Open.Michigan is a University of Michigan (UM) initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to find, use, and create openly licensed content and provides a space for them to share educational content with the global learning community. Incubated in UM’s Medical School, Open.Michigan now encompasses the other health sciences schools, the School of Information (iSchool), and MLibrary and has become a full-blown UM effort that collaborates with universities worldwide on open educational resources.
Key to all of this has been Emily Puckett Rodgers, Open.Michigan’s open education coordinator from 2010 through 2012. “Open education is all about transparency, collaboration, and participation,” says Rodgers, who became special projects librarian at the University Library in January 2013.
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