OERu 13.10 report

PROPOSALS FOR ACHIEVING A FISCALLY SUSTAINABLE AND SCALABLE OERU NETWORK

Partnerships, or Parallel courses
Faculty collaboration across partner institutions-create onilne mechanisms / platforms
Encourage ongoing / collaborative research
Gathering evidence for continuous learning opportunities development through the collection of data : learning analytics. What is working and what is not?

Examples from Washington State- availability open resources become ensconced in law
Put a call out to those with various areas of specialization interested in collaboratively developing a textbook for their area. International participation of content experts (moving away from single institutional textbook development).
COUP Framework is an example of institutional participation in developing Open Textbook. There is a study highlights the impact of open textbook on students' learning outcome and teachers' perceptions based on COUP framework :[[1]]

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Professional Development online program in web literacies (open ed best practices,digital literacies for teaching / learning, PLN formation, etc.) for educators-need this immediately for partner institutions
Developmental Education (Student Success,English, ESL, Math, Science-Bio, Physics, Chem) ABE and Qualifying courses as free, open online access to post secondary ed (per Ministry of Advanced Ed BC)-reach those who can not come to a campus / also leverage those faculty within institutions who are already teaching online and / or in blended modes - design, development and delivery (see U of T Mooc Design Basics:)
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Open design models / best practices guidelines
Take current OERu courses (being launched) and chunking them for 1 credit: scaffolding for learners. What would this look like?
How can the current courses be Internationalized? (if they are not already) and what does Internationalizing a course mean?
On timeline for OERu partner to complete 2 courses, they & OERu would need to know how much work they need to do in order to meet pedagagogical quality standards and deal with tech issues, like file formats etc.
Does student feedback data on their course / program study needs exist already? Or can it be gathered via course evaluations or other means? A guide and/or calendar sounds like a good starting point.

Following up on the idea of corps of professionals supporting OERU
Where to begin?Developing a central place for conversations- the Wiki?
Implement an Action Research project (or design based study) that enables stakeholders to implement, reflect and revise practices (i.e. Stakeholders: administrators, faculty/instructor course developers, IT, Instructional Designers, Librarians, feedback from learners etc)