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Initiative Descriptio
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Initiative Goals
Initiative Engageme
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July 2012
58,947 students
Health System 22,007 faculty and staff
42,301 faculty and staff
3 campusesAnn Arbor, Dearborn, Flint
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 TechnologiesUniversity of Michigan Medical School
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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 its 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
Year OneBuild processes, tools, policy
Year TwoRefine processes, identify culture
Year ThreeBuild community, evaluate, strategize
Year OneBuild processes, tools, policy
Year TwoRefine processes, identify culture
dScribe volunteers Expand OER
Community Events
PolicyPublishing
Year Three
Build community, evaluate, strategize
MERLOT, Global Health Disparities, Emergency Health
Digital storytelling, eTextbooks, U-M Wikipedians, HASTAC
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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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)
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