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Because our work creates many opportunities for close collaboration with OER champions, Lumen has been in a privileged position to see and help support many different activities associated with evangelizing for OER. These experiences have created a treasure trove of ideas and expertise around building effective OER initiatives.

Earlier this year we began compiling these ideas into a single, sharable resource that could be helpful to anyone engaged in an open education project. The framework we eventually settled on is a digital “Playbook” – a set of tactics and activities designed to help OER champions strategize, score, and win at successful, sustainable OER adoption.

We first test-drove the OER Champion Playbook at a couple of events earlier in the summer. After receiving enthusiastic feedback and ideas to help further expand this resource, today we’re officially introducing the Playbook to the world at large. Check it out!

The OER Champion Playbook is organized into five categories that correspond broadly to different stages of growing an OER initiative:

Making the Case for OER Measuring Impact with OER Building Awareness & Enthusiasm Supporting Faculty through Change Sustaining Change & Impact You can browse the Playbook for ideas, tips, how-to instructions, examples, and tools you can repurpose to plan and execute your own strategies aimed at achieving your goals for OER adoption.

We’ve also created a companion tool, an OER Champion Workbook that walks through a step-by-step process for planning and executing an effective OER initiative. If you share your email address with us when you enter the Playbook, we’ll send you a copy of the Workbook as well. 

The Playbook is a living document. We’ll continue adding to it as we collaborate with, learn from, and support many and diverse champions for OER. We’ll continue collecting and attributing wonderful resources we encounter along the path supporting OER adoption.

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