The Sakai/eduCommons/OCW Project Supporting OCW Site Creation

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The Sakai/eduCommons/OCW ProjectSupporting OCW
Site Creation

• John Dehlin
• Utah State University
• Joseph Hardin
• Zhen Qian
• University of Michigan

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Sakai - An Open Source Collaboration and Learning
Environment

• A community and foundationa group of people and
  resources supporting the code and each other,
  realizing large scale Open Source efficiencies
• A collaboration and learning product with
• A set of toolswritten and supported by various
  groups and individualswhich have been tested and
  released as a unit
• An extensible framework for building
  collaboration tyools and servicesprovides basic
  capabilities to support a wide range of tools and
  servicesteachingand research
• An LMS that also supports online research

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Support Teaching and Learning
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Support Distributed Research
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Bringing research to the classroom
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Bringing it all online
Tests Quizzes Tool
Discussion Tool
OnLine Class Support
Research Team Support
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Putting an OCW Pipeline in the LMS - OCW
Publishing from Sakai
Initial MIT OCW process has difficulty
scaling. How can we support this process?
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Overview of ProcessBased on Hybrid Publishing
ModelIntegrated with MIT Teaching Process
Plan
Build
Teach/Manage
Publish
Support
Upstream foundational prep
Content development
Live teaching and course administration
Open publication
Renewal, archiving, and preservation

• Recruit faculty
• Plan TEACHING version of course
• Plan OCW version of course
• Review existing content
• Identify resolve IP (except permissions)
• Track IP by object in system

• Collect/capture existing content
• Build content into LMS sections/templates
• Enter metadata
• Create commissioned works
• Process permission requests make IP edits

• Update/supplement materials
• Post announcements
• Assign, track, grade student work
• Interact (faculty-student and student-student)

• Perform course QA
• Obtain faculty approval
• Export to OCW site

• Update course content
• Archive course content

HYBRID INTEGRATED PROCESS
Color legend BLACK Normal teaching
process BLUE Required for open publishing ORANGE F
ormer OCW steps eliminated

• Spec course/map content

• Reformat/clean up/ restructure/contextualize
• Enter content into CMS
• Perform authoring QA

• Perform final edit
• Perform production QA

• Respond to user feedback
• Review/refine metadata (MIT Library)
• Edit course for errors

ELIMINATED STEPS
MIT-Supported LMS
Archive
MIT-supported option Assume 80 participation
Dspace Archive

• Robust authoring
• Easy capture
• Easy update
• Document managemt
• Restricted teaching matls
• Open teaching matls
• Import/export
• Offline authoring
• Self-publishing
• Multiple views
• Course admin

• Publishing tools
• Embedded tracking code
• Embedded license terms
• IP tracking
• Metadata tagging
• Hi-design display templates
• Preview capability
• Downloadable ZIP files
• Discussion group suppt
• Archiving
• Workflow

ExternalOCWAudiences
Publish
OCW External Web Site
ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
MIT Faculty Teaching Assistants
- OR -
Teach
MITStudents
Harvest for archi ving or publishing
Individual/local supported option Assume 20
participation
Individual Teaching Web Sites
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OCW Tool Support for the Hybrid Process

• Support for Tagging in Sakai
• Helping faculty, students create tags (metadata)
  for
• IP status Creative Commons
• OCW Navigation MIT Categories
• Export Choose what to put on
• OCW site

OCW Tool
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We Like This Hybrid Model a Lot
Plan
Build
Teach/Manage
Publish
Open publication
Content development
Upstream foundational prep

• Perform course Quality Assurance
• Obtain faculty approval
• Export to OCW site

Live teaching and course administration

• Recruit faculty
• Plan TEACHING version of course
• Plan OCW version of course
• Review existing content
• Identify resolve IP (except permissions)
• Track IP by object in system

• Collect existing content
• Build content into LMS sections or templates
• Enter metadata
• Create commissioned works
• Process permission requests make IP edits

• Update and supplement materials
• Post to email, wikis, blogs, announcements,
  discussions, forums, IM
• Assign, track, grade student work
• Interact (faculty-student and student-student)
  through all channels above

BLACK Normal teaching process BLUE Required for
open publishing
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Planning Phase Includes Training for Faculty
and Support Staff in Colleges and Depertments
Planning Training
Upstream foundational preparation
All done within LMS faculty are already familiar
with IP Object tracking comes along with the use
of the system Training has additional benefits
in educating faculty on IP Support staff
distributed throughout university

• Recruit faculty
• Plan TEACHING version of course
• Plan OCW version of course
• Review existing content
• Identify resolve IP (except permissions)
• Track IP by object in system

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Teaching and Managing Course Materials
All done within LMS faculty are already familiar
with IP Object tracking can proceed throughout
course Materials/Objects can be tagged with OCW
categories (Syllabus, Lecture Notes, Assignments,
etc.) wherever they come from, wiki,
blog Increasingly, objects tagged by system,
eg, Assignments

• Update and supplement materials
• Post to email, wikis, blogs, announcements,
  discussions, forums, IM
• Assign, track, grade student work
• Interact (faculty-student and student-student)
  through all channels above

• Collect existing content
• Build content into LMS sections or templates
• Enter metadata
• Create commissioned works
• Process permission requests make IP edits

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Content Development and Teaching Proceed
Throughout Course Period

• Take advantage of that OCW Tool is available to
  add tags anytime in development or teaching
• Capture IP and OCW category metadata as class
  proceeds, as new material is developed
• Perhaps have a student scribe who has
  permissions set to add metadata when new
  document appears, they tag it perhaps make this
  a class activity, develop student incentives
  (e.g., better future access)
• Have system flag incomplete data on objects
  direct faculty or students to places of needed
  metadata

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OCW Tool eduCommons
Publish
QA done within eduCommons by staff local or
central Faculty receives an email with the URL
of the QAd OCW site, decides whether or not to
authorize publishing If NO, faculty given
available support local or central supported
through eduCommons workflow If YES, OCW site is
published through eduCommons
Open publication

• Perform course Quality Assurance
• Obtain faculty approval
• Export to OCW site

This work very much in progress, thanks to
support from Hewlett Foundation, and ongoing
efforts from Utah State University and the
University of Michigan
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Sakai in ProductionOpen Educational Resource
Engines
Text
4000 courses each year at U Michigan alone more
at UNISA (U South Africa)
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Questions, CommentsFor more infohttp//sakai
project.orgSakai/eduCommons/OCW ProjectZhen
Qian zqian_at_umich.eduJohn Dehlin
johndehlin_at_gmail.comJoseph Hardin
hardin_at_umich.edu
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Training
Build
Teach/Manage
Publish
Open publication
Content development
Upstream foundational prep

• Perform course Quality Assurance
• Obtain faculty approval
• Export to OCW site

Live teaching and course administration

• Recruit faculty
• Plan TEACHING version of course
• Plan OCW version of course
• Review existing content
• Identify resolve IP (except permissions)
• Track IP by object in system

• Collect existing content
• Build content into LMS sections or templates
• Enter metadata
• Create commissioned works
• Process permission requests make IP edits

• Update and supplement materials
• Post to email, wikis, blogs, announcements,
  discussions, forums, IM
• Assign, track, grade student work
• Interact (faculty-student and student-student)
  through all channels above

Color legend BLACK Normal teaching
process BLUE Required for open publishing
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We Like This Hybrid Model a Lot
Plan
Build
Teach/Manage
Publish
Open publication
Content development
Upstream foundational prep

• Perform course Quality Assurance
• Obtain faculty approval
• Export to OCW site

Live teaching and course administration

• Recruit faculty
• Plan TEACHING version of course
• Plan OCW version of course
• Review existing content
• Identify resolve IP (except permissions)
• Track IP by object in system

• Collect existing content
• Build content into LMS sections or templates
• Enter metadata
• Create commissioned works
• Process permission requests make IP edits

• Update and supplement materials
• Post to email, wikis, blogs, announcements,
  discussions, forums, IM
• Assign, track, grade student work
• Interact (faculty-student and student-student)
  through all channels above

BLACK Normal teaching process BLUE Required for
open publishing
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ImplementationPublishing 1200 Courses
Site Highlights 4Syllabus 4Course
Calendar 4Lecture Notes 4Assignments 4Exams 4Probl
em/Solution Sets 4Labs and Projects 4Simulations 4
Tools and Tutorials 4Video Lectures