Talk:Dimensions of openness in education/Open policy/The value of open policy to national governments
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| Introductory text in the "open policy" section | 2 | 03:22, 31 August 2015 |
| Assignments related to policy development | 2 | 03:20, 31 August 2015 |
| The presentation on the policy-making process | 0 | 07:04, 6 May 2015 |
Note that the idea of copying and pasting the text from "CC at 10" into the intro of this section came from David Wiley's course. This course might require something different as an intro, though. I just don't really know how. I suppose if policy were presented as something powerful, requiring a lot of thought, and sometimes coming from the people rather than the government (to show just how much influence people can have over policy) would be a start.
Could we use some of the nifty graphics from the State of the commons to introduce the topic? It highlights the connection between OER and policy in a friendly way.
That could work. You've got me thinking now...
I think the challenge here is to show the participants the process of policy development in a way that makes it feel relevant to them and not intimidating. To this end, it would be useful to present policies in a simple way.
We could start by explaining the policy-making process and emphasizing the role of the public so thta the participants see the how they can participate:
Here's a short follow-up document on educational policy development. Then, we could show this short and simple document on writing a policy by using a link.
At this point, the participants could be asked to analyse a section of any one of the policies at the institution level, the government level, or the international level. Perhaps a few questions could guide the analysis of each of these types of policies. It would also be nice to compare and contrast these three types of policies in terms of how they are developed, who is involved, and who they affect.
Capstone assignment: Get the participants to write part of a policy using these resources:
This guide is about how to write a policy based on the Paris Declaration.
This article provides a template for writing an open education policy for an institution
This template for writing Government policy for OER use is very elaborate and thoroughly explained.
The COL link to policy template is broken, tried to find an alternative, but couldn't.
I think I found a link to replace the broken one for a template for development of government policy on OERs:
http://oldwebsite.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/OER_CountryPolicyDevelopmentTemplate.pdf
COL recently reorganized its entire site, so links to their resources need to be replaced.
There are still a lot of formatting changes to be made to the presentation. I'm just using Google Slides for the moment because it's the quickest way I could think of to insert the presentation diirectly into the course. I'm fine with using any other format that is usually used with wikieducator.
Note that there are multiple-choice questions at the end of the presentation. They're not atrociously terrible, but they do lack feedback. I cuold add feedback later, and perhaps cut down on the number of questions.
