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