OERu/OERu 16.10 Meeting/Group 2 staff development

Task: Develop proposal for action to improve OERu organisational and staff development

Existing resources


 * DS4OER course - Course on how to design and develop OER collaboratively using the OERu publishing model. Historically offered once each year
 * OCL4Ed - Course on copyright, open licensing and OER. Has been offered many times, although not during 2016.
 * Concept ideas for OERu Induction mOOC

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

= Who needs SD? =

What staff are we talking about?

 * Academics
 * Technologists
 * Pedagogic support staff – learning units etc


 * Intermediaries advocates third sector organisations NGOs etc

Long term

 * Career structure and reward is required ‘behind’ and in support of open and / or OERu
 * Move from ‘not invented here to proudly borrowed from there’
 * Potentially beyond this project - Some fundamental staff development such as - rethinking owner of content, role of student, co-creators of the curriculum, vertically integrated projects, supporting staff to rethink Learning outcomes. In short – developing digital literacy in staff and students.

Medium term

 * The legal requirement (copyright, accessibility etc.) materials are available already
 * Within an organisation what is the route to work with open and / or OERu
 * Open badge to Open practitioners? To demonstrate level of engagement / capability builds on Open University’s ‘becoming an open educator’ materials part of staff induction? Openlearn works Build on existing schemes such as HEA
 * How to get open materials through the internal system
 * Look at open as part of role description ‘what is a lecturer’
 * Skillsets for developing courses online – move from what am I going to do? To what are the students going to do?

Short-term

 * ‘Time to move beyond the heroic champion’s time to make this normal’
 * This needs to be a focus -Academic staff – how to make use of OER and the tools and systems pedagogy/technology; simple ‘what next’ development sessions/materials. 
 * Staff development for Admin staff – how to deal with OERu students before and after them becoming Institutional students
 * Camtesia’ session capture style demonstrations for available tools