OERu/OERu 16.10 Meeting/Group 1 OERu ambassadors

Task: Scope OERu Ambassadors initiative to assist with partner recruitment and sharing information about OERu

Existing resources

 * Example of the WikiEducator Ambassadors
 * [ OERu Slideshow]
 * Lead signup (Will associate leads with corresponding Mautic campaign)
 * oeru.org/Invite - various options
 * Stay connected (available on every page) - subscribers will be assigned to Newsletter list
 * Partner recruitment video' - (Will assign lead to professionally developed email drip campaign providing information, 1 email each week for 4 weeks.)

Remember to add any issues that your group would like to be tabled at the CEOs meeting on the [ issues list].

Who should be OERu ambassadors?

 * Students
 * Students testimonials and learning artifacts
 * Also alumni who might want to support a specific course or target student group
 * Graduate students, researchers
 * Employers
 * Instructional designers, TLC staff
 * Faculty
 * As Developers
 * As Researchers
 * As Teachers
 * Partner institutions
 * Administrators

What will OERu ambassadors do? How will it work?

 * Collect narratives, data, artifacts, as per the following:
 * Students - stories, experience and outcomes - both novice students and experienced who have completed courses or certificates, include in student newspapers, need the student lense. Also students who use OERu courses in their own traditional program,
 * Faculty - as developers – think about open boundary courses – networks outside of the classroom – as researchers as well – e.g. design based research (design of courses in OERu environments), also beneficial learning for F-F courses, new pedagogical understandings for discipline based research, builds communities, pedagogical research within the disciplines, benefits of adoption of OERs for under-advantaged
 * Instructional designers, teaching and learning centre staff – overcoming design challenges, new open pedagoeis, new tools and techniques, new communities – brings IDs and faculty developers together, enlarges the practice of developing and learning
 * Administrators - raise more awareness in their own institutions and elsewhere

What actions are needed to implement OERu ambassadors?

 * Finish MVP and get testimonials, stories
 * Obtain data and evidence to start presenting
 * Promote research, conference, publication and presentation opportunities
 * Have resources open licensed and available for everyone to use
 * Link blogs and twitter feeds

Decision recommendations

 * Institutional representatives build these ideas into their institutional action plans
 * Have common OERu area to share ideas, stories, resources and to share their activities