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In this final section, you will use the Roadmap to think about how you can share your work and what it will need to be sustained. Use any gaps from the Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap to determine your next steps.
At this point, you've scoped out your project, considered the support you will need, and thought about how this work can impact your students. This final section will help you start your journey, thinking about how you will share your work more widely and identifying some initial steps you can take. If you plan to do open work, it's essential to consider where and how you will share it once it's complete. It can be helpful to think about this in terms of both the process of sharing and communicating it to a broad audience and where you will share the product of this work.
If you're engaging in this work, there's a good chance you will want or need to communicate its presence and value to one or more audiences. This may include sharing it within your disciplinary community, either on campus or more broadly through presentations, scholarly publications, or email lists. You may also want to contact the public relations team about a news story. For promotion and tenure documentation or job applications and interviews, use this matrix to help you communicate the impact of your work.
Similarly, your students may want/need to communicate their work on it as they proceed to the job market or graduate school. Are there ways of sharing it that will benefit them too? Do students know how to describe this work on their resume?
You can share your work openly for others to use in many places. This may include a personal or departmental website, an institutional repository, a disciplinary repository (e.g., CORE), and/or an OER repository (e.g., OER Commons). Suppose you aim to make your work discoverable to many people. In that case, you may consider sharing it in multiple venues where different audiences will likely encounter it.
This is also a good point to revisit the concept of Creative Commons Licenses. Are you licensing your work in a way that respects your ownership and that of your students while also permitting others to use your work meaningfully? This license generator will guide you through that decision-making process.
We're on the last leg of your Roadmap journey. You've put all of this work into identifying the various facets of this project, but now it's time to pull it all together and identify what you will need to sustain this project and determine your action plan for the next steps.
Regardless of the type of open pedagogy project you've used this Roadmap on, all projects require you to have an eye towards sustaining them by planning for iteration. Some projects may need you to set a maintenance schedule for keeping information current or updating hyperlinks. For others, students might not meet the learning outcomes, or you may realize that certain aspects of the projects require more scaffolding. For projects where students collaborate in groups, not all student groupings may be successful. Some projects may rely on funding and/or other human or digital resources that may no longer be available. In completing this Roadmap, you may have discovered that you will need collaborators to sustain it. Identifying your project's needs and planning for these road bumps is vital to maintaining your project.
This Roadmap is meant to be the basis for an action plan. Use it to guide your next steps. It's helpful to think about what you will/can do in the short-term, medium-term, and long term. You may find that the scope of your project is so enormous that you can only begin with a small portion of it in the near term. That's ok! It is essential to think about how that small piece fits into your long-term plan so that you can complete this project in a strategic, intentional that will be sustainable and see it through to fruition.
Module D2: Sustainability and Action Plan
"The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap" by Christina Riehman-Murphym and Bryan McGeary is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.