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Questions:  What would an RLO strategy benefit your institution and stakeholders?  What new opportunities could the project create for your organization?  What problems might this project help solve? Questions:  What would an RLO strategy benefit your institution and stakeholders?  What new opportunities could the project create for your organization?  What problems might this project help solve? RLO Strategic Planning [Reference: RLO Strategy Worksheet] 2

Questions:  Who are the stakeholders?  How would stakeholders use the system?  For each stakeholder group, what is the valued added of adopting an RLO strategy?  Who needs to be “sold” on this concept to gain the support needed to move forward? Questions:  Who are the stakeholders?  How would stakeholders use the system?  For each stakeholder group, what is the valued added of adopting an RLO strategy?  Who needs to be “sold” on this concept to gain the support needed to move forward? RLO Strategic Planning 3

Small Group Exercise  Write a mission statement that encompasses your overall RLO strategy.  List three to five goals you would like your RLO strategy to accomplish.  Create a diagram showing how you envision the RLO process working in your organization. Small Group Exercise  Write a mission statement that encompasses your overall RLO strategy.  List three to five goals you would like your RLO strategy to accomplish.  Create a diagram showing how you envision the RLO process working in your organization. RLO Strategic Planning 4 [Reference: RLO Strategy Worksheet ]

Questions:  Who are the leaders in the organization who can help with the project?  Who are the possible partners?  What are the major tasks that need to be done during the planning stage, and who can do them? Questions:  Who are the leaders in the organization who can help with the project?  Who are the possible partners?  What are the major tasks that need to be done during the planning stage, and who can do them? RLO Strategic Planning 5

Questions:  What changes in institutional practices will be required?  Do current policies support sharing content?  Can this be done with existing resources, or is a budget initiative required?  What impact will this have on current business and development practices?  Will there be support for these changes? Questions:  What changes in institutional practices will be required?  Do current policies support sharing content?  Can this be done with existing resources, or is a budget initiative required?  What impact will this have on current business and development practices?  Will there be support for these changes? RLO Strategic Planning 6

Questions:  How will stakeholders use the system?  Will all existing content be developed as LOs, or just future content?  Will the LOs be developed internally, externally, or both?  What content will be targeted?  Who will make those decisions? Questions:  How will stakeholders use the system?  Will all existing content be developed as LOs, or just future content?  Will the LOs be developed internally, externally, or both?  What content will be targeted?  Who will make those decisions? RLO Strategic Planning 7

Small Group Exercise How will you change your design process? Small Group Exercise How will you change your design process? RLO Strategic Planning Reference: “Changing Your Design Process” Worksheet 8

Questions:  How will you break down content to build LOs?  Who will create and own the LOs?  Will LOs be static or dynamic?  What type of LOR will be established? Questions:  How will you break down content to build LOs?  Who will create and own the LOs?  Will LOs be static or dynamic?  What type of LOR will be established? RLO Strategic Planning 9

Questions:  Will you organize the LOR into sub-LORs?  Who will be responsible for managing the sub-LORs?  Can the sub-LORs have different business rules from the main LOR? Questions:  Will you organize the LOR into sub-LORs?  Who will be responsible for managing the sub-LORs?  Can the sub-LORs have different business rules from the main LOR? RLO Strategic Planning 10

Questions:  Will you use format-free objects?  Will you use templates?  How will you determine and monitor quality?  What policies will be in place for “retiring” or updating objects? Questions:  Will you use format-free objects?  Will you use templates?  How will you determine and monitor quality?  What policies will be in place for “retiring” or updating objects? RLO Strategic Planning 11

Questions:  What business rules will you need?  What workflow processes will you implement? Questions:  What business rules will you need?  What workflow processes will you implement? RLO Strategic Planning 12

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Questions: How will you train and support your users? Questions: How will you train and support your users? RLO Strategic Planning 14

Questions:  What are your tool options?  What system architecture will you need?  What will the impact be on your bandwidth? Questions:  What are your tool options?  What system architecture will you need?  What will the impact be on your bandwidth? RLO Strategic Planning 15

Questions:  How much and what metadata will be required?  Can your LOR use templates to aid with the tagging process?  How will you monitor workflow and metadata implementation? Questions:  How much and what metadata will be required?  Can your LOR use templates to aid with the tagging process?  How will you monitor workflow and metadata implementation? RLO Strategic Planning Reference: SCORE Metadata Guide “Applying Metadata” Worksheet 16

Small Group Exercise In your group, explore the links or resources in the course. Look for information that could support your institution in deploying an RLO strategy.  marketing  use cases  research/publications  evaluation Small Group Exercise In your group, explore the links or resources in the course. Look for information that could support your institution in deploying an RLO strategy.  marketing  use cases  research/publications  evaluation RLO Strategic Planning 17

Questions:  How will you staff the project?  What skills sets are needed?  How will you communicate to your stakeholders?  What is your exit plan if funding is lost? Questions:  How will you staff the project?  What skills sets are needed?  How will you communicate to your stakeholders?  What is your exit plan if funding is lost? RLO Strategic Planning 18

What are the biggest hurdles? RLO Strategic Planning 19

Resource: Barritt, Chuck and F. Lee Alderman, Jr. Creating a Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Leveraging Information and Learning in a Knowledge Economy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc Resource: Barritt, Chuck and F. Lee Alderman, Jr. Creating a Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Leveraging Information and Learning in a Knowledge Economy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Resource: The Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminars programme (LEADIRS), which aims to describe and illustrate how to build an online institutional repository – adirs.pdf Creating a Sustainable Online Consortium, aAndPublications/BCcampusWhitepapersan dReports.htm aAndPublications/BCcampusWhitepapersan dReports.htm Resource: The Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminars programme (LEADIRS), which aims to describe and illustrate how to build an online institutional repository – adirs.pdf Creating a Sustainable Online Consortium, aAndPublications/BCcampusWhitepapersan dReports.htm aAndPublications/BCcampusWhitepapersan dReports.htm

Resource: The Online Content Repository (OnCoRe) Blueprint Project – Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Designing and Developing Learning Objects for Multiple Learning Approaches, a Cisco white paper novalia.com/materiales/RLOW__07_03.pdf Resource: The Online Content Repository (OnCoRe) Blueprint Project – Reusable Learning Object Strategy: Designing and Developing Learning Objects for Multiple Learning Approaches, a Cisco white paper novalia.com/materiales/RLOW__07_03.pdf

SLIDE: 23 This presentation was developed by Liz Glowa and Michael Anderson and was edited by William Hawk, June Weis, and Lisa Johnson. Development of this resource was funded by the members of the SREB Sharable Content Object Repositories for Education (SCORE) initiative.