CC BY-SA OER Africa, http://www.oerafrica.org/Communities/OERAfrica_Home.aspx
What is OER
Why OER
Creation
Distribution
Collaboration
How it’s being done, elsewhere
Traditional OCW
publication model
Staff Centric
Challenges
• Cost
• Access to Faculty
• Scale
• Refresh Rate
how else can we do this?
dScribe publishing model
goals:
•scalable
•sustainable
•participatory
approach:
•automate and simplify a complex process
•leverage capacity of institutional technologies and
talents
“dScribes”
digital & distributed Scribes
motivated students who:
• organize, clear, tag course materials
• are familiar with technology and software
• learn about intellectual property & copyright
• engage with content in new ways
faculty & dScribe2
connect: license
material as OER
dScribe attends
training course
led by dScribe2
faculty & dScribe2
recruit dScribe
publish
to OER
site
dScribe
Publishin
g
Process
faculty transfers
course material to
dScribe
Class #1 Agenda:
find
dScribe for
open.michi
gan
roles
Class #1 Agenda:
find
dScribe for
open.michi
gan
dScribe
identifies
& documents
potential IP
issues
faculty reviews
material: publish
to U-M OER site
dScribe
Class #1 Agenda:
clear IP
find
dScribe for
open.michi
gan
dScribe2
instructor
dScribe makes
necessary edits
to course
material
BY: Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer
characters by Ryan Junell
OER team reviews &
clears IP issues
dScribe publication model
benefits to students:
•master course content
•learn about copyright and copyleft
•establish unique connection w/ faculty
•potential to get course credit
•collaborate w/ other dedicated classmates
•make resources available to underserved
dScribe publication model
benefits to faculty:
•students in course know best!
•establishing unique connection w/ students
•quality assurance of materials
•obtain user feedback on content > improve
content
Computer Science Challenge 1
How can we use technology and historical data
to streamline the process of determining
copyright status?
Developing software
, Presentation at University of Michigan
Source: https://open.umich.edu/oerca/
Source: https://open.umich.edu/oerca/
Modeling workflow
Source: https://open.umich.edu/oerca/
Source: https://open.umich.edu/oerca/
What action would you recommend
for this object & why?
Retain: Copyright Analysis
– This is a basic graph.
Data is not copyrightable.
This is a basic
representation of data
containing no creative
expression. If you and I
both had this data, we
could generate the same
graph easily.
What action would you recommend
for this object & why?
Retain: Public
Domain
Federal
government
documents are
in the public
domain.
Ideas for improvement
Predict action based on:
• Content type
• Historical data
Computer Science Challenge 2
How can we crowdsource the metadata/tagging
of objects?
Current
Future Possibility?
What is OER
Why OER
Creation
Distribution
Collaboration
Computer Science Challenge 3
How can we make our materials accessible in
low-bandwidth environments?
Facts
Internet Users
Internet Hosts
Cell Phone Users
Ghana
650,000 (2007)
South Africa
5.1 million (2005)
24,018 (2008)
1.297 million (2008)
7.604 million (2007) 42.3 million (2007)
Source: CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Source: International Development Research Centre,
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-6568-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Distribution: Meeting people where they are
• Where:
• Telecenters
• Mobile phones
• Traveling library
• Freedom Toaster
• How/Mediums
• Online
• Offline
• Hard Copy
Computer Science Challenge 4
How can we build a federated search that
includes other institutions’ OER repositories?
Federated Search
• Search what?
• Search where?
• Within an institution and its content hierarchies
• Across institutions with high bandwidth connections
• Across institutions with poor connections
• Search on?
• Metadata
• Automatically generated
• Manually added
• Full text
What is OER
Why OER
Creation
Distribution
Collaboration
Global Collaboration
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
University of Ghana
South Africa
University of the Western Cape
University of Cape Town
Computer Science Challenge 5:
• Which software platform(s) do we use for
remote collaboration and co-authoring of
materials?
Remote collaboration
• Email
• Teleconferencing
• Authoring Tools
• Wikis
• CMS
• Recommendations from audience?
Questions?
[email protected]
https://open.umich.edu/education/
https://open.mich.edu/wiki/
We were made
by Ryan Junell
Contributing Authors:
Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer,
Timothy Vollmer, Kathleen
Ludewig