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OpenEd14: Achieving the
Potential of Open
Creativity with Control:
Improving the quality of open
education research through a
blended project management
environment
Gary Elliott-Cirigottis
Claire Walker
How do you create the right project
environment to
• accommodate the CREATIVITY
required to discover brilliance
But
• also provide the CONTROL that
delivers what was requested?
Our Hypotheses Keyword Hypothesis
Performance OER improve student performance/satisfaction
Openness People use OER differently from other online materials
Access OER widen participation in education
Retention OER can help at-risk learners to finish their studies
Reflection OER use leads educators to reflect on their practice
Finance OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions
Indicators Informal learners use a variety of indicators when selecting OER
Support Informal learners develop their own forms of study support
Transition OER support informal learners in moving to formal study
Policy OER use encourages institutions to change their policies
Assessment Informal assessments motivate learners using OER
Traditional waterfall/planned approach
– assumes events are predictable and
activities well-understood, follows
sequential flow, phases once complete
won’t be re-visited.
This is research – you don’t know what
you’re going to find
Project Management Challenge 1
Project Co-PILOT
• Distributed collaboration model
• Researchers assigned to specific
sector and collaborations
• This nature of model had risk of
lack of PM oversight of what project
was delivering.
Project Management Challenge 2
OER Impact Map
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• Need for all researchers to work
together to produce some of the
project products and deliverables
Project Management Challenge 3
• Risk of project having multiple
perspectives and voices rather than
one voice for some of the
overarching deliverables
• Global Research Remit
Project Management Challenge 4
• Size, scope and open approach
means possibility of researchers
following tangential ideas putting
coherence of research at risk
Blended
Methodology
Traditional
Project ManagementAgile Principles
Gary
Ellio
tt-Cirig
ottis
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Gary
Ellio
tt-Cirig
ottis
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So what's Agile?Agile = iterative, incremental
approach, learning from each
cycle, dynamically adjusts to
changing requirements.
4 Principles of agile (Beck et al, 2001):
1. individuals and interactions over process
and tools
2. working software over comprehensive
documentation
3. customer collaboration over contract
negotiation
4. responding to change over following a plan
Product Backlog
As prioritized by Product Owner
Sprint Backlog
Daily Scrum
Meeting 24 Hours
30 days
Product Increment
Backlog
tasks
Agile Scrum & Sprint Cycle
Sprint Cycle
Claire Walker CC-BY
Claire Walker CC-BY
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4Initiation Project Close
Traditional Project Management Methodology
Stage 1
So what did we learn?
• We need the foundation of the
traditional method
• Easier to change focus in agile
• We delivered better quality via blended
• Clearer perception of project status in
agile
Questions?
Thank you for Listening!
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Twitter: @OER_Hub
in service of The Open University
in service of The Open University
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