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.:

Activities sustainability OER projects version 1-5-2025