Actor

Organisational aspect    Actor    Thematic elements

Actors Before During After
Support Making clear arrangements with support services Offering technical support Making arrangements with ICT department about management and maintenance
Organising assistance with building a website Organising support from the library Providing advice from the library about adopting OER
Working together with the library to write the application Considering hardware and software management
Drawing up documents, training courses and manuals
Working together with the library to set up a repository for the entire institute
Working together with the library to cultivate adoption of future content
Teaching staff Establishing the apparent need for an up-to-date and accessible textbook Regularly taking part in writing sessions Reviewing experiences with teaching staff
Engaging teaching staff and informing them on LinkedIn and newsletters (internal and external) Bringing in teaching staff and other staff as developers
Involving research group for evaluation
Creating awareness and involving teaching staff
Management Involving management Scheduling a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss strategies to reduce the barriers to adoption
Scheduling quarterly meetings between the project leader and the steering committee
Students Running a small-scale pilot to improve student involvement Involving students in testing and reviewing the modules Reviewing experiences with students
Asking students for feedback on the user-friendliness and impact of the learning experience, e.g. the VR environment
Using students as developers
Actively involving students as project team members

Community/

community of practice

Setting up a partnership with multiple educational institutes Giving presentations at annual conferences Maintaining or growing the community of practice (in the Netherlands and abroad)
Seeking to improve interactions with national partnership group Creating a community, consortium and/or professional association, or else or seeking to join an existing one Forming a community and expanding abroad
Managing expectations, e.g. by organising workshops with the community to explicitly define what is expected and required of the OER repository Setting up a network for mutual cooperation Bringing in the community of practice as a partner for sharing the open text book (in the Netherlands and abroad)
Involving stakeholders, e.g. by reaching out to a professional association Actually working together with the national partnership group Organising a community of practice for a specific study programme
Encouraging reuse Setting up a community of practice and cultivating its adoption among the professional association, e.g. including community education in community research in the same area.
Adding the project application to the agendas of relevant communities to generate awareness Working together to develop a quality mark