Heywire8 Think Tank/Action plan





Concerns / Issues / Questions

 * How do we know the OER approach is effective for our learners?
 * Keeping up with technology advances
 * Are OER development and delivery processes different from traditional approaches?
 * Changes in learning approaches associated with OER?
 * Does OER assume pedagogical paradigm?
 * OER and practices (OERP)?
 * Quality is contextual
 * The potential of OER to improve quality
 * How do we convince educators of the value proposition of OER?
 * How do we recognise teaching for promotion -- Is there a link between PBRF and OER development?
 * AKO - OER?
 * Peer review approach and scalability challenges (doesn't scale well)
 * Peer review is important for buy-in
 * Notion of centralising on WikiEducator is problematic - networked distribution on the Internet is the way to go
 * In OER is process more important than product?
 * In OER do you develop the "generic" or do you start with the "context" -- what's the most cost effective way?
 * Network neutrality!! Open content should always be delivered through open networks.
 * Should infrastructure be designed for production or consumption?
 * Branding -- is corporate better?
 * More agressive approavhes to managing open content?
 * Constraints and restrictions in hosting content?
 * Where is the school sector?
 * Community kudos is a powerful motivator for OER authors? (eg featured resource on Wikibooks)
 * Time and costs to source high quality images under free content license.
 * "Access to learning is free -- certification costs."

What should we do and how will we do it?





 * Share narratives of the process - Richard's narratives, Warrington School, Digital content strategy narrative - Danny?, Lecturer stories, External stories (COL), PR, advocacy stories
 * Get on the agenda of Regular forums -- TANZ (Robin), ITPNZ Bron, Uni eLearning Directors Group (Bill/Gordon), CC NZ, Wayne to speak about Heywire8 @ eFest, contact participants for inputs, Phil Kerr talking @ eFest, Teachers conferences like ULearn.
 * Work with unions -- OER as model around IP?
 * WikiEducator workshops - Find institutions around NZ to host/support more L4C type workshops around NZ
 * Channel video content - YouTube, BlipTV etc --
 * HERDSA -- start feeding OERs into Herdsa (Stan)
 * How/should we consider quality assurance standards? (It could be that the true open process of OER improves quality and that our older notions get questioned)
 * Andrew Higgins project -- is the Otago story on IP capture (Dan - link to Otago IP case study)
 * Encourage explicit peer review
 * Consider a software development model of iterative improvements
 * Or and/or consider a networked review process where end users provide feedback either through just use, or through ratings and other expressions.
 * Help teachers become self reliant with always updated resources (the photocopier 15 minutes before class analogy)
 * Coordinate a national strategy -- sector wide, national library, institutions, MOE .... particularly on the question of providing local storage (national archive?)
 * Show the private sector new business models that do not threaten.
 * What we do should be inclusive of all sectors and levels.
 * We must develop appropriate and relevant quality processes.
 * We should bring the publishers on board.
 * Involve professional registering bodies.
 * "Engage practitioner networks" - Stanley Frielick
 * Investigate economic models for sustainability.
 * Knowledge sharing/ case studies on OER models, viable approaches etc.
 * OLPC network, Martin Catalyst, David Leeming, funding ....
 * Develop a proposal for contestable earmarked funding for OERs (see British Columbia experience, UNESCO OER initiative, William and Flora Hewlett foundation)
 * Find ways to diversify revenue streams (eg OERs can free up time for other activities).
 * Talk with the sector about the mechanims for OER sharing -- eg ITPNZ.
 * Talk with TEC and project leaders whether we apply CC-BY or CC-BY-SA retrospectively to relevant eCDF projects.
 * Engagement, dialogue with practitioners and students --- talk to student associations, feedback from students, surveys
 * Workshops on copyright -- help educators feel more comfortable.
 * Discussions on nuances of open content licences.