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OER Handbook/discrete outline

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This outline is based on Wayne's suggestions on the discussion page on the merged outline.

Introducing OER

Aims Subsections Prerequisite Units Intended Target Audience Scope
To provide a brief overview of OERs and why they're important. * What OERs are 
   * How the field evolved (Brief history)
   * Why they're important (Value proposition)
   * Key questions for decision makers
   * Key questions for educators (Advantages / disadvantages)
   * Summary
None * Newbies 
   * Educators
   * Policy makers
30 minute learning resource

Background

Aims Subsections Prerequisite Units Intended Target Audience Scope
* Inform learners about different licenses including Creative Commons and GFDL 
 * Explain license incompatibility issues
 * Provide a project planning document
 * Show how to get buy-in from management
 * List ways to monitor and evaluate; measure success
License content
 * License compatibility
 * Creative Commons
 * GFDL
 * How to select a license
 User stories

 Quality assurance mechanisms in peer-collaboration models

 General notes on project implementation

 * 4.1 Project planning document
 * 4.2 Making the case
 * 4.3 Monitoring and evaluation; measuring success
 5 Requirements, constraints and enablers

 * 5.1 Buy-in from senior management at your institution
 * 5.2 Embed use and publication of open content and materials in university policies
 * 5.3 Link to national or provincial policy goals
 * 5.4 Connect with others outside the institution
 ** List of people willing to help (both volunteer and pro organizations)
 ** Centralized list of listservs, research orgs and other groups of interest
 ** Interactive global map of resources
 Funding and sustainability
Introduction, but not mandatory. * Teachers (for the first half especially) 
 * Educators
 * Policy makers

Get OER

Aims Subsections Prerequisite Units Intended Target Audience Scope
* Inform content creators of
possible resources for OER development 
 * Explain which formats are better 
for OER development and why
 * Explain accessibility issues that 
should frame a search for OER material
Searching and finding UNESCO 7.1.1 - 7.1.4 
 List of resource sites
 * Wikipedia
 * WikiEducator
 * Wikiversity
 * Connexions
 * Flickr
 * Creative Commons search
 * Internet archive
 * Project Gutenberg
 Preferred formats (interoperability)

 Accessibility
 User stories
Introduction and licensing section of Background * Teachers 
 * Educators
 * Policy makers (although for this section 
 they are probably a secondary audience)

Publish OER

Aims Subsections Prerequisite Units Intended Target Audience Scope
Give considerations on publishing strategies
 Describe the infrastructure necessary for publishing independently

 Provide options for monitoring

 List possible sites for publishing
6.1 Different publishing strategies (learner-centric vs. lecturer-focused)
 6.2 Deciding which content to publish

 6.3 Licensing guidelines 
(refer back to licensing section of Background)

 6.4 Training and support

 6.5 The project team

 6.6 Technology

 * 6.6.1 Publishing platforms/Repositories
 * 6.6.2 Web traffic analysis
 * 6.6.3 Standards and interoperability
 * 6.6.4 Course and content production tools
 * 6.6.5 Social learning, Social networking tools
 6.7 Case-studies and examples

 6.8 Step-by-step
Introduction, licensing section of Background * Teachers 
 * Educators
 * Policy makers

Use Content

Aims Subsections Prerequisite Units Intended Target Audience Scope
Provide best practices across multiple platforms
(including low bandwidth/offline)
 Give information about localizing to local technical, 
 cultural and education contexts

 Give information and best practices for remixing
Using the content
 * Upload/import course materials into 
 a course management system/virtual learning environment
 * Authoring courses front content across many sources
 * Best practices
 * Accessibility
 * Low bandwidth/mobile versions
 * User stories
 * 7.2 Local hosting of materials
 * 7.3 Integrating OER in teaching and learning
 ** 7.3.1 Learner perspective
 ** 7.3.2 Lecturer perspective
 Localize and remix content

 * Creating a curriculum and bundling OER/Resources
 * OER/Resources translation
 * Linking between versions
 * Low bandwidth/mobile versions
 * Offline versions
 * Creating a custom course (for oneself as a learner)
 * Tools
 ** Make-a-Path
 ** Popular social bookmarking
 ** eXe
 ** Burrokeet
 ** Audacity
 ** Dotsub
 Preferred formats

 Accessibility

 User stories
Introduction and Background * Teachers 
 * Educators
 * Policy makers

Conclusion

Aims Subsections Prerequisite Units Intended Target Audience Scope
Summarize OER handbook 
 Encourage readers to assist in OER creation
 Provide additional resources
Encouragement and practice 
 Additional resources
 UNESCO 8 The Future of Open Education
At least one of the previous sections * Teachers 
 * Educators
 * Policy makers
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