Ted HanssChief Information Officer

University of Michigan Medical SchoolExcept where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Copyright 2012 The Regents of the University of Michigan

Initiative Descriptio

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Initiative Goals

Initiative Engageme

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July 2012

58,947 students

Health System 26,007 faculty, staff, volunteers, and students

3 campusesAnn Arbor, Dearborn, Flint

42,301 faculty and staff

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 enrich

the future.

Office of Enabling TechnologiesMedical School Information Services

University of Michigan Medical Schoolopen.umich.edu/education/med

Our Home

The mission of the African Health Open Educational Resources (OER) Network is to advance health education in Africa by creating and promoting free, openly licensed teaching materials created by Africans to share knowledge, address curriculum gaps, and support health education communities.

www.oerafrica.org/healthoer

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

“Open.Michigan enables University of Michigan faculty, students, staff and others to

share their educational resources and research with the world.”

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culture of sharing

comprehensive public access

1culture of sharing

• Build partnerships and communities of sharing

• Make visible the community and support it needs

• Increase support for OER production

2comprehensive public access

Make it easy to create and use open content

•Build tools, processes, increase visibility of content

•Consult, educate, train

Phase OneBuild processes, tools, policy

Phase TwoRefine processes, identify culture

Phase ThreeBuild community, evaluate, strategize

Phase OneBuild processes, tools, policy

Phase TwoRefine processes, identify culture

dScribe volunteers Expand OER

Community Events

dScribe volunteers Expand OER

Community Events

PolicyPublishing

Phase ThreeBuild community, evaluate, strategize

MERLOT, Global Health Disparities, Emergency Health

MERLOT, Global Health Disparities, Emergency Health

Digital storytelling, eTextbooks, U-M Wikipedians, HASTAC

Digital storytelling, eTextbooks, U-M Wikipedians, HASTAC

Medical Textbook of the Future, Diagnose This, A2DataDive

Medical Textbook of the Future, Diagnose This, A2DataDive

• Evaluation

• Strategic Planning

• Analytics

Catalyze community interests

Connect with other initiatives

Consult on new projects

Facilitate OER Production

Affordability (low/no cost)

Ease of Reuse

openmi.ch/history373

History 373: History of the American West

Michael Witgen CC: BY-SA

Facilitate OER Production

Affordability (low/no cost)

Ease of Reuse

lib.umich.edu/ebm

STATS 250: Introduction to Statistics and

Data AnalysisBrenda Gunderson

CC: BY-NC-SA

CC: BY-NC Michael Hortsch

Expand and Improve OER offerings

QualityInnovationNew distribution channels

Expand and Improve OER offerings

Participatory LearningSkills-basedCollaboration

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https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Badges

CC: BY-NC-SA “Soldering badge” adafruit

A badge is a symbol of identity, signifying a level of achievement or character, participation in an event or activity, or belonging to

a group. Open.Michigan wants to harness

the excitement created by those who share or advocate for sharing scholarly material and use that

to gain momentum in the open education movement at the

University of Michigan.

OutcomesParticipation

360 contributors71 UMMS faculty

114 dScribes (volunteers)21 U-M units 387 mailing list members

Collection

1,142 materials188 videos 180 courses & resources

10,000 views per month13 U-M colleges & schools1 million YouTube views27,000 SlideShare views

Open.Michigan’s analytics dashboard (openmi.ch/-DashBoard)

Ongoing Analysis

Futures …

ContactTed Hanssted@umich.edu

Connectopen.umich.eduopen.michigan@umich.edu

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Twitter @open_michigan

Thanks to Emily Puckett Rodgers, primary author of this

presentation.