Presentation given at Free Culture X in Washington DC.

1. dScribe
open>share>learn.evolve.
/ Free Culture X
/ February 13, 2010
Garin Fons
Except where otherwise noted, this work is available
under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://open.umich.edu/dScribe
Copyright © 2009 The Regents of the University of Michigan

2. Our mission is to help faculty,
students, staff, and self-motivated
learners maximize the impact of their
creative and academic work by making
it open and accessible to the public.

5. cast of characters
dScribes Open.Michigan
Team

6. connect
students
dScribes
staff faculty

7. connect
students web resources
dScribes
staff faculty
open.michigan

8. learn the basics

9. learn the basics
licensing
open
resources
cool! fun!
copyright

10. gather & license your resources

11. gather & license your resources
projects
presentations That’s
easy!
videos

12. assess & recommend actions
Class #1 Agenda:
find dScribe for
open.michigan

13. assess & recommend actions
Who created
Class #1 Agenda:
find dScribe for
open.michigan
this image?

14. OERca

15. clear copyright

16. clear copyright
Can we use
this image?
it depends.

17. find open content

18. find open content
advanced
search!

19. edit resources
CC: BY Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Timothy Vollmer 2007
CC: BY Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Timothy Vollmer, 2007

20. review resources
Looks
good!
CC: BY Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer, Timothy Vollmer 2007

21. publish resources

22. cool!
connect
learn
dScribes (faculty, student, or dScribes receive training on
staff) connect with copyright, licensing, OER, the
Open.Michigan & develop Open.Michigan initiative &
plan to collaborate the dScribe methodology
gather & license
dScribe publish
to OER
site
working together dScribes gather & license
their own content, then
toward open solicit & license content from
collaborators
Class #1 Agenda
roles
review
assess
Open.Michigan team reviews dScribes identify & document
material and publishes to copyright concerns, then find
Open.Michigan website & create new open content
dScribes we can
help.
Class #1 Agenda
clear
edit
O.M team dScribes make necessary dScribes clear copyright &
edits to the material, add escalate difficult issues to
metadata, license info, etc. Open.Michigan team
CC: BY Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer
characters by Ryan Junell

23. benefits
CC: BY-NC B-Tal (flickr)

24. benefits
“It’s fun.”
“It saves me time.”
“It’s totally easy.”
faculty “Will use for tenure review.”
“Increase department visibility.”
“Explore my interests & do good.”
staff
“I met new friends.”
“Did better with my class content.”
“Gained real world experience.”
students “Something to put on my resume.”

25. benefits
institutional
- potential to reduce the overall cost of OER production.
- enables rapid, scalable production of OER.
- creates meaningful experiences for professional and
educational development.
- supports a participatory approach to teaching and learning.

26. Knowledge and understanding are not
substances that are transferred...
students
teacher
learning
happens in
there
somewhere?
knowledge
CC:BY-NC-ND kioko (flickr)
See: Brown, John Seely and Richard P. Adler, “Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0” Educause Review, January/February 2008, pages 17 - 32

27. Knowledge and understanding
are socially constructed.
CC: BY-NC-SA tojosan (flickr)
See: Brown, John Seely and Richard P. Adler, “Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0” Educause Review, January/February 2008, pages 17 - 32

28. how we learn,
not what we learn.

29. dScribe in acti
on
CC: BY Horia V
arlan (flickr)

30. dScribe in action
University of Michigan
- College of Architecture
- College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
- Medical School
- Public Policy
- School of Education
- School of Information
- School of Nursing
Internationally
- KNUST - Kumasi, Ghana
- UCT - Cape Town, South Africa
- IAPSS - Global

31. architecture
Peter Von Buelow, Matt Ducharme-Smith, Michael
Lindstron, Chigozie Ozore, Ryan Donaghy, Thomas Brew

32. public policy
Bryce Pilz & Kathleen Ludewig

33. medicine, Ghana
Richard Phillips, Stephen Safro, Emmanuel Adu,
Veronica Obyere, Carey Engleberg

34. our start
Public Domain: National Archives of the Netherlands (flickr)

35. our goal
CC: BY-NC Mark Shandro (flickr)

36. Where does this all lead?
toward a culture of “OPEN-ness”:
• a 21st century education landscape where
educators, students, staff, and people around
the world use, share, and remix open content.
• holistic view - how we get there is important

37. How do we get there?
• faculty & students using and creating openly
licensed educational media
• institutions supporting open access journals
and textbooks
• developers building openly licensed software
tools on open source platforms
• all parties participating in innovative teaching
and learning exercises

38. Public Domain: Michael Reschke
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg

39. working together toward open.

40. https://open.umich.edu/wiki/ -> Presentation, poster, and diagram downloads

41. We were made
CC:BY Ryan
Junell
https://open.umich.edu/wiki/ -> Presentation, poster, and diagram downloads