OERu/Planning/Course approval and quality working group

'This group has been amalgamated with the Curriculum and Programme of Study working group to form the Curriculum, Programme of Study and Quality'' working group to improve efficiency and avoid duplication of effort as per decision of the OERu Management Committee. This page is kept for historical reasons.'''

Quick Links to course design templates and samples

 * Courses currently offered or under development: http://oeru.org/courses
 * Design template 1 (Course planning homepage): http://wikieducator.org/OERu/Planning/2015_course_development/Course_Summary_2015_template
 * Design template 2 (Design Blueprint inc Learning Outcomes and assessment): http://wikieducator.org/OERu/Planning/2015_course_development/Design_blueprint_2015_template
 * Sample OERu audit of available resources: http://wikieducator.org/ResearchMethods/ReviewOERs
 * Sample course designed as series of pages in the wiki (use wiki as content management system): http://wikieducator.org/MUN/Outline
 * Sample course after being run through the "snapshot tool" which applies a corporate css to make attractive pages to present to the students: http://wikieducator.org/course/MUN/MUN/

Aims of the Working Group

 * Design and implement a streamlined process for nominating OERu courses which contributes to building the OERu programme of study incorporating a peer review element for feedback.
 * Develop quality instruments for both the design and review OERu courses that include minimum quality standards and essential inclusions for OERu courses
 * Develop a streamlined process of approving nominated OERu courses which use the quality instruments, as well as guidelines for open and early sharing of ideas to support collaboration, re-use of materials and multiple credit pathways via OER partners.

Dependencies
 * Liaise with the Credit transfer and course articulation advisory service to ensure that local requirements for credit transfer and course articulation incorporated into the OERu quality standards to maximise opportunities for course recognition in the network.
 * Liaise with the Curriculum and programme of study working group to maximise alignment of course nominations with the OERu programme(s) of study.
 * Liaise with the OERu partners & course development manual to incorporate course approval guidelines in the OERu partners and course development manual.

Working Group 2015

 * Sarah Lambert (Convener) Manager, Open Education, University of Wollongong slambert@uow.edu.au
 * Wayne Mackintosh
 * Dr Marcus Harmes, University of Southern Queensland. Marcus is the examiner and course developer of OER1001 (formerly AST1000), the first prototype OERu undergraduate offering.  He is presently working with Tim McCallum at USQ to enhance the delivery and pedagogy of our existing OERu course offering.
 * Mr Mmushi Sombane, Junior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of South Africa sombamn@unisa.ac.za
 * Steve	Phillips, Assessment Strategist, Centre for the Assessment of Learning,	Thomas Edison State College sphillips@tesc.edu
 * Meg Goodine, Manager, Learning Technology, Institute for Innovation and Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (INSTL, Kwantlen Polytechnic University	Meg.Goodine@kpu.ca
 * Leslie Johnson, Instructional Designer, Portage College,leslie.johnson@portagecollege.ca
 * Andy Brown, Head of Academic Development, University of the Highlands and Islands, andy.brown@uhi.ac.uk
 * Rebecca Awdry, Manager, Academic Quality & Development, University of Canberra, Rebecca.Awdry@canberra.ed.au
 * Jim Mullaney, Academic Engagement Developer, Curtin University, jim.mullaney@curtin.edu.au
 * Patrina Law, Head of Third Party Online Commissioning, The Open University, patrina.law@open.ac.uk
 * Hannah Gore, Senior Producer: Social & Syndication, The Open University, hannah.gore@open.ac.uk
 * Veronique Olin, Learning Designer, Otago Polytechnic,	veronique.olin@op.ac.nz

Working Group 2014

 * Sarah Lambert (Convener) Manager, Open Education, University of Wollongong slambert@uow.edu.au
 * Wayne Mackintosh
 * Jo Smedley University of South Wales
 * Dr Marcus Harmes, University of Southern Queensland. Marcus is the examiner and course developer of OER1001 (formerly AST1000), the first prototype OERu undergraduate offering.  He is presently working with Tim McCallum at USQ to enhance the delivery and pedagogy of our existing OERu course offering.


 * Mattheus Vorster, Head - Quality Assurance for the School of Computing, University of South Africa vorstmj@unisa.ac.za
 * Dr Richard Alan Northover,Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa	northra@unisa.ac.za
 * Mr Mmushi Sombane, Junior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of South Africa sombamn@unisa.ac.za
 * Steve	Phillips, Assessment Strategist, Centre for the Assessment of Learning,	Thomas Edison State College sphillips@tesc.edu
 * Meg Goodine, Manager, Learning Technology, Institute for Innovation and Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (INSTL, Kwantlen Polytechnic University	Meg.Goodine@kpu.ca
 * Dr. Irwin DeVries, Director, Curriculum Development, Thompson Rivers University Open Learning Idevries@tru.ca
 * Dr Glenn Mitchell, Senior Lecturer, History Program, Faculty of Arts,University of Wollongong	 gmitchel@uow.edu.au
 * Mika Hoffman, Executive Director, Test Development Services, Centre for Educational Measurement, Excelsior College Mhoffman@excelsior.edu
 * Dr Diane Purvey, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Diane.Purvey@kpu.ca

Discussion list

 * Course approval and quality discussion list on groups.oeru.org

Resource links

 * Proposal for action: Course approvals and quality assurance
 * Proposal for action: Curriculum working group
 * Proposal for action: Leveraging open textbooks for building a programme of study
 * Proposal for action: Peer review of assessment
 * OpenUpEd quality label self-assessment
 * State of the Art Review of Quality Issues related to Open Educational Resources (OER), 2014 by Camilleri, Ehlers &amp; Pawlowski

Reference guideline links

 * (eCcampusAlberta Quality eTookit: http://quality.ecampusalberta.ca/ KPU's adapted version: http://kpu.ca/teaching-and-learning/resources#standards )
 * Not All Rubrics Are Equal: A Review of Rubrics for Evaluating the Quality of Open Educational Resources, Yuan M & Recker, M. 2015 IRRODL Vol 16. No. 5.

Meetings

 * 1) /First Meeting/ 2014
 * 2) /Second Meeting/ 2014
 * 3) /Third Meeting/ 2014
 * 4) First Meeting July 2015

2016 KPIs
KPIs transferred to Curriculum, programme of study and quality group

Active tasks

 * 2015 Course Approval and Quality Group Annual Report
 * Review the Course approval mechanisms at the members' organisations
 * Review quality frameworks for fully online courses
 * Liaise with Curriculum group for an understanding of Priority discipline/course areas that need to be provided globally to meet OERu aspirations
 * Review OpenUpEd quality label process
 * Review options for centrally posted call for EOI for subjects needed (ie a call for courses to be developed, rather than developing a process that relies solely on partners to nominate based on capacity or local priorities)

Completed tasks

 * Recruit additional members with broad expertise
 * Agree objectives for course approval and quality group