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Institutional aspects - practical resources and guides

Many of the project final reports discuss a wide range of institutional issues and cover many different kinds of institution. Project final reports are available for each of the three phases of activity:

Pilot Programme - OER Release | OER Programme Phase 2 | OER Programme Phase 3

see also UKOER Guides Cultural Aspects which offers materials around culture change and staff engagement, development and practices

Benefits

• ALTO and benefits of putting resources online  video of Stephen Farthing Rootstein Hopkins, Research Chair of Drawing at the university of Arts London gives his reactions to the idea of sharing learning resources and the ALTO project. (ALTO Project)
• Podcast of Vice-Chancellor talking about U-Now and Open Learning at Nottingham (BERLIN Project University of Nottingham)

Senior management support

• Podcast of Vice-Chancellor talking about U-Now and Open Learning at Nottingham BERLIN Project University of Nottingham)
• Interviews with university senior executive formulating our case study “How institutional culture can change to adopt open practices”, available: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/oer/OER_CS_Vivien_Rolfe_How_institutional_culture_can_change.pdf (HALSOER Project)

Strategy and policy

• OER Strategy Document   - (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Leeds Metropolitan University Academic Board discussion paper - (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University) 
• VLE's, Digital Repositories: Current Institutional Facilities, Policies and Practices Report (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• VLE's, Digital Repositories: Current Institutional Facilities, Policies and Practices Report Template (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• C-change evidence of new or enhanced policies, processes and work flows at consortium institutions through case studies of practice: (C-Change Project)
• Towards understanding and future policy in art, design and media higher education: focus group report - (ADM-OER Project)

Models and frameworks

• CORRE: a framework for transforming teaching materials into OERs and CORRE workflow model (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Cascade framework for OERs
  OER reflective tasks:
  Task 1 - Introducing Open Educational Resources
  Task 2 - Exploring Open Educational Resources
  Task 3 – Developing the Casade Framework
  Task 4 – Peer Review (C-SAP CACSADE Project)
• Scaffold for institutional OER adoption and implementation (OSTRICH Project)
• CORRE framework and CORRE 2.0 framework to support (respectively) repurposing and original design of educational materials for 'openness, reuse, repurposing and evidence'. In its implementation at Bath, CORRE 2.0 is referred to as DORRE. Supported by a detailed checklist (OSTRICH Project)
  Account of the transition from CORRE 1.0 to CORRE 2.0 as presented at OER11 (OSTRICH Project)

Sustainability

• A sustainable model for OER Implementation at Leeds metropolitan University OER10 Conference March 2010 - (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Chemistry FM Project notes on sustainability (Chemistry FM, University of Lincoln)
• OER11 conference in Manchester UK: paper for symposium on sustainable approaches to OER (ALTO Project)

Marketing

• Series of videos to support those using the web to highlight open content  MMTV: Making XML Site Maps:  MMTV: Registering on multiple domains  ; MMTV: Twitter:   MMTV: Tweet Deck  (MMTV Project, University of Westminster)
• Raising awareness of content: MMTV newspaper articles on awareness-raising processes: Twitter,  Social Networking     Marketing
• Marketing and Communications for OER (RIPPLE Project)

Different institutional contexts

• Institutional context: Teaching through the medium of Welsh(C-SAP CASCADE Project)
• Institutional context: HE in FE (C-SAP CASCADE Project)
• ACTION PLAN: Kingston University (ADM Project)
• ACTION PLAN: Winchester School of Art (ADM Project)
• ACTION PLAN: De Montfort University (ADM Project)
• ACTION PLAN: University of Hertfordshire (ADM Project)
• ACTION PLAN: Bucks New University (ADM Project)