open education week - why take the oer path
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Presentation at Open Education Week 6 March 2012. The OER journey of a regional polytechnic in New Zealand. Why take the OER path and join OERu.TRANSCRIPT
Flexible Learning Manager
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Vasi Doncheva
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Regional Polytechnic in New Zealand:
•Over 300 staff•Average 6,500 students equivalent to 2,800 full time students
Where we deliverWhere we deliverWhere we deliverWhere we deliver
2 Campuses
6 Learning Centres
and many Delivery Points and mobile learning sites across Northland
Our Students Our Students Our Students Our Students
Our programmes Our programmes Our programmes Our programmes
• Traditional face-to-face
• Blended
• Video Conferencing
• Online
• In community
How we deliverHow we deliverHow we deliverHow we deliver
• Broadband access• Financial situation• Education for everyone!
The challenges The challenges The challenges The challenges
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–Accessibility of resources –The quality of resources –Staff capability especially in digital and information literacies–Cost effective use of resources
Why OER and OERu? Why OER and OERu? Why OER and OERu? Why OER and OERu? The challenges:
• Reduce cost of teaching and learning resources.
• Optimise and refocus teacher time/ workload and increase productivity.
• Reduce expenditure on licensed/ subscription information resources.
• Increase ROI on course development.
Why OER and OERu? Why OER and OERu? Why OER and OERu? Why OER and OERu? The benefits:
• Promote essential digital competencies.• Improve quality control of content and learning resources. • Create an open, sustainable, flexible and adaptive learning environment. • Develop a culture of sharing and collaboration.
Our journey so far Our journey so far Our journey so far Our journey so far
What are the next steps What are the next steps What are the next steps What are the next steps
Phase 1: preparing for the OERu prototype pilot running second half of 2012
Phase 2:official launch of OERu in 2013
Build OER awareness Use OER for course development of online courses and promote OER resources to academic staff
Introduce OER into main stream programmes
Institutional readiness Review and change IP and RPL policy to be OER friendly
Improve and align RPL and credentialing policies and processes with OERu partners
Contribute OER courses Convert the course we are contributing from Moodle to Wiki format
Increase the number of courses contributed as more staff develop the skills to create them as OER
Develop capability OCL4Ed and eL4C52 Wikieducator workshops for staff involved in the pilot
Promote OCL4Ed, eL4C and other Wikieducator workshops to all academic staff
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you
Vasi [email protected]
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