Project Scoping

Open Publishing Projects Certificate: Session 2

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Reminders

• Enroll in the Canvas course
• Review and agree to the cohort MOU
• Post your introduction

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Agenda

• Session and program goals
• Publishing process overview
• Identify tools to help your team work productively
• Discuss the value of open licenses for you OER
• Locate OER that match your teaching intentions
• Plan and share a project summary

Project Scoping

What do you envision your resource will achieve?

Growing & Managing Teams

How can we build equitable collectives that model the good work we want to do in the educations sphere?

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Creating and Editing Content

How will your content and practices foster equitable student learning?

Feedback and Review

How can feedback support you to do better?

Storytelling and Communications

Whose stories will you tell?

Why and how?

Preparing for Release

How will you concert your team efforts to promote and celebrate your OER launch?

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Adoptions and Post-release

How will you involve students and the adopters to shape future iterations of your OER?

The Open Publishing Process (Re)Writing the Future

Learning Outcomes

• Articulate key details and goals of your project by sketching out a public project summary with your team (including an anticipated timeline)
• Clarify the importance of aligning your OER with your course learning outcomes
• Determine the tools that will enable smooth organisation, communication, writing, and publishing within your team
• Locate existing OER in your discipline that match your intended uses
• Discuss the value of open licences for your OER

Project Scoping

Set up your key systems

• The key to project management is setting up a system that works for your team, and sticking to it!
• We suggest thinking about tools in three broad categories

What tools will support your team’s…

1. Organization: manage content and track internal progress
2. Communication: have (a)synchronous meetings and discussions
3. Writing and publishing: write, edit, review, and publish content

Project Summary Template

You will use the Project Summary Template to describe your work.

Pay attention to each section:

• Overview and motivators
• Course: Audience, SLOs, Materials
• Structure and license
• Timeline
• Measures of success

View example project summaries in the handout.

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Selecting a License

• A key start to offering access to your OER
• Ownership and attribution
• Envisioned use of your OER

Core Values

Intentional Alignment

Look for OER that align too! Don’t reinvent the wheel

Outcomes

Content

Learning

Activity: Begin editing your project summary

Instructions:

1. Join breakout room with your team
2. Make a copy of the Project Summary Template
3. Start disscussing 1-3 elements of the template [15 min]
4. Share back with the cohort

As homework, continue the discussion with your team about the missing parts of this summary. Note this will take you a few weeks.

For next week…

Homework