Transforming Terrible Ideas into OER Success: A Collaborative Process
Explore a collaborative process for Open Education practitioners to identify and transform obstacles into effective strategies, with insights on overcoming challenges in OER adoption. Discover innovative ideas from workshops and practical steps for successful OER implementation at educational institutions.
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From Bad to Better: Transforming Terrible Ideas into OER Success A collaborative process for OE practicioners Licensed under CC BY 4.0 International. Created by Lena Tichyand workshop members at the Open Education Day Switzerland May 2024, with Yellow Idea Template for LibreOffice Impress by @ealita.id.
Identify potential obstacles to Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption and creatively transform them into effective strategies. After dissecting the best ideas for killing OER integration, you develop actionable plans for successful OER-use at your institution.
From Bad to Better Process overview 3: The Better 1: The Bad 2: Summarizing the Bad Finally, gather everyone and turn the worst ideas around. Use these guiding questions What has to happen that ? How can we promote ? Which concrete first steps can we take to achieve ? In this step, have each group select 2-3 really bad ideas and present them to the other groups In small groups, come up with terrible ideas for OER promotion at your institution List all the properties of those terrible ideas List what makes the worst of these so very bad
From Bad to Better Summary The Bad & The Worst No personal incentives to create OER but high pressure to do so There are a lot of reasons why the adoption of Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices is stalled at Higher Education Institutions. In the first part of this process, OE-practicioners get the chance to identify what isn t working, and use their creativity. In a workshop done at Switzerland s Open Education Day in May 2024, participants came up with several great ideas to kill OER at their institutuion: introduce contradictory policies, or have no policies regarding OER at all No support for teachers, no guidance and no money On each OER, only attribute the institution so there is no visibility for individual authors
From Bad to Better In the third part of the process, we turn the bad ideas around. This is what participants wrote: Define changeable as an OER quality criteria to lower fears of perfectionism Find and uplift existing OER and OEP Give teachers recognition for their OERs & endorse great OERs. Co-create an OER-policy with institutional stakeholders Recruit students to serve as E-Accessibility tutors for teachers Have a clear and transparent OER publication process for your institution. Give teachers time, freedom, space and money to create OER Don t force, convince. Not everything needs to be an OER. Foster a culture where mistakes are okay, even celebrated initiate a discussion about sharing culture and openness Accept that educational materials are messy
