OERu/Planning/Course approval and quality working group

Aims

 * Design and implement a streamlined process for nominating OERu courses which contributes to building the OERu programme of study incorporating a peer review element for feedback.
 * Develop and agree minimum quality standards for OERu courses incorporating the concept of "OERu designated" courses which are judged to meet these minimum standards.

Dependencies
 * Liaise with the Credit transfer and course articulation advisory service to ensure that local requirements for credit transfer and course articulation incorporated into the OERu quality standards to maximise opportunities for course recognition in the network.
 * Liaise with the Curriculum and programme of study working group to maximise alignment of course nominations with the OERu programme(s) of study.
 * Liaise with the OERu partners & course development manual to incorporate course approval guidelines in the OERu partners and course development manual.

Quality assurance process

 * Review quality processes used by collaborative e-learning and OER initiatives

Project team

 * Sarah Lambert (Convener) Manager, Open Education, University of Wollongong slambert@uow.edu.au
 * Wayne Mackintosh
 * Jo Smedley University of South Wales
 * Dr Marcus Harmes, University of Southern Queensland. Marcus is the examiner and course developer of OER1001 (formerly AST1000), the first prototype OERu undergraduate offering.  He is presently working with Tim McCallum at USQ to enhance the delivery and pedagogy of our existing OERu course offering.


 * Mattheus Vorster, Head - Quality Assurance for the School of Computing, University of South Africa vorstmj@unisa.ac.za
 * Dr Richard Alan Northover,Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa	northra@unisa.ac.za
 * Mr Mmushi Sombane, Junior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of South Africa sombamn@unisa.ac.za
 * Steve	Phillips, Assessment Strategist, Centre for the Assessment of Learning,	Thomas Edison State College sphillips@tesc.edu
 * Meg Goodine, Manager, Learning Technology, Institute for Innovation and Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (INSTL, Kwantlen Polytechnic University	Meg.Goodine@kpu.ca
 * Irwin	DeVries,Director,Curriculum Development	Thompson Rivers University Open Learning Idevries@tru.ca
 * Dr Glenn Mitchell, Senior Lecturer, History Program, Faculty of Arts,University of Wollongong	 gmitchel@uow.edu.au
 * Mika Hoffman, Executive Director, Test Development Services, Centre for Educational Measurement, Excelsior College Mhoffman@excelsior.edu
 * Dr Diane Purvey, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Diane.Purvey@kpu.ca

Resource links

 * Proposal for action: Course approvals and quality assurance
 * Proposal for action: Curriculum working group
 * Proposal for action: Leveraging open textbooks for building a programme of study
 * OpenUpEd quality label self-assessment
 * State of the Art Review of Quality Issues related to Open Educational Resources (OER), 2014 by Camilleri, Ehlers & Pawlowski

Tasks

 * 1) /Recruit additional members with broad expertise/
 * 2) /Agree objectives for course approval and quality group/
 * 3) /Review the Course approval mechanisms at the members' organisations/
 * 4) /Review quality frameworks for fully online courses/
 * 5) /Liaise with Curriculum group for an understanding of Priority discipline/course areas that need to be provided globally to meet OERu aspirations/
 * 6) /Review OpenUpEd quality label process/
 * 7) /Review options for centrally posted call for EOI for subjects needed/ (ie a call for courses to be developed, rather than developing a process that relies solely on partners to nominate based on capacity or local priorities)

Meetings

 * 1) /First Meeting/