Heywire8 Think Tank/Wellington/Action plan

To be completed during the Wellington Think Tank .....

Concerns / Issues / Questions
{student workload etc} {add links here}
 * Will OER generate corporate interest in polishing peer quality education materials?
 * Will all users want the same OER?
 * To what extent is OER driven by student needs?
 * Can WE be more user friendly?
 * To what extent can students be included in the generation of OER?
 * To what extent will the growth of OER make it challenging for teachers to select OER? {Paradox of Success} - Community is important
 * What kind of learning design tools are required to support the design of OER?
 * What problem is OER is solving for us; leadership, Board, institution, teachers, students?
 * Explaining the legal frameworks in which they, the teachers/developers of OER, can operate?
 * Develop a common language and advocacy and explanation of CClicensing
 * Is there a tipping point in the range of CC permissions/licences?
 * Relationship between copyright law and employment contracts
 * What role does OER play in generating and/or solving future problems?
 * What new problems does OER invite us to create? {one problem it creates is exclusivity vs abundance}
 * To what extent does OER get hijacked as a brand?
 * Multiplicity of sources solving the same problem {open source movement}
 * Communication between developers working on similar problems
 * How does OER work more effectively with existing communities?
 * How do we satisfy early adopters who want to use OER with low inventory?
 * How do you turn consumers into donaters?
 * How do we identify the people we want to shoulder tap?
 * How do we ensure quality with the early exemplars?
 * What is the OER maturation model? {car model}
 * How do we know about the gaps? {analysis of search queries, mapping of the curriculum}
 * What are the opportunities to redesign the curriculum {not big C Curriculum} through OER?
 * How should OER support and promote interoperability/portability?
 * Teacher uncertainties re infringement of copyright {sharing existing materials}
 * How can OER avoid the public perception or poor quality / being second rate?
 * How can OER leverage its visibly iterative to inform pedalogical understanding?
 * How can OER and technology support and improve teaching?
 * How can OER and technology support and improve learning outcomes?
 * How does OER support professional development in creation and use of OER?
 * How can OER support and help the mission of CC?
 * What are the implementation and/or opportunity costs/benefits of OER?
 * What is the relationship and/or role between OER and different modes of delivery? {e-learning/distance learning}
 * How does OER champion communities causes and perceptions of whose quality?
 * How can teachers be enabled through OER to whatever we decide we want teachers to do?
 * How does OER mitigate against the reusable paradox?

What should we do and how will we do it?

 * List potential resource sources {in kind/cash}
 * AKO Aotearoa
 * ENSI {teacher education}
 * Negotiate release of all rights reserved material under CC licences, eg eCDF Projects, TKI
 * NZ subject associations
 * Law faculties at TEIs
 * Publishers
 * Learning Media
 * Promoting OER as a research topic
 * Correspondence School materials {explore to be released under free content licenses suggest by the lovely Wayne with the beautiful accent.}
 * Corporate Sponsorships {Corporate Citizenship}
 * Mobilizing research students in teacher education
 * OER donations in lieu of free services
 * Cluster and categorize and prioritize the questions, including questions from HeyWire8 1
 * Monitor developments and thinking around relicensing and reuse of public sector information
 * Monitor developments in the open data space
 * Run Open Everything events in NZ
 * Run a WE session at DEANZ, April 2010
 * Support in identifying OER Ambassadors at NZ institutions
 * Ask professional staff organizations to what extent they can potentially support OER
 * Conzul, CAUDIT,
 * Letter to Gordon - ACODE
 * Letter to DEANZ
 * Letter to ALTC {Australian Learning and Teaching Council}
 * Collaborate with CCLearn and DiscoverEd
 * Model, support, training for Adult education community (Playcentres, early childhood education, local government models, world vision)?
 * High profile advocacy role
 * List of tasks / option to assign, volunteer names, perform by date.
 * install - dotproject