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Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Describe introductory steps needed to plan an OER adoption
Introduction
OER adoption, adaptation, and creation is unique. While providing a general workflow for such a process is difficult to do, you should have knowledge of the overall process involved with most OER projects. This section will attempt to do just that.
High Level OER Production Workflow
At the beginning of 2016, this OER production workflow was created with the intention of simplifying the major steps in an OER project so that scoping such work would be manageable.
The workflow was shared with the broad OER community via mailing lists and direct appeals to experts in the field, soliciting comments from more than a dozen contributors. It can be useful when performing the initial scoping of an OER project.
Priming
If you are viewing this content as part of a training workshop, then you are in the first phase of the process. Here we ask key questions about your potential adoption or creation. Once you have completed a basic training or consultation and have performed a cursory search of content that may work for you, you can move onto the next phase.
Pre-production
Before any direct work on content is done, we need to get organized. This means defining the project goals and creating the planning documents you’ll need to manage the process. More attention put towards properly scoping your project the better, and you should use management documents and tools you and your collaborators are familiar with. It is at this point that a call for volunteers (contributors, copyeditors, reviewers) can be sent out if your project would need such support to be successful. Continue in this phase until the necessary resources are secured and commitments have been gathered from collaborators.
Design
This phase is the last step before we get our hands dirty with OER. It is here that we flesh out any outlines for the content and confirm major planned revisions of existing OER you have found for the project. If media development (image/video editing, visual design) is a planned need, scoping this work is done here. Before leaving this phase, you should have a clear idea of both what you are building and how it will get done.
Development
This phase is the real meat of the OER production process — and the most time consuming. It is here that we take existing OER (if applicable) and move it into a shared editing environment to ease the collaborative development of it. The content will go through a feedback loop where new content is added, comments and clarifications are made, and the changes are revised by the collaborators. Commenting, track changes, and annotation can facilitate this process well, depending on the software used to develop content. As an example, many UH OER projects utilize shared documents in Google Drive to collaborate on content in this phase.
Publishing
This is the final step in the process of adapting or creat