OERu/OERu 14.11 Meeting/Report/Session 6 Virtual Group

SESSION 6: IMPROVING OERu PROCESSES

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QUESTION 1: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROGRESSING APPROVAL OF GUIDELINES FOR CREDIT TRANSFER AND ARTICULATION

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QUESTION 2: PARTNERS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT MANUAL

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• Encourage collaboration, with development and frequent refinement in the open
  • Just do it - get a starting point down and refine, the version tracking records contributions and allows recovering earlier revisions if desired
  • Stress how Internet scale may allow analytics to guide course design/layout/technology testing and evolution at levels not practical in a single institution
  • have the option to consider a "course" as a live process rather than a static entity
    • micro courses might encourage this agile style development
  • Manual should be a living document, refined as we discover things that work. Suggest but don't codify, at least until we have more experience. Prefer convention over specification.
• Provide guidance in searching existing OERs and reusing/recontextualizing/recombining
• Explain the flexibility of open file formats facilitating reuse and deployment in different technologies
• Provide guidance in seeking out openly licensed assets (images, video, audio)
• or asking original creators to relicense their work more openly for reuse
• How to encourage faculty to make helping with OERu project part of their courseactivities or assessments e.g. computer students
• links to videoclips of folks already involved and meetup sessions for support

QUESTION 3: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OERu QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES

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QUESTION 3: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COMMUNICATING OERu STUDY OPTIONS, SERVICES AND PRICING

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