The Open Umbrella

[Web-learning]

Tracking the Open Umbrella Project and Progress

Project Lead:

Derek Moore | @Web-learning

Mentor:

Harini Lakshminarayanan | @harinilakshminarayanan

Welcome to OLS-8! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program 🎉.

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Week 1: Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor for 30 minutes
• Create an account on GitHub
• Check if you have access to the HackMD notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in your [shared notes] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hdG0LKscx1_3gaiPr_316RHDJr-k2WwDOFzhxoA-axI/edit?usp=sharing)
• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor
  If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2: Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

• Create an issue on the OLS-4 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.

• Draft a brief vision statement using your goals

  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful

• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call

• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3: Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
• Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• Start your Roadmap
• Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

Before Week 4: Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and later

• Meet mentor
• Create a GitHub repository for your project
• Add the link to your repository in your issue
• Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
• Link to your README in a comment on this issue
• Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
• Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-4 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

Week 6

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 7

• Meet mentor

Week 8

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 9

• Meet mentor

Week 10

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 11

• Meet mentor

Week 12

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 13

• Meet mentor

Week 14

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 15

• Meet mentor

[Web-learning]

Vision Statement for the Open Umbrella

To work alongside academics and teachers who want to make critical, pragmatic and sustainable use of educational technology among their students. To collectively offer guidance and support and establish educational norms that promote the public good.

What you’re doing

Detken Scheepers from Pretoria University conceptualized the self evaluation app which is dubbed the Open Umbrella. Together we defined eight entry points or dimensions for improving a remote, online or hybrid course. The app uses the eight categories and frames them as panels on an umbrella.

• Assessment
• Teaching and learning strategies
• Learning activities
• Content
• Communication
• Administration
• Design
• Support Strategies

The Open Umbrella is a structure for academics to reflect upon their current courses practices. They self-identify their own levels within the eight categories and record these results as benchmarks, for future reference. I took responsibility for fleshing out these entry points and generating a field guide. I'd like to see this self evaluation app and field guide completely open. Place it on github, to support further ideation, prototyping development

Who you’re doing it for, your audience

I'm doing this for myself. I still think I have something to contribute. And I hope to be joined by like minded people (academics, ed techies, learning designers). From around the world.

Why you’re doing this, the impact or change you hope to make

I believe that higher education should be for the public good. But I'm seeing that HEI's online efforts have been captured by commercial ed tech. Or institutional capacity is being outsourced. And have become beholden to these big foreign companies. I'm looking for departments, faculties or perhaps institutions who wish to resist. Build their own internal skills and capabilities

[AletteS]

Hi Web-learning, this looks like a really relevant project, I particularly like the idea of the badges.

[Web-learning]

Thanks Alette for taking a look. Much appreciated. Yes, I have started to see if I can map a variety of open badges onto the open umbrella. These badges are still very much in draft form and suffer from too much jargon. But perhaps they give an idea of what I am aiming at.