4. Recommendations to implement OER and Open Education in your organisation The next table contains recommendations and guidelines to create a favourable environment for OER within your context, or to increase your capacity in using open approach in your training activities. We suggest you focus on the category that corresponds to your organisation, following your in “score” the previous table. Each recommendation is linked either to a resource that will increase your openness capacity or to a good practice that shows how other institutions are actually embedding OER and OEP in their daily work. Organisations with no experience in Organisations taking first steps in Organisations with some experience in OER/OEP striving to take first steps OER/OEP striving to gain some OER/OEP striving to establish a experience sustainable OER strategy OPEN LICENSES Get familiar with the terms in use in the Get familiar with Creative Commons Develop an open licensing policy for Open Education domain: licenses: your institution: Guidelines on adopting open Understand the basics of copyright in Establish a responsible for open Organize regular trainings for your licenses for your education. licensing within the organisation. staff/yourself to stay updated on training materials developments in the OER world. (Q1) OER Explore where to find OER on the web. . Learn about how to create, search and Develop an OER policy for your evaluate OER: institution, dealing also with metadata () and with quality assurance (, ) Guidelines to increase the use of OER Motivate individual staff to develop and (re)-use OER. (Q2)
4. Recommendations to implement OER and Open Education in your organisation The next table contains recommendations and guidelines to create a favourable environment for OER within your context, or to increase your capacity in using open approach in your training activities. We suggest you focus on the category that corresponds to your organisation, following your “score” in the previous table. Each recommendation is linked either to a resource that will increase your openness capacity or to a good practice that shows how other institutions are actually embedding OER and OEP in their daily work. Organisations with no experience in OER/OEP striving to take first steps Organisations taking first steps in OER/OEP striving to gain some experience Organisations with some experience in OER/OEP striving to establish a sustainable OER strategy OPEN LICENSES Guidelines on adopting open licenses for your training materials (Q1) Get familiar with the terms in use in the Open Education domain: Understand the basics of copyright in education. Get familiar with Creative Commons licenses: Establish a responsible for open licensing within the organisation. Develop an open licensing policy for your institution: Organize regular trainings for your staff/yourself to stay updated on developments in the OER world. OER Guidelines to increase the use of OER (Q2) Explore where to find OER on the web. . Learn about how to create, search and evaluate OER: Motivate individual staff to develop and (re)-use OER. Develop an OER policy for your institution, dealing also with metadata () and with quality assurance (, )
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