1. Openness: International Open
Knowledge Initiatives
Karen Vignare, Director, MSUglobal
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2. Agenda
• MSUglobal Introduction
• Principles for Openness
• Project 1: Metro Ag/Metro Food MOOC
• Project 2: Food Safety Knowledge Network
• Project 3: AgShare
• Project 4: Africa Lead
• Questions
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3. Introduction
• MSUglobal engages in OER projects that leverage content
and research expertise at Michigan State University (tag line
we enhance Reputation, Research and Revenue)
• Work with faculty and staff to infuse OER processes and
technologies
• Create university wide policy and procedures
• Use scalable approaches and available repositories to
maximize impact
• Work with different technologies and software solutions as
needed by project
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4. Principles for Openness
• Open Educational Resources + Open Research and Data +
Active Learning
Supports
1. Creation of new resources from students
2. Students skilled for 21st century workforce
3. Creation of new networks
4. Faster dissemination of critical knowledge
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5. Design Technology to Fit
Project Tools
My Horse University (work with Adobe Connect • Adobe Creative Suite •
Chile/University Mayor) ANGEL • Camtasia • Constant Contact •
Dreamweaver • Drupal • Facebook •
Microsoft CRM • NCRS • Raptivity • Twitter
• YouTube
Food Safety Knowledge Network Articulate • Camtasia Relay • Camtasia
Studio Search Indexing Tool • Wordpress •
Open Office• Agri-Drupal
King Khalid University ANGEL • MSU eNet • Online platform
•Blackboard Collaborate
Africa Lead Resource Database • elearning (Articulate)
AgShare OER reliance on third party
Latin America Learning Drupal • Panopto
College of VetMED Multi-media Platform
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6. Design Technology to Fit
Project Tools
Metro Food/Metro Ag MOOC & more Word Press• Adobe Connect•Agri-Drupal•
Competencies
Various work with African Partners: OER, FAO elearning, MOOCs (Coursera)
National University of Rwanda, University of
LUNAAR, Malawi, African Virtual University
World Bank, Gender in Agriculture Story Line (all OER)
Sourcebook
MSU Online Learning Programs Angel• Adobe Connect•Desire2Learn
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7. MetroAg Open Online Course
1. Metropolitan Agriculture—the  Course features
launch of new discipline at MSU  Weekly webcast
2. Six week online course  Weekly reading
3. Openly licensed content  Weekly discussion forum
 Resources
 Innovation Project
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8. Metropolitan Agriculture
Concepts:
1. Response to global challenge created by the
evolving agriculture, food and resource
needs of highly concentrated metropolitan
regions throughout the world.
2. Complement to other agricultures and not a
substitute.
3. Ensure the production and service potential
of agriculture is boosted to sustainably serve
the diverse demands of metropolitan
consumers.
4. Gives agriculture a unique, indispensable
and sustainable place in metropolitan
regions.
Source: http://metroagcourse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MetroAg_Concept.pdf
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9. Open/Participatory Learning Modified:
1. Given new field, experts define what is known
2. Students assumed to be professionals
3. Student engagement through discussion, webconferences
and sharing of plans
4. Project oriented—multiple cases presented
Source: http://metroagcourse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MetroAg_Concept.pdf
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10. 1. Instructor time for development
2. Making content open
3. Too much information to convey in webcasts
4. Need more interaction in webcasts
5. Tracking of webcast participation
6. Development of credit option
7. Need better discussion forum tool
8. Better communication/email tool
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11. Future Spartan MOOCs
1. Current/Potential MOOCs
• Science
• Food Safety
• Food Fraud
• Metropolitan Agriculture
• Gender in Agriculture
• Writing
2. MSUglobal is a partner in leading
cooperative
• Effort—faculty, technology
photo by: flickr/ xJasonRogersx
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12. Foundations of Science – May 2013
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13. Food Safety Knowledge Network
www.foodsafetyknowledgenetwork.org
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15. What is Food Safety Knowledge Network
• Developed a competency framework with industry
experts from around the world
• Developed and aggregated resources aligned with
the 13 key areas outlined in the competency
framework
• Developed a competency-mapping tool
• Developed a bank of test items assessing the 13
competency areas
• Piloted the model through online and face-to-face
trainings in developing countries
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16. Technology Design
• Two websites—repository and competency site which
scrapes resources
• Identify existing resources and pull them
• open source technology
• creating an open source tool to map the OER to the
competency frameworks,
• open source Creative Commons DiscoverEd search tool to
improve the discoverability of FSKN resources, later a version
written in Nutch was used
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17. Results
• Five pilot groups collaborated with the Food Safety
Knowledge Network for training resources and assessments
• All of the pilot programs demonstrated effectiveness of the
nearly 90 training resources developed through the FSKN
pilots.
• There was a 6-16% increase in score between the pre and
post-assessment. Those with the lowest scores on the pre-
tests showed the most improvement.
• The online learners preferred the audio files resources when
compared to video.
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18. The Future of FSKN
• World Bank has asked MSU because of faculty and FSKN to
participate in a new endeavor called Global Food Safety
Partnership
• Will include MOOCs and redesign of FSKN to include more
meta-data, collaboration, harvesting, federation, platform
independence (but required specifications)
• FSKN will be enhanced regardless
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19. AgShare: Open Knowledge for
Development
www.oerafrica.org/agshare
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20. AgShare Vision
– To impact the welfare and health of farmers in
Africa
– by empowering MSc students and graduates of
African institutions
– to achieve change in agriculture
– by leveraging African knowledge through OER
processes and products
– that are integrated into universities and the global
knowledge pool.
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22. First Pilot Convening March 2010 Nairobi, Kenya
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23. Pilots Started June 2010
1. 3 Countries: Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya
2. 4 Universities
• Haramaya University, Ethiopia
• Moi University, Kenya
• Makerere University, Uganda
• United States International University, Kenya
3. 2 University Networks
• AERC (CMAAE)
• RUFORUM
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24. CMAAE Makerere USIU Haramaya
Collaborative creation of OER creation and OER co-creation and OER creation of the
OER case studies across community feedback loops by course Perspectives on
two universities in the engagement as part of students in internships Agriculture Extension
CMAAE. Coffee in student field research: and African faculty of for the RUFORUM MSc
Ethiopia and Maize in Dairy Value Chain. agriculture. Course AICM program.
Kenya. South-western Uganda. taught to leaders of
Case materials for MSc farmer organizations,
and down streamed aspirant commercial
materials for improved farmers, and other
farmer practice. interested parties.
Strengths as a pilot
Replication and Ties research and OER Co-creation using multi- Replication and
customization in CMAAE; sustainably with institutions of different customization
co-creation using two graduate student types; community throughout RUFORUM;
universities; students research; Ties with feedback loops; creating a complete
and faculty working community students on internships OER course; enables
together to create cases; engagement platform; create content; content undergraduate and
involvement of creates field-based OER can be shared through graduate students to
community-wide illustrating practices; commercial farmer participate in creating
partners. potential down producer organizations. materials as part of
streaming to farmers. internships and field
projects.
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25. OER Resources Created
Institutional Partners
Resource Type Quantity
Contributing Resources
Student Theses 3 Makerere and Moi
Teaching Cases 10 All
Scholarly Paper (in
progress) 2 Makerere
Reports 7 Makerere, Moi, and USIU
Multimedia—DVDs/CDs 7 All
Community Brochures 19 All
Posters 6 All
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26. Technical Aspects Managed by OER Africa
• OER Africa uses a publishing system to disseminate
resources
• OER Africa adds metadata
• Agshare published as pilot content and resources
• OER Africa keeps a repository of African created
resources
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27. Africa Lead
www.africaleadftf.org
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28. Database and Resources
• Africa Lead is part of USAID funding from Feed the
Future—mainly designed for training change agents
• Open Source database design to share short courses
• Resources shared
• CADDP Train for Change Management being
transformed to elearning
• OER Africa took over the grant
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30. QUESTIONS?
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