Kenya national symposium on open education/Open policies for open schools

Name of proposal
Development of OER institutional policies for open schools

Aims of the activity (longer term)

 * Encouraging and supporting open schools to develop quality education frameworks through use of OERs
 * Developing mechanisms to support the adoption and implementation of OER
 * Encourage institutions to implement policies which prioritise reuse of existing OER when developing new courses and educational content.

Objectives of the activity (short term)

 * Implementing activities to support OER advocacy for all open school stakeholders
 * Implementing activities to support capability development in all aspects relating to OER and open education practices
 * Refining intellectual property policies for OER
 * Implementing activities to support OER course design and development

Narrative summary of what will be done

 * Conduct an inventory of existing OER and open policies
 * Develop draft institutional policies
 * Conduct consultative institutional workshops to negotiate and adopt policy refinements for open education
 * Sharing experiences with the open school network
 * Facilitating capability development policies for OER and initiating relevant activities for capability development
 * Identifying relevant stakeholders
 * Promoting institutional commitment for integrating OER for selected courses from Head of institutions, senior management teams and course coordinators.

What inputs are required?

 * Consultation with COL
 * Existing OER and other relevant policies from other institutions
 * Existing policies with regard to  course development
 * Existing intellectual policies of different organisations

Group decisions for this activity including who and when

 * Follow up of discussions with the heads of institutions, senior management, COMOSA, President and senior management team of COL: Deadline: March 2014
 * Draft institutional policies submitted to Wayne Mackintosh for feedback: 31 July 2013.
 * Group webinar: 19th August 2013
 * Webinar arranged for heads of open schools: Francis (1st Week of July 2013)
 * Peer review of process: 20-25 November 2013