Amplifying Openness through Rewards

Recognition

Emily Puckett RodgersPieter Kleymeer

Follow Along

Detailed Handouthttp://openmi.ch/opened11-handout

Evaluation and Impact

“I share learning materials with my colleagues to…” ?

http://openmi.ch/om-eval2011

Evaluation and ImpactEstablish Open.Michigan in main channels of U-M

communication

Clarify copyright in OER and provide resources

Make short-term improvements to OER

Encourage cultural shifts in learning

http://openmi.ch/om-eval2011

dScribes Work

dScribes Don’t Work

Rote work and little continuity between cohorts resulted in the dScribes being segregated from the other members of the Open.Michigan community.dScribe OCW meeting – tvol on flickr – CC-BY

Strategic Vision

Open.Michigan enables University of Michigan faculty, students, staff and others to share their educational resources and research with the world.

Open.Michigan’s efforts contribute to two primary goals:

1. to sustain a thriving culture of sharing knowledge at U-M; and

2. to provide comprehensive public access to all of U-M’s scholarly output.

http://openmi.ch/om-strategy

Face-to-Face Community

"Participation has the most impact when designers can scale up collaborative opportunities to all interested visitors. This means offering every visitor a legitimate way to contribute to the institution, share things of interest, connect with other people and feel like an engaged and respected participant."

- Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture

Community Interviews

Open.Michigan participants want recognition for practicing openness and acknowledgement of the skillsets they develop through those practices.

They also want to know about the supporters and experts of open practices within their professional or academic networks.http://openmi.ch/badges-interviews

Goals for Building CommunityHow do we acknowledge, support and connect our largely face to face community online and in social networks? How do we remove Open.Michigan as the gatekeeper or bottleneck around open behavior?

What Motivates AcademicsI want to share my knowledge and increase the visibility of my work.I want to build my reputation as an expert in my field.I want to be promoted within my field and be compensated for my efforts.I want to improve the impact of my domain knowledge.I want to help the world and contribute to society.

I want to intellectually explore topics that interest me.I want to be gainfully employed and establish a successful career.I want to build relationships through shared experiences.I want to help the world and contribute to society.

I want to build professional skills and use them to support my institution.I want to increase the visibility and use of my work.I want to be promoted within my field and be compensated for my efforts.I want to help the world and contribute to society.

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STUDENTSSTAFF

Recognition, but Not Reward

These words of motivation:

share, gain visibility, build reputation, get promotion, make an impact, create relationships, contribute to society...

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It’s Always a Process

Badges Here, Badges There

http://open.umich.edu/connect/badges

Open Season

thanks!