RLO Strategic Planning

RLO Strategic Planning

Reusable Learning Object

Strategic Planning

Reusable Learning Object

Strategic Planning

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Questions:

What would an RLO strategy benefit your institution and stakeholders?

What new opportunities could the project create for your organization?

What problems might this project help solve?

Questions:

What would an RLO strategy benefit your institution and stakeholders?

What new opportunities could the project create for your organization?

What problems might this project help solve?

RLO Strategic Planning

[Reference: RLO Strategy Worksheet][Reference: RLO Strategy Worksheet]

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Questions:

Who are the stakeholders? How would stakeholders use the system? For each stakeholder group, what is the

valued added of adopting an RLO strategy?

Who needs to be “sold” on this concept to gain the support needed to move forward?

Questions:

Who are the stakeholders? How would stakeholders use the system? For each stakeholder group, what is the

valued added of adopting an RLO strategy?

Who needs to be “sold” on this concept to gain the support needed to move forward?

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Small Group Exercise

Write a mission statement that encompasses your overall RLO strategy.

List three to five goals you would like your RLO strategy to accomplish.

Create a diagram showing how you envision the RLO process working in your organization.

Small Group Exercise

Write a mission statement that encompasses your overall RLO strategy.

List three to five goals you would like your RLO strategy to accomplish.

Create a diagram showing how you envision the RLO process working in your organization.

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[Reference: RLO Strategy Worksheet ]

Questions:

Who are the leaders in the organization who can help with the project?

Who are the possible partners? What are the major tasks that need to be

done during the planning stage, and who can do them?

Questions:

Who are the leaders in the organization who can help with the project?

Who are the possible partners? What are the major tasks that need to be

done during the planning stage, and who can do them?

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Questions:

What changes in institutional practices will be required?

Do current policies support sharing content? Can this be done with existing resources, or is a

budget initiative required? What impact will this have on current business

and development practices? Will there be support for these changes?

Questions:

What changes in institutional practices will be required?

Do current policies support sharing content? Can this be done with existing resources, or is a

budget initiative required? What impact will this have on current business

and development practices? Will there be support for these changes?

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Questions:

How will stakeholders use the system? Will all existing content be developed as LOs, or just

future content? Will the LOs be developed internally, externally, or

both? What content will be targeted? Who will make those decisions?

Questions:

How will stakeholders use the system? Will all existing content be developed as LOs, or just

future content? Will the LOs be developed internally, externally, or

both? What content will be targeted? Who will make those decisions?

RLO Strategic Planning

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Small Group Exercise

How will you change your design process?

Small Group Exercise

How will you change your design process?

RLO Strategic Planning

Reference: “Changing Your Design Process” Worksheet

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Questions:

How will you break down content to build LOs?

Who will create and own the LOs? Will LOs be static or dynamic? What type of LOR will be established?

Questions:

How will you break down content to build LOs?

Who will create and own the LOs? Will LOs be static or dynamic? What type of LOR will be established?

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Questions:

Will you organize the LOR into sub-LORs? Who will be responsible for managing the

sub-LORs? Can the sub-LORs have different business

rules from the main LOR?

Questions:

Will you organize the LOR into sub-LORs? Who will be responsible for managing the

sub-LORs? Can the sub-LORs have different business

rules from the main LOR?

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Questions:

Will you use format-free objects? Will you use templates? How will you determine and monitor quality? What policies will be in place for “retiring” or

updating objects?

Questions:

Will you use format-free objects? Will you use templates? How will you determine and monitor quality? What policies will be in place for “retiring” or

updating objects?

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Questions:

What business rules will you need? What workflow processes will you

implement?

Questions:

What business rules will you need? What workflow processes will you

implement?

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RLO Strategic Planning

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Questions:

How will you train and support your users?

Questions:

How will you train and support your users?

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Questions:

What are your tool options? What system architecture will you need? What will the impact be on your

bandwidth?

Questions:

What are your tool options? What system architecture will you need? What will the impact be on your

bandwidth?

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Questions:

How much and what metadata will be required?

Can your LOR use templates to aid with the tagging process?

How will you monitor workflow and metadata implementation?

Questions:

How much and what metadata will be required?

Can your LOR use templates to aid with the tagging process?

How will you monitor workflow and metadata implementation?

RLO Strategic Planning

Reference: SCORE Metadata Guide “Applying Metadata” Worksheet

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Small Group Exercise

In your group, explore the links or resources in the course. Look for information that could support your institution in deploying an RLO strategy.

marketing use cases research/publications evaluation

Small Group Exercise

In your group, explore the links or resources in the course. Look for information that could support your institution in deploying an RLO strategy.

marketing use cases research/publications evaluation

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Questions:

How will you staff the project? What skills sets are needed? How will you communicate to your

stakeholders? What is your exit plan if funding is lost?

Questions:

How will you staff the project? What skills sets are needed? How will you communicate to your

stakeholders? What is your exit plan if funding is lost?

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What are the biggest hurdles?

What are the biggest hurdles?

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Resource:

Barritt, Chuck and F. Lee Alderman, Jr. Creating a Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Leveraging Information and Learning in a Knowledge Economy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004.

Resource:

Barritt, Chuck and F. Lee Alderman, Jr. Creating a Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Leveraging Information and Learning in a Knowledge Economy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004.

Resource:

• The Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminars programme (LEADIRS), which aims to describe and illustrate how to build an online institutional repository – http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/leadirs.pdf

• Creating a Sustainable Online Consortium, http://www.bccampus.ca/BCcampus/MediaAndPublications/BCcampusWhitepapersandReports.htm

Resource:

• The Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminars programme (LEADIRS), which aims to describe and illustrate how to build an online institutional repository – http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/leadirs.pdf

• Creating a Sustainable Online Consortium, http://www.bccampus.ca/BCcampus/MediaAndPublications/BCcampusWhitepapersandReports.htm

Resource:

• The Online Content Repository (OnCoRe) Blueprint Project – http://www.oncoreblueprint.org/

• Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Designing and Developing Learning Objects for Multiple Learning Approaches, a Cisco white paper http://www.e-novalia.com/materiales/RLOW__07_03.pdf

Resource:

• The Online Content Repository (OnCoRe) Blueprint Project – http://www.oncoreblueprint.org/

• Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Designing and Developing Learning Objects for Multiple Learning Approaches, a Cisco white paper http://www.e-novalia.com/materiales/RLOW__07_03.pdf

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This presentation was developed by Liz Glowa and Michael Anderson and was edited by William Hawk, June Weis, and Lisa Johnson.  Development of this resource was funded by the members of the SREB Sharable Content Object Repositories for Education (SCORE) initiative.