Day 1 - Monday
- Overview, logistics, events
- Setting individual and group goals for 10 days
- set concrete benchmarks, eg. 6 courses by end of residency to be featured on SoO landing page: https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/
- prioritize what benefits having all of us in same space
- individual focus areas: academia, open.michigan, open data - eg. core skills and competencies
- Skills map, eg. http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/14/laying-foundations-for-the-school-of-data/
- initial target sectors/areas/domains
- secondary target areas
- think about pipeline - learning about, applying, etc.
- End of day blog post (jane) - done
NOTES
Setting individual and group goals for 10 days
Where are we each coming from?
- Piet interested in integrating openness into everyday lives.
- Start in academia bc that's where I work. Commonize around themes -- as in philosophies, eg. transparency.
- Many flavors of openness -- School of Open should tackle all of those.
- Practically: UMIch is a public institution that is about developing and curating info for the public. Want to help UMich get it and articulate it, and have openness be the state of the culture.
- Big picture: Get public academic institutions to become more open.
- 3 concrete products:
- a set of archetypes so we can have a better understanding of the scope of open and how it relates to real people, eg. librarian, educator, scientist (exercise for vision/mission)
- draft of philosophy (vision/mission/desc/charter)
- creating something tangible - trying something and failing, eg. in the process of course building (the faster we can fail, the more we can learn)
- Molly was a librarian for five years and saw problems with distributing and sharing knowledge at universities (data, content, etc.). The system is broken!
- In graduate school to fix the system.
- School of Open could provide straightforward tools/resources to educate members of the academic community and policymakers and public about "what openness means, why it matters, why it's of value to them" so we can stop reinventing the wheel.
- eg. Librarians all over the states teaching courses about copyright and why it matters, etc. But we are reaching only one room of people at a time.
- If we can have universal resources, we can improve efficiency of awareness raising and we can scale it up. Nationally, state, institutional.
- System = how we take information and share it. Copyright is a huge piece of it, but it's also patents, how we approach data. Many closed systems interacting with or not interacting with each other.
- Big picture: How to make all the closed information sharing systems more open and how to scale that up.
- 3 concrete products:
- more than one course that is nearly final. (Intro to CC/CC licenses, finding open content/OER, creating open resources)
- skills map nearly finalized (easier to say what is and is not a School of Open skill)
- badges/certification mapped to skills map (badges are often tacked on or not there, have badging from the beginning)
- Jane
- involved in both CC and P2PU communities for a long time
- position came up, made sense
- really interested in building School of Open collectively -- practice what we will be creating coures around.
- 3 concrete products:
- 3 partners/communities on board to create courses
- 6 courses started, 1 nearly finalized
- skills map aligned with certification - checklist of criteria of what is and is not an open course
- Kamil
- CC Poland from 4 years, analyst and instructor, educating about openness, copyright, privacy (for Panoptykon foundation), NGO activist in few other projects
- searching for more effective and scalable ways to teach openness, open educational resources and basics of copyright and copyright reform
- interested in online materials that can be easily adapted to offline learning (like for school teachers or workshops instructors in NGOs)
- Big picture: spreading knowlegde and skills important in openness to NGO trainers, instructors, educators
Where to start:
- Skills map (this afternoon)
- courses
- badges/certification
- community outreach/partners
- set of archetypes
- draft of philosophy
Skills Map - proto version!
http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school_of_open_skills_map
http://info.p2pu.org/2012/07/16/day-1-of-school-of-open-in-berlin/
Day 2 - Tuesday
Day 3 - Wednesday
Day 4 - Thursday
- Review
- discuss and brainstorm community outreach
- online media presence
- social media: #schoolofopen, @schoolofopen taken
- mailing lists
- website/landing page, about info page (schools)
- Create (online) courses (con'td): https://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-course/
- End of day blog post (jane)
Day 5 - Friday
- Review
- Teacher guides to courses
- Create courses (cont'd)
End of day blog post (piet)
Thing we need to make: A page that shows people how to find and identify (c) and CC info on a website or resource.
= Thinking behind the course =
I want to help a teacher share/use resources in the classroom.
So I need to help her find, assemble, adapt, and present these resources.
Constraints to sharing/using resources:
- budget: free content
- format: editable content, available and free tools to convert content
- connectivity: offline content, multi format content,
- time: clear well marked content (metadata), rights are cleared, useful/efficient search tools, trusted and responsive community, social media tools
- rights: clarity, compatibility
- dirth of materials
- language: translatable content
- context: adaptable content
Overarching question: How can we help her FIND better?
Hypothesis: A course is a package of learning activities aimed at a particular action the user is already familiar with.
1) Learn the concept that free shit is all over the web
+ access and Pearson vs. CNX book
+ dirth of materials
2) Understand the limits of formats (digital)
+ convert a youtube video to mp4
+ try to make edits, comments on a PDF, google doc vs. etherpad
+ try accesing content using a variety of tools
3) know the right tool fo rthe non-web environment
+ download a youtube video
4) fast searching strategies
+using google vs. oer commons to find free, editable, k-8 science materials
+compare cc by license to TOU page to figure out what uses you can make
+use a community list to find content (google group, facebook, merlot, twitter)
++add hastags
++compare responses and who is helpful
5) know your rights
+compare/remix content with different licenses
Working on Teach Someone Something as part of larger open content course: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/Teach_someone_something
Day 6 - Monday
- Review - left to do
Skills map- courses (priority 1!)
- badges/certification (keep on the table) - move to later in the week, piet lead that discussion in the sprint
- community outreach/partners (discuss on wed)
set of archetypesdraft of philosophy
OtherWrite / Create -> About content / explanatory resourcesinfo.p2pu.org about pagehalf-pagerslidestalking points
Workshop toolkit + prep for Thur (do on wed)
Digital sprint prep- Feedback on other events
- plan and run 26 july evening hackathon (discuss wed)
saturday chloe event (school of open participates informally, maybe a 30 min group activity)- get feedback on agenda for open policy institute / school of open meeting (discuss wed)
Revisit skills map for badges/certificationsurvey existing badges, decide which to leverage: https://p2pu.org/en/badges/, map badges/certification to skills mapdiscuss who does assessment (validates learning)discuss/find partners/endorsers for badges and challenges - for example, Open.Michigan holds a number of workshops and one-on-one sessions with our community to help them learn to do these activities; we'd be happy to endorse badges from the School of Open and display them on our site when our community earns them
- End of day blog post (piet)
- link to finding, using and sharing open content course
- explain common open skills from this course
- discuss making the course-building process more transparent in P2PU
Molly: What we're creating (first course) is useful for an academic audience. Working with Open.Michigan so priority is resources around CC. Open Access could be a topic during digital sprint tomorrow, but otherwise secondary priority.
Piet: Ditto - useful for Michigan audience. Want to work on courses that can be directly used by Open.Michigan team in lieu of their current training. (Open.Michigan has quick and dirty guidelines.) Idea is to send people to School of Open to get badges and come back to Open.Michigan.
Day 7 - Tuesday
- Review
- Badges (cont'd)
- `logo for School of Open
- Digital sprint last min prep
- Open Challenges Virtual Sprint @2-5pm
- End of day blog post (molly)
Day 8 - Wednesday
- Review
- Head over cowork at Mozilla offices: http://www.josettihoefe.de/
- design and plan offline formats
- create a workshop toolkit
- include different formats
- full workshops
- lightweight group activities
- testdrive workshop toolkit at 26 july event
- Individual focus areas
- End of day blog post (jane)
Day 9 - Thursday
Molly is not worried. Make sure we know what we're doing when we leave.
Piet's worries:
- What the funding bodies would do to School of Open, eg. meeting in October. Will this significantly impact future of School of Open?
- Jane will send agenda and you will give feedback.
Partners
- Defer contacts to Emily at Open.Michigan.
- Focus specifically on getting faculty at U of M who are doing Coursera to use School of Open as learners.
- Figure out how to integration School of Open courses into School of Information, U of M.
- Dave would do facilitation at Michigan.
Molly: Life will get in way.
Partners
- Nancy Simms (Univ of MN) Copyright Librarian. JD, library degree.
- Association of Scholarly resources and libraries - road show. Traditional librarians, some may be interested in.
Day 10 - Friday DAY OFF
ReviewBadges (cont'd)Explanatory resources (cont'd)Create courses (cont'd) / Individual focus areasWrap-up and next steps!End of day blog post (jane)