Open Educational Resources Advocacy Toolkit

Your OER advocacy plan will need to include a number of key elements, which will be discussed in more detail throughout this section of the Toolkit. Resources designed to help you understand these elements, what you need to consider in your plan and what a completed plan should look like include:

• An action plan template [43KB] – Use this template (adapted from the SPARC OER Advocacy Plan Worksheet by SPARC, used under a CC BY 4.0 licence) to start your plan and make it relevant to your situation and institution.
• Explanations of elements of the action plan:
  • identifying OER advocacy opportunities
  • micro activities for quick wins
  • gathering evidence for your action plan
  • identifying barriers to OER adoption
  • identifying partners and stakeholders
  • sample scenarios that provide opportunities for advocacy.
• Sample completed advocacy action plans to illustrate how to write an action plan for a specific audience.