6. How we deliver
• Traditional face-to-face
• Blended
• Video Conferencing
• Online
• In community
7. The challenges
• Broadband access
• Financial situation
• Education for everyone!
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8. Why OER and OERu?
The challenges:
–Accessibility of resources
–The quality of resources
–Staff capability especially in digital and information
literacies
–Cost effective use of resources
9. Why OER and OERu?
The benefits:
• Reduce cost of teaching • Promote essential digital
and learning resources. competencies.
• Optimise and refocus • Improve quality control
teacher time/ workload of content and learning
and increase productivity. resources.
• Reduce expenditure on • Create an open,
licensed/ subscription sustainable, flexible and
information resources. adaptive learning
environment.
• Increase ROI on course
• Develop a culture of
development.
sharing and collaboration.
11. What are the next steps
Phase 1: Phase 2:
preparing for the OERu official launch of OERu in
prototype pilot running 2013
second half of 2012
Build OER awareness Use OER for course development of Introduce OER into main stream
online courses and promote OER programmes
resources to academic staff
Institutional readiness Review and change IP and RPL Improve and align RPL and credentialing
policy to be OER friendly policies and processes with OERu partners
Contribute OER courses Convert the course we are Increase the number of courses contributed
contributing from Moodle to Wiki as more staff develop the skills to create
format them as OER
Develop capability OCL4Ed and eL4C52 Wikieducator Promote OCL4Ed, eL4C and other
workshops for staff involved in the Wikieducator workshops to all academic
pilot staff
12. Thank you
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Vasi Doncheva
vdoncheva@northtec.ac.nz
playnice_nz