Greetings all,
A good number of our group have signed up and we'll send out a reminder to the
rest to do so as well - that way we can do all our communication for the PE
working group through this tool and maintain a record of communications. While
we're on that topic, if you haven't yet - please take a moment to complete your
profile in Groups.OERu which helps us to feel more like a family than a bunch
of anonymous people!
While our group has a number of KPIs...
http://wikieducator.org/OERu/Planning/OERu_partner_engagement
...to achieve (Key Productivity Indicators) - given the time of year, Wayne has
suggested we focus on an OERu induction MOOC as a first step. The main idea is
to familiarize and orient new and existing members who haven't had a high
degree of involvement to the OERu. Sarah Lambert has done a lot of good work in
this area and has tested the induction processes of several other MOOC
providers. In my own research there are strong indications that induction and
mentoring processes are key in the successful building of open source
development communities. This is a foundational activity for building partner
engagement.
With that in mind, I'd like to propose that between now and December 2015 we
collaboratively refine an induction MOOC process and outcomes and deliver it to
multiple institutions. It would be based on the partners manual already
developed mainly by Gail Morong and Kelly Warnock at TRU...
http://wikieducator.org/OERu/Planning/Develop_an_OERu_partners_manual/Brainstorm_and_discuss_provisional_table_of_contents_for_partners_manual
and the work done by Sarah in her own research into induction processes: I'll
quote at some length from a recent email she sent:
"Today I chaired the first of 2 virtual meetings of the Quality and Approvals
Working Group. I had 1 experienced collaborator and 2 new staff members from
recently joined partner organisations.
The new members had done some pre-reading of the links re the mission, the
partners, and even some exposure to DS4OER - links were provided on the
meeting Agenda page.
However they were still so very far away from being able to connect the dots,
see let alone understand development process and how they might move forward
locally.
"In short, today's meeting became an induction of new members - it was lovely
to meet new people and share experience. On the other hand - no substantive
progress was made on the Quality agenda - beyond raising awareness that it
exists, which is of course really valuable."
"The issues of open content licencing were still very new and challenging (even
unknown) to the members today, and the new members really appreciated being
walked through the blueprint to course development cycle, and have their
questions answered. They also found that by the end they were quite overwhelmed
with the amount of βnewβ information, and quite blown away by the amount and
type of work ahead (online learning design, wiki, new learning platforms, open
licencing, designing and sharing ideas in public.)"
"My reflection is that this type of induction for new members is probably
something we should just do. I canβt see any getting around taking the time (1
hour 20mins) with each new partner group that joins - and indeed i think it's
probably a great investment in the network to offer this as a standard process
each time a new partner joins OERu.
I note that the commercial MOOC organisations all do online induction, and in
my experience it is accepted by new partners."
"So I'm proposing that when a new OERu partner signs up, we schedule in their
induction. I would recommend inviting everybody from the project sponsor to the
head of the flexible learning folks and the flexible learning folks and someone
from the library too. In the last 15mins we could step them through the new
Partner MOOC for example. If we could get even 4-5 people from their
organisation in the virtual room at the same time, I think we could set the new
members on a very productive path and speed their active participation towards
our shared goals.
I look forward to your thoughts on the matter."
SO....
Without having a full meeting at this point, I'd like to know if you agree with
this idea or have any further suggestions. If this makes sense, our first step
then would be to arrange a virtual meeting in mid to later August and put
together an outline, and discuss how to deliver several of the induction MOOCs.
Sound good?
Thanks,
Irwin
A good number of our group have signed up and we'll send out a reminder to the
rest to do so as well - that way we can do all our communication for the PE
working group through this tool and maintain a record of communications. While
we're on that topic, if you haven't yet - please take a moment to complete your
profile in Groups.OERu which helps us to feel more like a family than a bunch
of anonymous people!
While our group has a number of KPIs...
http://wikieducator.org/OERu/Planning/OERu_partner_engagement
...to achieve (Key Productivity Indicators) - given the time of year, Wayne has
suggested we focus on an OERu induction MOOC as a first step. The main idea is
to familiarize and orient new and existing members who haven't had a high
degree of involvement to the OERu. Sarah Lambert has done a lot of good work in
this area and has tested the induction processes of several other MOOC
providers. In my own research there are strong indications that induction and
mentoring processes are key in the successful building of open source
development communities. This is a foundational activity for building partner
engagement.
With that in mind, I'd like to propose that between now and December 2015 we
collaboratively refine an induction MOOC process and outcomes and deliver it to
multiple institutions. It would be based on the partners manual already
developed mainly by Gail Morong and Kelly Warnock at TRU...
http://wikieducator.org/OERu/Planning/Develop_an_OERu_partners_manual/Brainstorm_and_discuss_provisional_table_of_contents_for_partners_manual
and the work done by Sarah in her own research into induction processes: I'll
quote at some length from a recent email she sent:
"Today I chaired the first of 2 virtual meetings of the Quality and Approvals
Working Group. I had 1 experienced collaborator and 2 new staff members from
recently joined partner organisations.
The new members had done some pre-reading of the links re the mission, the
partners, and even some exposure to DS4OER - links were provided on the
meeting Agenda page.
However they were still so very far away from being able to connect the dots,
see let alone understand development process and how they might move forward
locally.
"In short, today's meeting became an induction of new members - it was lovely
to meet new people and share experience. On the other hand - no substantive
progress was made on the Quality agenda - beyond raising awareness that it
exists, which is of course really valuable."
"The issues of open content licencing were still very new and challenging (even
unknown) to the members today, and the new members really appreciated being
walked through the blueprint to course development cycle, and have their
questions answered. They also found that by the end they were quite overwhelmed
with the amount of βnewβ information, and quite blown away by the amount and
type of work ahead (online learning design, wiki, new learning platforms, open
licencing, designing and sharing ideas in public.)"
"My reflection is that this type of induction for new members is probably
something we should just do. I canβt see any getting around taking the time (1
hour 20mins) with each new partner group that joins - and indeed i think it's
probably a great investment in the network to offer this as a standard process
each time a new partner joins OERu.
I note that the commercial MOOC organisations all do online induction, and in
my experience it is accepted by new partners."
"So I'm proposing that when a new OERu partner signs up, we schedule in their
induction. I would recommend inviting everybody from the project sponsor to the
head of the flexible learning folks and the flexible learning folks and someone
from the library too. In the last 15mins we could step them through the new
Partner MOOC for example. If we could get even 4-5 people from their
organisation in the virtual room at the same time, I think we could set the new
members on a very productive path and speed their active participation towards
our shared goals.
I look forward to your thoughts on the matter."
SO....
Without having a full meeting at this point, I'd like to know if you agree with
this idea or have any further suggestions. If this makes sense, our first step
then would be to arrange a virtual meeting in mid to later August and put
together an outline, and discuss how to deliver several of the induction MOOCs.
Sound good?
Thanks,
Irwin