| Challenge
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Relevance to Collaboration and/or OER
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- Lack of formal training in teaching and poor teaching aids/laboratory equipment (CSP, p.14)
- Weak recognition and reward systems ... (CSP, p.14)
- In adequate funding for research partly attributable to poor marketing of research projects and weak proposal writing skills (CSP, p.14)
- Need to “Do more with less” by rethinking assumptions about delivery systems, curriculum, organizational structures and personnel. (CSP, p.6)
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- Process of adapting OER can be used to build capacity in creation / development and the use of educational materials, i.e. Instructional design.
- Access to high quality materials packages and supplementary materials of multiple media is essential to alleviate workload pressure on overstretched academics.
- Investment into faculty by the university is critical – OER is not a panacea to structural under-funding.
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5. Identify key policy positions
For example:
Having analysed some key challenges relevant to OER and collaboration in materials development, it is now possible to explore key policy positions and objectives, in order to assess their relevance. This is presented below:
| Policy/Objective
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Relevance to Collaboration and/or OER
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| Curriculum/Course Materials Positions/Objectives
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- 8.6. A digital library – accessible over the Internet, operational by June, 2009 [Rolling Strategic Plan, p. 83]
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- 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.
- Shared course materials and OERs can be used to increase number of available materials in digital library without significant additional cost.
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