OERu/OERu 16.10 Meeting/Group 1 OERu ambassadors

Task: Scope OERu Ambassadors initiative to assist with partner recruitment and sharing information about OERu

Existing resources

• Example of the WikiEducator Ambassadors
• OERu Slideshow
• Lead signup (Will associate leads with corresponding Mautic campaign)
  1. oeru.org/Invite - various options
  2. Stay connected (available on every page) - subscribers will be assigned to Newsletter list
  3. Partner recruitment video' - (Will assign lead to professionally developed email drip campaign providing information, 1 email each week for 4 weeks.)

Remember to add any issues that your group would like to be tabled at the CEOs meeting on the issues list.

Who should be OERu ambassadors?

• Students
  • Students testimonials and learning artifacts
  • Also alumni who might want to support a specific course or target student group
  • Graduate students, researchers
• Employers
• Instructional designers, TLC staff
• Faculty
  • As Developers
  • As Researchers
  • As Teachers
• Partner institutions
• Administrators

What will OERu ambassadors do? How will it work?

• Collect narratives, data, artifacts, as per the following:
• Students - stories, experience and outcomes - both novice students and experienced who have completed courses or certificates, include in student newspapers, need the student lense. Also students who use OERu courses in their own traditional program,
• Faculty - as developers – think about open boundary courses – networks outside of the classroom – as researchers as well – e.g. design based research (design of courses in OERu environments), also beneficial learning for F-F courses, new pedagogical understandings for discipline based research, builds communities, pedagogical research within the disciplines, benefits of adoption of OERs for under-advantaged
• Instructional designers, teaching and learning centre staff – overcoming design challenges, new open pedagoeis, new tools and techniques, new communities – brings IDs and faculty developers together, enlarges the practice of developing and learning
• Administrators - raise more awareness in their own institutions and elsewhere

What actions are needed to implement OERu ambassadors?

• Finish MVP and get testimonials, stories
• Obtain data and evidence to start presenting
• Promote research, conference, publication and presentation opportunities
• Have resources open licensed and available for everyone to use
• Link blogs and twitter feeds

Decision recommendations

• Institutional representatives build these ideas into their institutional action plans
• Have common OERu area to share ideas, stories, resources and to share their activities