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Relevance to Collaboration and/or OER
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- Blurred inter-faculty & interdepartmental linkages with duplication of activities (CSP, p.13)
- Inadequate and uncoordinated information & communication technology characterised by low access and utilization (CSP, p.13)
- Inability to admit all qualified applicants (CSP, p.13)
- Inadequate funding for research partly attributable to poor marketing of research projects and weak proposal writing skills (CSP, p.14)
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- Policy review provides opportunity to be responsive to Mission – promote innovation, relevant and cutting edge technology – by taking cognisance of the changing realities of IP management in a digital age.
- The creation of institution-wide policies around OER provides an excellent opportunity to introduce new systems for more effective management of institutional resources (human & material) as well as its IP.
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| Human Resources & Curriculum/Course Materials Challenges
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- Aging faculty, high faculty turnover and the absence of mentoring combine to indicated a crisis in Human Resource Supply which could lead to lowering of output quality ... (CSP, p.18)
- Poor work ethic among some teaching staff coupled with a weak mentoring and supervision system (CSP, p.14)
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- Staff succession planning demands effective management of intellectual capital –
- Open licensing frameworks provide simple mechanisms to ensure that, in the long term, institutions have effective access to the products of academic staff’s intellectual capital.
- Imposing a discipline of licensing all materials under an open framework will ensure that knowledge products are stored and tagged on an ongoing basis, thus helping to deal more effectively with staff turnover and induction of new staff.
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