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Openness: International Open Knowledge Initiatives Karen Vignare, Director, MSUglobal


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


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


Principles for Openness• Open Educational Resources + Open Research and Data +

Active LearningSupports

1. Creation of new resources from students2. Students skilled for 21st century workforce3. Creation of new networks4. Faster dissemination of critical knowledge


Design Technology to FitProject ToolsMy Horse University (work with Chile/University Mayor)

Adobe Connect • Adobe Creative Suite • 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


Design Technology to FitProject ToolsMetro Food/Metro Ag MOOC & more Word Press• Adobe Connect•Agri-Drupal•

Competencies

Various work with African Partners: National University of Rwanda, University of LUNAAR, Malawi, African Virtual University

OER, FAO elearning, MOOCs (Coursera)

World Bank, Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook

Story Line (all OER)

MSU Online Learning Programs Angel• Adobe Connect•Desire2Learn


1. Metropolitan Agriculture—the launch of new discipline at MSU

2. Six week online course3. Openly licensed content

MetroAg Open Online CourseCourse features

Weekly webcast Weekly reading Weekly discussion forum Resources Innovation Project


What is Metropolitan AgricultureMetropolitan 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


MOOpen/Participatory Learning Modified:OC Design

1. Given new field, experts define what is known2. Students assumed to be professionals3. Student engagement through discussion, webconferences

and sharing of plans4. Project oriented—multiple cases presented

Source: http://metroagcourse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MetroAg_Concept.pdf


Challenges

1. Instructor time for development2. Making content open3. Too much information to convey in webcasts4. Need more interaction in webcasts5. Tracking of webcast participation6. Development of credit option7. Need better discussion forum tool8. Better communication/email tool


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

Future Spartan MOOCs

photo by: flickr/ xJasonRogersx


Foundations of Science – May 2013


Food Safety Knowledge Networkwww.foodsafetyknowledgenetwork.org



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


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


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.


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


AgShare: Open Knowledge for Development

www.oerafrica.org/agshare


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.



First Pilot Convening March 2010 Nairobi, Kenya


Pilots Started June 20101. 3 Countries: Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya2. 4 Universities

•Haramaya University, Ethiopia•Moi University, Kenya•Makerere University, Uganda•United States International University, Kenya

3. 2 University Networks•AERC (CMAAE)•RUFORUM


CMAAE Makerere USIU HaramayaCollaborative creation of OER case studies across two universities in the CMAAE. Coffee in Ethiopia and Maize in Kenya.

OER creation and community engagement as part of student field research: Dairy Value Chain. South-western Uganda. Case materials for MSc and down streamed materials for improved farmer practice.

OER co-creation and feedback loops by students in internships and African faculty of agriculture. Course taught to leaders of farmer organizations, aspirant commercial farmers, and other interested parties.

OER creation of the course Perspectives on Agriculture Extension for the RUFORUM MSc AICM program.

Strengths as a pilotReplication and customization in CMAAE; co-creation using two universities; students and faculty working together to create cases; involvement of community-wide partners.

Ties research and OER sustainably with graduate student research; Ties with community engagement platform; creates field-based OER illustrating practices; potential down streaming to farmers.

Co-creation using multi-institutions of different types; community feedback loops; students on internships create content; content can be shared through commercial farmer producer organizations.

Replication and customization throughout RUFORUM; creating a complete OER course; enables undergraduate and graduate students to participate in creating materials as part of internships and field projects.


OER Resources Created

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Resource Type QuantityInstitutional Partners Contributing Resources

Student Theses 3 Makerere and Moi

Teaching Cases 10 AllScholarly Paper (in progress) 2 Makerere

Reports 7 Makerere, Moi, and USIU

Multimedia—DVDs/CDs 7 All

Community Brochures 19 All

Posters 6 All


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


Africa Leadwww.africaleadftf.org


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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