Key Stakeholders

Before OSTRICH

Now

E-learning support team

Design and production support for internal captive audience (registered students).

Support for open design and production, reaching a global audience.

IT Services (Derby) and e-learning support team (Bath)

VLEs and content management systems designed with an institutional focus.

Support for and hosting of open repository.

Academics (contributors to OSTRICH)

Content to benefit students within closed environments such as the virtual learning environment (VLE).

Concerns about ‘not developed here’ materials.

Content to benefit the wider community, including prospective students and self-learners, as well as the authors of the content.

OERs from elsewhere are reviewed as an integral part of curriculum design process.

IP and Legal Services Dept

No awareness of CC licence

Head of IP has much better understanding of open education practices and CC licences, and of consent issues around lecture capture.

Library

For teaching materials, nobody with an IPR role (Bath); existing IPR policy does not fully cater for OER development work (Derby).

Bath: greater awareness amongst library staff about open content, e.g. discussions with research publications repository manager enabled sharing of working practices and ideas about repositories.

Derby: updating of existing IPR policy.

Senior Management Team

Interest in OERs and acknowledgement of their potential.

An understanding of the tangible benefits of openness in terms of quality enhancement of teaching materials, global visibility and promotion (expressed in meetings with members of the OSTRICH team).