Post on 12-Jan-2015
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NATIONAL POLICY/LOCAL POLICYA STORY OF THE NORTH-WEST OER NETWORK
Professor Clive Mulholland, University of South Wales
‘…England’s solution to OER is to tackle it at regional level’
AIMS OF THE NETWORK- Provide new opportunities for knowledge exchange and
collaboration in the region
- Develop a regional support community to promote the use and value of OER
- Promote sustainable teaching and learning practice
- Develop and OER portal for the North-West
- Collaboration across institutions
- Peer review materials
- Teaching and research opportunities
Influence policy in the region
Challenges?
In the spirit of honouring tradition, universities hang on to past practices to the point of imperilling their futures
Clayton Christensen, The Innovative University
How to understand and overcome the challenges to develop a policy at regional level?
- Disrupts
- Understanding of OER is low
- Attracts those who are already in the know
- Challenges practice
- Contacts
- Digital literacy skills
- Gap between policy and practice
CHALLENGES