OERu/OERu 13.11 Council of CEOs/draft terms of reference

Role / purpose
The role of the OERuniversity (OERu) Council of Chief Executive Officers is to provide executive leadership at the corporate institutional level to facilitate the achievement of the aims of the OERu for the mutual benefit of learners and its members.

Aims of the OERu
Directed by the core principles of engagement the OERu network aims to:


 * Provide free learning opportunities and affordable assessment pathways to enable students to earn credible qualifications from accredited institutions
 * Offer open online courses and programs based on OER and open access materials
 * Implement scalable technology-enhanced pedagogies
 * Implement scalable systems of technology-mediated student support
 * Offer assessment and credentialing services
 * Assure appropriate course articulation among partner institutions.

Membership
The Council will comprise incumbent Chief Executives (or designated nominee) of current OERu partner organisations. (Senior designated leader?)

Roles and responsibilities
Council members will endeavour to:
 * Foster collaboration among all partner organisations
 * Support the offering of courses and programmes using open education approaches
 * Promote the design, development and delivery of innovative open online courses
 * Engender the development and implementation of sustainable and scalable systems for student support through community service learning approaches
 * Support the formalization of appropriate credit transfer arrangements between partner institutions within existing policy protocols
 * Share institutional policies and strategies associated with open education practices
 * Discuss strategic higher education futures associated with open education
 * Investigate and deploy emerging business models for the development of sustainable higher education futures.

Note: The Terms of Reference are effective from 5 November 2013 and will be reviewed at the next meeting of the Council.

Add footnote to core principles of engagement