Talk:Open Education Practices: A User Guide for Organisations/Measuring Open Education

Reference ROI
Hello Leigh 1. can you link the paragraph below and the costs to the calculations and descriptions in the section on: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Education_Practices:_A_User_Guide_for_Organisations/Measuring_Open_Education#Gains.2C_savings_and_costs

It costs $4000 to train one person how to use social media to source, produce and publish open educational resources for their teaching practice. That person will go on to return $9188 worth of savings and gains to their organisation in the first year. ($4542 per year worth of brand awareness, $1031 per year in quality gains by sampling and reusing free content, and up to $3615 per year worth of savings in infrastructural and support costs by using free media publishing services). Multiply that by 10 staff over 3 years, $275640 is not a small number.

Taken from: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Education_Practices:_A_User_Guide_for_Organisations/Measuring_Open_Education#Otago_Polytechnic_Staff_Perspectives_on_the_Practice_of_Open_Education

--Bronwynh (talk) 04:25, 21 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Done leighblackall (talk) 01:30, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Clarify ROI
I figured out how you got to the $4000 and have added clarification in the section - but cannot for the life of me figure out the rest. You need to put all the totals presently showing in the introductory paragraph, clearly in each section with a brief explanation so it all makes sense without the readers having to do the sums themselves. --Bronwynh (talk) 04:25, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Well spotted Bron. Goes to show how few people are looking into this study if such a gaping hole has taken so long to be revealed. Basically I left all the numbers over on Wikieducator and forgot to transfer them across. Hopefully it makes much more sense now. leighblackall (talk) 03:39, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Add summary
Please tie up the section with a summary and lead into the next section.

An explanation of what you are trying to show is needed in the section: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Education_Practices:_A_User_Guide_for_Organisations/Measuring_Open_Education#Educational_outcomes

With a summary and lead in to the Staff perspectives research. --Bronwynh (talk) 04:25, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. leighblackall (talk) 03:39, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Reword enthnographic study finding
Also the information below is not shown in the research report displayed on the wiki - so needs to be reworded. The main finding appears to be that: "having a sound rationale of open education is likely to result in behaviours that are clearly aligned with open education practice". Unless there is something else in the pdf report which is not on the wiki.

How this approach to teaching practices impacts on senses of job satisfaction, motivation, and perceptions of teaching and learning performance (values) is determined from the study conducted by a third party research team, resulting in the report Otago Polytechnic Staff Perspectives on the Practice of Open Education. --Bronwynh (talk) 04:25, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. leighblackall (talk) 03:40, 6 October 2010 (UTC)