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4. 15. Negotiating with external individuals and/or organisations to issue or re-issue resources under open licences;
   16. Re-versioning existing resources using optical character recognition where they do not exist in digital form;
   17. Understanding:
       • whether it is permissible to modify the content when customising material and, if so, to what extent it can be done and how it should be handled;
       • and if work has been adapted for a specific purpose, how this should be indicated in the customised content;
   18. Reinforcing the need to credit the original author/source of the content that is being accessed for use through open licensing; and
   19. Implementing the necessary processes for producing print-on-demand texts.
5. Technical expertise. This set of skills is tightly connected to the skills of materials design and development. Increasingly, resource-based learning and student-centred strategies are harnessing a wide range of media and are deployed in e-learning environments, facilitated by the ready availability of digitised, openly licensed educational content. This requires skills in:
   1. Advising institutions on the pros and cons of establishing their own repositories, as well as providing advice on other possible ways of sharing their OER;
   2. Creating stable, operational virtual learning environments (VLE) and content repositories;
   3. Supporting academic staff in developing courses within already operational or newly deployed VLE; and
   4. Developing computer-based multimedia materials (including video and audio materials).
6. Expertise in managing networks/consortia of people and institutions to work cooperatively on various teaching and learning improvement projects including an ability to adapt to challenging environments (for example, power outages, physical discomfort, difficult personalities, institutional politics) and remain focused on the task at hand.
7. Monitoring and evaluation expertise to design and conduct formative evaluation processes, as well as longer-term summative evaluation and or impact assessment activities that determine the extent to which the use of open licensing has led to improvements in the quality of teaching and learning, greater productivity, enhanced cost-effectiveness, and so on.
8. Expertise in curating and sharing OER effectively. This includes:
   1. Technical skills to develop and maintain Web platforms to host OER online, as well as to share the content and metadata with other Web platforms;

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