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Exploring opportunities for building a Kiwi collaborative OER initiative

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Bruce with Pam, Stanley and Wayne in background

Colette in the Council Room of Otago Polytechnic

Concerns / Issues / Questions

• How do we know the OER approach is effective for our learners?
• Keeping up with technology advances
• Are OER development and delivery processes different from traditional approaches?
• Changes in learning approaches associated with OER?
• Does OER assume pedagogical paradigm?
• OER and practices (OERP)?
• Quality is contextual
• The potential of OER to improve quality
• How do we convince educators of the value proposition of OER?
• How do we recognise teaching for promotion -- Is there a link between PBRF and OER development?
• AKO - OER?
• Peer review approach and scalability challenges (doesn't scale well)
• Peer review is important for buy-in
• Notion of centralising on WikiEducator is problematic - networked distribution on the Internet is the way to go
• In OER is process more important than product?
• In OER do you develop the "generic" or do you start with the "context" -- what's the most cost effective way?
• Network neutrality!! Open content should always be delivered through open networks.
• Should infrastructure be designed for production or consumption?
• Branding -- is corporate better?
• More agressive approavhes to managing open content?
• Constraints and restrictions in hosting content?
• Where is the school sector?
• Community kudos is a powerful motivator for OER authors? (eg featured resource on Wikibooks)
• Time and costs to source high quality images under free content license.
• "Access to learning is free -- certification costs."

What should we do and how will we do it?

Mark and Nathan

Sarah and Nathan

• Share narratives of the process - Richard's narratives, Warrington School, Digital content strategy narrative - Danny?, Lecturer stories, External stories (COL), PR, advocacy stories
• Get on the agenda of Regular forums -- TANZ (Robin), ITPNZ Bron, Uni eLearning Directors Group (Bill/Gordon), CC NZ, Wayne to speak about Heywire8 @ eFest, contact participants for inputs, Phil Kerr talking @ eFest, Teachers conferences like ULearn.
• Work with unions -- OER as model around IP?
• WikiEducator workshops - Find institutions around NZ to host/support more L4C type workshops around NZ
• Channel video content - YouTube, BlipTV etc --
• HERDSA -- start feeding OERs into Herdsa (Stan)
• How/should we consider quality assurance standards? (It could be that the true open process of OER improves quality and that our older notions get questioned)
• Andrew Higgins project -- is the Otago story on IP capture (Dan - link to Otago IP case study)
• Encourage explicit peer review
• Consider a software development model of iterative improvements
• Or and/or consider a networked review process where end users provide feedback either through just use, or through ratings and other expressions.
• Help teachers become self reliant with always updated resources (the photocopier 15 minutes before class analogy)
• Coordinate a national strategy -- sector wide, national library, institutions, MOE .... particularly on the question of providing local storage (national archive?)
• Show the private sector new business models that do not threaten.
• What we do should be inclusive of all sectors and levels.
• We must develop appropriate and relevant quality processes.
• We should bring the publishers on board.
• Involve professional registering bodies.
• "Engage practitioner networks" - Stanley Frielick
• Investigate economic models for sustainability.
• Knowledge sharing/ case studies on OER models, viable approaches etc.
• OLPC network, Martin Catalyst, David Leeming, funding ....
• Develop a proposal for contestable earmarked funding for OERs (see British Columbia experience, UNESCO OER initiative, William and Flora Hewlett foundation)
• Find ways to diversify revenue streams (eg OERs can free up time for other activities).
• Talk with the sector about the mechanims for OER sharing -- eg ITPNZ.
• Talk with TEC and project leaders whether we apply CC-BY or CC-BY-SA retrospectively to relevant eCDF projects.
• Engagement, dialogue with practitioners and students --- talk to student associations, feedback from students, surveys
• Workshops on copyright -- help educators feel more comfortable.
• Discussions on nuances of open content licences.