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• Leverage existing strategic documents to support Open Education.
  • Action: Add Open Education goals to your institution’s key strategy documents.
  • Action: Identify and track key performance indicators that improve when courses and/or degrees adopt OER.

    Example: Increasing student outcomes, increasing the percentage of learners who can access 100 percent of the learning resources on day 1, reducing dropouts during add/drop periods, increasing credits taken per semester, decreasing student debt, decreasing time to degree.

• Make it easy to share OER.
  • Action: Join a global OER repository and make it simple for your educators and learners to find others’ OER and share their own OER. Provide professional development.
• Ensure that educators have the legal rights to share.
  • Action: Change the contract between the institution and the faculty or teachers so that these educators have the legal rights to CC-license their work.

    Example: A Creative Commons policy in New Zealand gives teachers advance permission to disseminate their resources online for sharing and reuse. The policy also ensures that both the school and the teacher—as well as teachers from around the country and around the world—can continue to use and adapt resources produced by New Zealand teachers in the course of their employment. Creative Commons NZ has developed an annotated policy template for schools to adapt (http://resources.creativecommons.org.nz/cc-schools-policy/).

• Provide OER information to learners.
  • Action: Require OER Course designations in course catalogs so learners can see whether (or not) a course uses an OER or an open textbook.

    Example: The City University of New York labels OER in its catalog; see the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRjTRza_I18&feature=youtu.be.