Choose your topic or question

Select a topic you are interested in learning more about, or one on which you consider yourself an expert, even if no one else does

Exercise

Choose your topic or question. If you are known as the go-to person among your friends or family for help with a particular topic area, that might be a good one to choose because once you've compiled some good open resources, it will be easy to share them next time someone comes to you with questions. You could also select a topic you are interested in learning more about, or one on which you consider yourself an expert, even if no one else does.

You can choose any subject you like. Maybe you're a master grower of tomatoes, or you've always wanted to learn more about the history of Earth Day. It's up to you.

Discussion

Discuss whether or not there might be open content that answers your question. Have you looked for resources on this subject before? If so, what kind of resources have you found?

Task Discussion

glsteber said:

I'm going to teach folks how to commute by bicycle during winter. I've seen some good blogs about bicycle commuting in general as well as specific to winter riding.

on Jan. 23, 2013, 6:17 p.m.

Piet said:

Rad. I've done some workshops in my local area on this topic before. Here's a resource that's come out of a few years of workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan -- http://getdowntown.org/Bike/GuidetoWinterBikeCommutinginAnnArbor.

on Jan. 24, 2013, 9:38 a.m. in reply to glsteber
Anonym said:

I decided research in how to desing a web site.

To do this I search in the wiki of many CMS like drupal, wordpress, etc which are open content, also i got some pictures in morguefile a open picture repository

on Nov. 19, 2012, 12:31 a.m.

malicke said:

We'd really appreciate seeing the website that you built with open content; please feel free to share a link.

on Nov. 19, 2012, 10:02 a.m. in reply to Anonym
Jordan C. Seidel said:

My Task: How to develop a course in MOOC?

on Oct. 18, 2012, 5:03 p.m.

malicke said:

What kind of course?

on Nov. 8, 2012, 2:01 p.m. in reply to Jordan C. Seidel

Martina said:

I've just joined this community few days ago, so not much I've learned and known about the course. I haven't decided which open content is become my favorite, but I'm interested in education especially math and science so may be open content about school of education can be my favorite in the future. And how about you ? Do you have favorite one ? 2012/11/9 dmalicke <

on Nov. 11, 2012, 8:57 a.m. in reply to malicke

malicke said:

For math, I think you might be interested in http://www.khanacademy.org/

Open.Michigan also has some resources related to School of Education, but not too much:

http://open.umich.edu/education/soe

And, if I may self promote just a little more, my colleague Kathleen Omollo recently put together a list of our favorite resources for promoting open content:

https://open.umich.edu/blog/2012/11/12/staff-picks-for-media-for-open/

on Nov. 13, 2012, 9:25 a.m. in reply to Martina

Martina said:

Thank you very much for the link that you've given to me, especially http://www.khanacademy.org/. I'm very appreciate that. And I've seen your open content link too, and it's interesting for me. I open a math and science course at my place, and I've been looking for right method to teach math and science to my students. I want to learn more about this open content, and I hope it can open my mind. Thank you once again. Sincerely -Martina 2012/11/13 dmalicke <

on Nov. 13, 2012, 1:21 p.m. in reply to malicke
Laura Hilliger said:

To NC or not NC, that is the question.

on July 26, 2012, 11:02 a.m.