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Policy Area Policy Issues/Objectives Relevance to collaboration and/or OER
Programme development, course design and materials production
  • Buy, make or adapt
  • Media choice and/or mix
  • Instructional design
  • Developmental testing
  • Production
  • Delivery
  • Updating
  • Storage
  • Facilitated by use and adaptation of OER.
  • Shared course materials and OERs can be used to increase the number of available materials in digital library without significant additional cost.
  • Collaboration with other members of the community of practice will facilitate such access, as will ongoing integration of the institution into emerging global OER networks.
  • Facilitated by systematic analysis of current copyright status of existing materials, and efforts to ensure that all materials can be freely updated and revised without securing additional permissions.
  • Establishment of licensing frameworks relevant to digitized materials (e.g. Creative Commons) will be essential to protect rights of the institution.
  • Essential to define terms of use of all materials within a digital library, which will be facilitated by systematic materials audit and establishment of systems to manage the institution’s knowledge base.
  • Existing OERs available on the Internet and materials available from other members of the community of practice can support review processes and cost-effective updating of courses.

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