Open Michigan vs StoryWeaver
Open Michigan
open.umich.eduStoryWeaver
storyweaver.org.inSide by side
| Figure | Open Michigan | StoryWeaver |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Open Educational Resource Platforms | 7.4 (#19) | 7.9 (#10) |
| Audience | Open Michigan encourages scholars and students to share their work and describes its service as supporting the university community, Michigan residents, and the broader public. | The platform is described as a place for parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators to create reading resources for children. |
| Founded | 2007 | 2015 |
| Purpose | Open Michigan helps the University of Michigan community share research, teaching, and creative work with people beyond campus. | StoryWeaver is a digital platform of open-access, multilingual storybooks for children to learn and practise reading. |
| Support | The site directs visitors to a contact form or [email protected] for accessibility requests and says it will provide an alternate format promptly. | The privacy policy directs users with questions about its practices or dealings with the site to contact StoryWeaver by email. |
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In their own words
Open Michigan
Open Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative for sharing research, teaching and creative work beyond campus. It offers services and expertise in open educational resources, open data and open publications, and lets visitors search for material from within and outside the university for teaching and research. Its collection includes course materials, videos, lectures, student work and other educational resources from U-M faculty, students, staff and partner institutions. Nearly all of its educational resources are openly licensed for reuse under Creative Commons. The initiative can help publish syllabi, courses and learning modules, promote educational resources, and make data publicly available. It describes open data as publicly available for use, reuse and distribution, and open access scholarship as available to read online for free. Open Michigan is a partnership of the University Library and Health Information Technology and Services, and began in 2007. It notes that older resources may not work well with screen readers and many videos lack sufficient captions; remediation is underway. Hosted content published after January 1, 2017 receives accessibility reviews, with a goal of WCAG 2.0 AA compliance.
StoryWeaver
StoryWeaver is a free web platform from Pratham Books for reading and creating multilingual children’s stories. Readers can browse material for early and more fluent readers, including stories about math, science, history, and emotional intelligence. Parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators can create reading resources: users can write storybooks, choose openly licensed artwork, and publish their work. Translation tools help produce versions in other languages, with transliteration support for 12 languages and dictionary support in over 100. Translation can also be done offline and synced later. Readers can save stories to an Offline Library or download them as web-resolution PDFs, A4 print-ready files, or ePub files. Stories and illustrations use CC BY 4.0; Readalongs and videos use CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. StoryWeaver is free to read, create, translate, download, share, and print. Its released code is MIT-licensed, with a Rails backend and ReactJS frontend.