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OER Management and Delivery: Seven Best Practices
Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
October 1, 2014
Purpose of the Session
To share • The best practices for managing, organizing and
delivering open development projects.• The helpful tips and suggestions around various
aspects of open development projects, such as quality assurance and copyright clearance.
• The lesson learned in the project management.• How to work with faculty and administration.
Samples and templates: http://goo.gl/SP8JyW
Best Practice #1: Ensure the content is OPEN
Consider:
1. Ensuring that all course developers are aware of the requirement of open licensing.
2. Becoming familiar with the concept of OER. Information is available at http://open4us.org/.
3. Encouraging the course developers to develop the original resources or use open sources only.
Best Practice #1: Ensure the content is OPEN
Consider:
4. Having a copyright expert (e.g., college librarian) who is knowledgeable with open licensing review the content.
5. Including a Citation and Copyright folder in each course package, containing the information about copyright permissions, references, and materials audit.
Best Practice #2: Assure the QUALITY of the materials
Consider:
1. Having a professional instructional designer review the design of the material.
2. Providing templates for each instructional design process with examples.
Best Practice #2: Assure the QUALITY of the materials
Consider:3. Dividing the course development process into
the logical units and checking the quality in detail:
• Course level & Module level objectives
• Lessons & Learning activities
• Assessments
• Syllabus
Best Practice #3: Provide a DELIVERABLES list
Consider:
1. Providing a deliverables list with
• Clear expectations (& consequences)
• Specific due dates
• People in charge
Best Practice #4: Manage deliverables OPENLY
Consider:
1. Sharing deliverables tracking document with all team members and using it to determine the status of work.
2. Constantly reminding the team members of the due dates and the consequences.
Best Practice #5: Make a plan for how to SUSTAIN
Consider:
1. Selecting a delivery system that could be open to changes.
2. Avoid completely relying on a Learning Management System.
3. Making a plan for maintenance.
Best Practice #6: Check on the ACCESSIBILITY
Consider:
1. Having a professional accessibility expert review the material.
2. Providing guidelines and training on accessibility from the beginning of the project.
Best Practice #7: Plan for the DATA collection
Consider:
1. Creating a clear research plan from the beginning.
2. Notifying the project participants of the research plan at the start of the project.
How to have faculty and administration on board with OER
Consider:
1. Letting them know the benefits of using OER.
Benefits faculty experienced
Saving Student Money
Instructinal Responsiveness
Concurrent and evolving content
Active student involvement
Active and wide Collaboration
Diverse course content
Reflective Teching
Convinience of Use
2. Setting up the encouraging climate for the use of OER.
3. Providing easy pathways to access OER.
4. Providing projects, initiatives, and mini-grant opportunities.
5. Having a local expert.
6. Providing basic ground level trainings.
Resources (1)
How to Use Open Educational Resources
– Online asynchronous training
– 2 weeks, 10 hours
– Fully facilitated
Resources (2)
Open Washington
www.openwa.org
– Dedicated to providing easy pathways for faculty to learn, find, use and apply OER
Questions and Comments on OER use
Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.
Policy Associate, Open Education and eLearning
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)
