I’ve been looking, asking colleagues and associates for a straightforward description of an agile workflow for the creation or reuse of open educational resources (OERs). You’d think it would be simple to find. Nope. Not until today.
While searching using “simple, easy, agile” and other adjectives to describe “OER workflow,” I finally got a hit that made sense.
OER Workflow Diagram by Lisa Rogers – Heriot-Watt University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
The OER workflow diagram by Lisa Rogers, and the explanation of its use is a valuable resource.
Thank you, Lisa.
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Not sure I get why this is helpful. Seems like pretty basic rights clearance workflow. If this is what you were looking for, an abstracted idealized workflow that doesn’t reflect actual practice or tools, then I have misunderstood the quest for an “agile OER workflow.” I guess I always simply understood that assessing the rights of a resource to be used is sort of fundamental *if* copyright is even a consideration in reusing materials (an assumption I think we should question in education, where *actual* behaviour seems to largely skip over the copyright issue altogether.)
Thanks for your comments, Scott. Always appreciated
However, I think the diagram describes more than an IP clearance process. Embedded within it are processes called: creation, quality control and technical. I know I have heard you speak (lament) on the quality control (or lack thereof) item at various stages of OER development processes.
These are macro process categories, that while not described in any detail, announce that there are multiple steps in the OER creation and reuse process that also need to be further described and/or built-out in a more convivial manner.
For me, this diagram represents a high-level view that could form the basis for a more detailed “how-to,” or form the basis of a workshop series that explored all of the *actual* behaviours and practices you note. It might then begin to frame the optimal processes in a *useful and usable* set of resources that could attract more instructors to both create and reuse in whatever manner seemed most efficacious *to them.*