Presentation slides from talk given at xHub Addis on May 21, 2014.
Abstract: http://www.slideshare.net/kludewig/2014-05-kathleenxhubaddis
PDF of whiteboard notes: https://www.slideshare.net/kludewig/2014-05-21xhubaddistrainingwhiteboard
1. Reflections and Tips from Working in Information
Services and Launching New Programs
Kathleen Ludewig Omollo
May 21, 2014 – xHub Addis
Slides at: http://tinyurl.com/kathleen-xhub-may2014
Except where otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright 2014 Kathleen Ludewig Omollo.
Image CC BY NC SA Foomandoonian (flickr)
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2. PATH
-Introductions
-Presentation
- Highlights from being part of new
programs
-“Unconference”
- Tools and tips
- Free resources and online
communities
- Tracking Trends
Image CC:BY-NC-SA werkunz (Flickr)
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3. Office of Enabling Technologies
• Mission:
• “The Office of Enabling Technologies aims to
strategically enhance learning experiences at
individual, team, institutional, and international
levels through novel uses of information services. By
leveraging a diverse toolset of technologies, design
and research principles, and interdisciplinary
partnerships, we empower our community to lead in
the rapidly changing healthcare environment. “
http://msis.med.umich.edu/et
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4. Enabling Tech - Lessons
• thinking about future, not just now
• trends-monitoring
• experimentation and creativity
• physical space for collaboration
• user-centered design
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6. Open.Michigan - Lessons
• Powerful small teams, w/ student engagement
• building a brand
• growing a community
• developing tools
• defining a strategy
• open as way to build reputation & authority
• widespread distribution (online, offline)
• crowdsourcing
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7. African Health OER Network
• OER = Open Educational Resources
• Two websites:
– http://oerafrica.org/healthoer
– http://openmi.ch/healthoernetwork
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8. African Health OER Network -
Lessons
• defining mission and services
• coordinating remote and diverse community
• multidirectional knowledge transfer
constraints can bring new approaches
• embedding feedback channels
• developing funding proposals
• impact evaluation –
short-term, intermediate, and long term outcomes
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9. We Too
• Part of half-time summer internship in 2009
with Corporation for a Skilled Workfoce
(http://www.csw.org/).
• Summary -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6igoLkpaF8U
Lessons:
• Changing economy
• Importance of social capital
• building on existing programs
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10. General Reflections
• Seek peers who challenge you
• Commitment and capacity to learn
• Tension: Perfectionism and procrastination -
"Good is excellence in motion”
• "Let yourself create those imperfect, yet
amazing ideas."
(slideshare.net/denisejacobs)
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11. General Reflections
• Agile development - incremental
development and collaboration with target
audience
• Anticipate future, get higher level
perspective
• "Don't forget to breathe. Don't forget to go
home"
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12. Pause for Questions & DiscussionsPause for Questions & Discussions
Dkscully (flickr)
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13. Copyright 2014 Kathleen Ludewig Omollo. Except where
otherwise noted, this work is available under a Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Connect with Kathleen 13
umich.edu/~kludewig
http://slideshare.net/kludewig
@kathleena20
Linkedin.com/in/KathleenLudewigOmollo
umich.academia.edu/Kath
leenLudewigOmollo/
15. Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr
Learn more at
open.umich.edu/share/license
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Group BrainstormingGroup Brainstorming
16. Tools - Productivity
• Tools and tips
• Free resources and online communities
• Tracking Trends
• (See PDF of whiteboard notes)
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17. Connect with xHub Addis 17
https://www.facebook.com/pages/X-hub-
Addis/705148929524254
@xhubaddis
http://xhubaddis.wordpress.com/feed/
Slides from this talk will be posted at
http://tinyurl.com/kathleen-xhub-may2014.
xhubaddis.com (under development)
Hinweis der Redaktion
Slide 1 -
Slides are up at http://openmi.ch/cccoer14. The abstract is at http://oerconsortium.org/2014/05/02/may-14-a-primer-on-open-licenses-and-intellectual-property-how-to-share-and-remix-legally-and-easily/, and https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Abstract-CCCOERWebinar-May14
Slide 2
I want to begin by talking a little bit about my path. I joined the open educational resources activities at University of Michigan in January 2008 as a graduate student volunteer to help a professor publish his course. Several months later Open.Michigan was launched in April 2008 as an umbrella open education initiative at the University of Michigan (U-M). Open.Michigan has two primary goals: to sustain a thriving culture of sharing
knowledge at U-M, and to provide comprehensive public access to all of U-M’s scholarly output.One thing that attracted me the field of open education is that opens us the community that you can reach. One of my professional and personal interests is multiculturalism and international development. With open education, there’s a larger common pool that people can draw from and one to which they are also empowered to contribute back to by customizing for their own contexts. It’s not just about the content, it’s about the connections to potential collaborators, to different mindsets, and to different experts.
Prior to my role at Open.Michigan, I admit that I when I heard people talk about copyright or other types of intellectual property, I tended to zone out because I considering it irrelevant to me, uninteresting, and needlessly complex. As a byproduct of my work with Open.Michigan, I became a sort of copyright guru and now appreciate its relevance, its purpose, and approaches to simplify explain and following copyright.
For our talk today, I want to focus on 4 things - how copyright affects you as producers and consumers of educational content within and beyond the classroom; Explain the purpose of intellectual property and the different types you may encounter; Define the characteristics of open content such as Open Educational Resources (OER); Explain the motivations and mechanics of open licenses as a method of sharing and attributing content
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Slide 13
Open licenses reduce that transaction cost.
When using an open license, you retain the copyright to your original work but give permission to others to copy and distribute your materials, provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify. You are giving permission in advance for some uses, while still keeping the option for people to contact you for permission for other uses beyond that.
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