OERu/OERu 17.10 Meeting/CEOs agenda


 * Registration: 8.30am, York room, Mezzanine level, Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto.
 * Start: 9.00am
 * Coffee break: 11.00am
 * Lunch: 1.00pm

Agenda

 * 1) Welcome and introductions
 * 2) Aims of the meeting
 * 3) Review of the Terms of Reference and office bearers.
 * 4) * Terms of Reference
 * 5) * Office bearers
 * 6) * Vacancy - Deputy Chair (Africa) / Deputy Chair (Middle East)
 * 7) Progress report
 * 8) * OERu 1st year of study
 * 9) OERu Strategic priorities
 * 10) * Partner perspective (Clive Mulholland)
 * 11) * OER Foundation perspective (Jim Taylor)
 * 12) *# Prioritise the consolidation and evaluation of the free 1st Year of Study initiative and associated exit qualifications prior to allocating resources to 2nd and 3rd year offerings
 * 13) *# Explore how OERu might achieve a leadership role in transnational micro-credentialling and the issuing of associated open badges mapped to transcript credit.
 * 14) *# Prioritise learner support initiatives, including enhancing the learner support site, trialling P2PU Learning Circles, and refining and implementing Academic Volunteers International
 * 15) *# Review and update the open business model to include the potential deployment in mainstream institutional operations of not only OERu open courseware, but also the OERu open source technology infrastructure
 * 16) * Articulate what OERu success looks like for partners represented at the CEO's meeting for the next planning cycle (2018 - 2020)
 * 17) * Agree approval process for OERu strategic plan (2018 - 2020)
 * 18) Decision proposals
 * 19) * Publish project plan for MVP launch of 23 courses for the OERu 1st year of study by December 2017 (Target: 11 courses during 2017 and 12 courses during 2018) consistent with 2015 CEOs recommendation for a "soft launch" pursuing realistic but conservative targets as the OERu model builds brand awareness and collects data from the process evaluation to inform future decision-making.
 * 20) *# Phase 1: Learning in a Digital Age (February 2018)
 * 21) *# Phase 2: Principles of Management, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, and Introduction to Project Management (May 2018)
 * 22) *# Phase 3: 4 courses (Sept 2018)
 * 23) *# Phase 4: 4 courses (Feb 2019)
 * 24) *# Phase 5: 4 courses (May 2019)
 * 25) *# Phase 6: 4 courses (Sept 2019)
 * 26) * Implement marketing plan
 * 27) *# Adopt a new learner-focused elevator pitch: Change your life’s course one course at a time. Begin your degree at higher learning institutions from all around the world. Start for free, start today.
 * 28) *# Create personas from existing data that we can use to create the marketing brief (November 2017)
 * 29) *# Prepare press releases to announce 1st year of study (December 2017)
 * 30) *# Finalise landing page for marketing content for learners on the oeru.org website: this includes graphics that tell people how to apply, how to register, how to build a credential, how to use micro-credentials. (December 2018)
 * 31) *# Prepare Google Addwords campaign - $10,000 per month (December 2018 - subject to input from partner institutions).
 * 32) *# Implement lead nurturing email program to announce the first year of study via newsletter communications (First announcement January 2018, reminder beginning February 2018)
 * 33) *# Draft marketing brief to inform marketing strategy for remaining courses (March 2018)
 * 34) * Complete the Process Evaluation and initiate the Analytics Project with a view to expediting the planning and implementation of the Product Evaluation (October 2017)
 * 35) * Rationalise the OERu organisational structures
 * 36) *# Three working groups reporting to the OER Management Committee: Curriculum and Quality, Technology, Marketing and Recruitment. ( Collapse Curriculum, Program of Study, Quality and Credit Transfer into Curriculum and Quality)
 * 37) *# Establish a Transnational Advisory Group (TAG)
 * 38) * Improve learner support
 * 39) *# Work with P2Pu Learning Circles to support selected OERu courses
 * 40) *# Scope what a pay for support or pay for tutoring service may look like and how it could be viable
 * 41) *# Research what the OERu learner support services may need and what OERu can offer
 * 42) Issues for CEOs meeting
 * 43) * Should OERu provide support / consulting services to partners?
 * 44) Risk register
 * 45) * Review draft risk register
 * 46) Conclusion