As open education begins to achieve traction, state- and system-level initiatives can play a significant role in developing policy and implementation paths to achieve broader goals around affordability, access, student success, and knowledge-sharing. They can establish models, align incentives, and provide infrastructure shared across system members. They can lend legitimacy and offer support, funding, scale, and collaboration opportunities around open education. But because every system is different, there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to defining a winning strategy and structure for effective initiatives that achieve meaningful impact with open education. This panel discussion invites three architects of statewide initiatives to share their distinctive visions and strategic choices aiming for system-level impact. They will also compare operational approaches and lessons learned for achieving large-scale impact with open education.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Understand alternate visions and implementation models for operationalize support for open education on a statewide level
- Find useful artifacts and resources practitioners and leaders may find helpful in architecting and building their own open education initiatives
- Recognize considerations and success factors for implementing OER effectively at scale in complex organizations
- Apply lessons learned from experienced practitioners who are leading impactful statewide initiatives supporting open education within varied political, fiscal, and organizational environments
- Develop approaches for ensuring open education initiatives are designed in the service of broader strategic goals of state and system-level leadership
