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Barriers and enablers in institutionalising open approaches to curriculum design

Barriers and enablers in institutionalising open approaches to curriculum design . Peter Chatterton. You build your snowball e.g. open resource, tool, methodology, process, community of practice. it (hopefully) has momentum to continue its journey …… to where ???.

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Barriers and enablers in institutionalising open approaches to curriculum design

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  1. Barriers and enablers in institutionalising open approaches to curriculum design Peter Chatterton

  2. You build your snowball e.g. open resource, tool, methodology, process, community of practice

  3. it (hopefully) has momentum to continue its journey …… to where ???

  4. ….. but barriers can get in the way

  5. Barriers - institutional Cultural attitudes and established practices wrt open design Understanding of vocabulary, issues, costs, benefits & impact Sustainability and embedding of "open" projects Skills & knowledge required to create, use and re-use OERs Time, resource and support Quality assurance Senior management buy-in Variable usability of repositories / quality of materials

  6. Enablers - institutional • Changing people & culture • Simple change approaches e.g. Critical Friends & change agents (inc. students) • Staff CPD (accredited?), recognition and reward • Visioning and scenario planning • Communications & stakeholder engagement • Institutional change management techniques • Internal communities of practice • Influencing organisational change • Continuous improvement approaches • Change agents and champions • Making the “business case”. • Embedding or aligning open approaches • Open design quality and evaluation framework • Aligning with institutional/faculty goals, drivers and needs • Embedding in strategies • Embedding in processes, systems & services • Focusing on impact and returns on investment • Creating useable tools, resources & support

  7. Barriers - sector “Not invented here” Insufficient “motivators” & resources Increasing competition Lack of evidence Lack of “rating/feedback” culture and practice

  8. Enablers - sector Partnerships and collaborations (OLTF) Employer sector approaches to supporting work-based/related learning Subject sector SIGs/communities of practice Sector approaches to stakeholder communications and engagement Enhanced usable repositories (deposit, dissemination & rating)

  9. Infinity?

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