| Policy Area |
Policy Issues/Objectives |
Relevance to collaboration and/or OER
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Identifying target audience
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- Educational purpose of the programme
- Demography of student population (e.g. age range, gender, employment)
- Motivation for learning (e.g. vocational, academic)
- Existing knowledge and/or skills of target students (e.g. can study skills be assumed?)
- Curriculum needs (e.g. is it defined by
an examination or a professional body,
academic knowledge, vocational skills?)
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- The sharing of research and templates could facilitate the process of building and then using student profiles at participating institutions.
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Type of DE system
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- Campus based, organization based, individual based
- Self-paced or programme based
- Open access
- Single, dual-mode, partnership service provider
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- The sharing of research, guidelines, process documents and quality criteria can help an institution make informed decisions about which model(s) of DE will be most appropriate to its needs.
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| Choosing the appropriate technology for distribution and materials and for interaction with students
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- Print, audio/visual, web-based or a mix
- Access implications of choice
- Training implications of choice
- Cost – including maintenance and sustainability
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- Open licences for materials will facilitate cost-effective production and distribution of materials.
- Access to course materials from other members of the community of practice can be an effective, rapid strategy to secure materials for courses where no materials exist.
- This might allow use of media that would not have been affordable if an institution needed to develop everything itself.
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