# Use

The various sustainability strategies are structured according to the same framework as the one used for the infographic described above, which was developed by the Acceleration Plan’s On the Road to digital educational resources and OER zone.

#### This tool summarises the activities from the 2022 overview and the 2025 study. It is intended to provide project leaders and policy advisers with inspiration for deciding what activities to use to make their OER project sustainable.

The sustainability strategies are broken down into 2 dimensions: phase and aspect.

1. The vertical axis shows aspects: organisation, professionals involved and thematic aspects. These are broken down further into various sub-aspects.

2. The horizontal axis shows the phase: before, during or after the project

Organisation aspect | Actor aspect | Thematic elements of working with OER aspect
Strategy & Policy, Culture & Human Resource Development, Organisation, Technology & Infrastructure, Economic & Financial, Legal & Compliance and Primary Process (education) | Teaching staff, Support staff (both educational and informational), Management, Student, Community | Awareness of OER, How to search for OER, Substantive access to OER, Reusing OER, Creating OER or Sharing OER

This tool can be used for a number of purposes, e.g.:

- As a sounding board for brainstorming: Set aside at least 2 hours with the members of the project team to see what activities are feasible and relevant for your original project idea. Then add those activities to the project application

- As a basic set-up for your project application: Make a scan of the document and highlight the relevant activities. Next, use the ‘Notes’ columns to describe how best to apply the activity in your specific context.

  For an example of a completed form, see the tab: Example.

  The context of the completed form is described below: goal, targeted users and intended results.

Activities sustainability OER projects version 1-5-2025