Open Michigan is an initiative dedicated to helping the University of Michigan community
share our scholarly resources with the world.
We do a lot of things to support this sharing including developing tools, processes and methods that
support open teaching and learning on our campus.
We help our community create and reuse digital content that encourages innovation, creativity and participation.
Faculty, students and staff who want to share their work or their departments' work
can publish it in our collection under "Creative Commons" licenses.
Our media rich collection of open content has materials from over 360 contributors across 13 University of Michigan colleges, schools and departments.
It includes animations, illustrations, open Wikis, videos, presentations, posters and student notes,
all licensed for distribution and adaptation.
We have over 10,000 views per month to our collection on open.umich.edu and almost 1,000,000 views on the 188 videos of our YouTube channel.
Established in 2008, the Open Michigan initiative was housed at the medical school, with the goal of making the first 2 years of the medical course content available as
open educational resources. Some examples of our collection include
"The Principles of Researching and Problem Solving" from the College of Pharmacy. This course contains presentation slides
but it also contains 4 student presentations and 3 student posters.
The professor of this course expressly invited students to contribute content and showcased the outstanding products from her class.
Another example is the interactive syllabus for the "History of the American West."
This is a wiki that contains almost the primary source documentation from digitized collections across the United States.
Finally, we have videos on Microbiology co-authored by a Michigan Professor
who lectures at ? University of Science and Technology in Ghana.
The collection of 12 videos have received a sum of 220,000 views on YouTube
with most of those view in the US, the UK, India, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Our collection grows through community involvement, and we support this community by showcasing
and connecting University of Michigan research and tools that support the creation and use of accessible,
adaptable research and scholarly work.
Open Michigan initiative also host events like design jams, workshops and training opportunities for our community
to learn how to share better.
There are lots of ways to get involved with us; You can volunteer to help us publish content,
you can submit your own work, or you can advocate for the use of licenses and open practices in your own circles here at the University of Michigan.
For more information please send us an email or check out the rest of our website.
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