Strategic movements June 25, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackI have had two conversations about strategic approaches to sharing content within the University this week. Increasing staff engagement will be an important output of our project during this second year. Encouraging staff to engage with the knowledge commons, as I have mentioned previously, appears within our University Learning and Teaching Enhancement Strategy, which Schools have to address via action plans. To assist with this process myself and the Learning and Teaching Coordinator within one of our Schools are investigating developing an educational resources model that will encourage staff to use the OERs and which may, also, encourage colleagues to share internally and beyond. The model will include awareness raising via workshops, the development of an artifact which will clearly illustrate the OER landscape and possibly some statements that relate to championing sharing resources and use of OERs. Once this model has been developed we will share it with other Schools to see if they would like to adopt it or even repurpose it. We, also discussed looking at the issue of re-inventing the wheel with respect to subject content, for example, we have many courses on research methods, final year project and project management etc. is there a way that we can encourage staff to put some of this content in our learning repository, to encourage repurposing rather than rewriting.
I also talked to another senior colleague within another School which has an e-learning strategy. The School has various levels of engagement by staff in e-learning but they have a committment within their strategy for staff to put most or even all their content within the Learning Respository. This will be an interesting challenge that will need to be scoped. The rationale behind this approach was not only sharing but also cutting down staff time on rewriting content.
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