{"id":13272,"date":"2018-05-24T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/?p=13272"},"modified":"2019-03-30T05:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:11:11","slug":"faculty-focused-project-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/faculty-focused-project-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"FACULTY-FOCUSED PROJECT PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:22%;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:22%;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:46;line-height:1.13;\">Use this play to:<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plan, organize, and track your progress using this project plan designed to guide and support faculty members through a successful OER adoption process. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-button.button-1 {border-radius:1px;}<\/style><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type btn-scaling\" target=\"_self\" href=\"\/champion-playbook\/supporting-faculty\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">See More Plays<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - 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( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-button.button-3 {border-radius:1px;}<\/style><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default button-3 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type btn-scaling\" target=\"_self\" href=\"\/contact\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">Ask a Lumen Expert<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #e6e6e6;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:30px;padding-right:22%;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:22%;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:46;line-height:1.13;\">Running the Play<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><b>Running the Play<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A project plan is an essential tool to orchestrate and keep track of all the moving pieces in your OER initiative, especially working with the faculty members who are central to your success. A good project plan can help you stay organized and focused on what needs to happen both near-term and longer term to help your faculty members feel well-supported and successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Plan Components<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create a project plan that supports the goals of your initiative over a given time frame (e.g. the term of a grant, an academic year, a strategic planning phase, etc.). To align with the academic calendar, consider designing a term-by-term rollout plan. This will help you keep track of the preparation, training, coaching, and milestones you need to put in place to ensure you\u2019re meeting your targets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can download and adapt this sample project plan to fit the goals and time frame of your OER initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Milestones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Build your project plan around that will help both your initiative and individual faculty members stay on track as they prepare to teach OER courses. For each term of your rollout, these milestones might include: <\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Ideal Timing <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(ahead of term start)<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>Milestone<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">6-12 months<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>Confirm hand-raisers: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who will participate? How are you getting the word out to generate interest? <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">6-10 months<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>Kickoff training\/workshop<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: What process will you use to orient people and get them started?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4-6 months<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>Course commitments:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Which courses will be shifting to OER? Which instructors? How many sections? <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3-6 months<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>Course materials selected:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What course materials will faculty be using? Have they confirmed the materials will meet their needs? Have they confirmed how they will deliver materials to students (e.g. via LMS, platform, etc.)? <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2-4 weeks<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>Course content loaded:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> When will content be loaded and ready-to-teach in the selected platform?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Classes start<\/span><\/td>\n<td><b>Course start date: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When will classes begin?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 500\"><strong>Tips: Supporting Faculty<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Change culture: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look for ways to emphasize and drive cultural change around open.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Adjust policy: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify how institutional policy can further support OER adoption, and work with campus administrators to enact OER-friendly policies. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Work as a team: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assemble a broad support team to help faculty through the adoption process: librarians, learning technologists, instructional designers, and so forth. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1RAg_p5o9q_563QXSlUMf8pj3v_DVLlCa-j9M2BnHmv4\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Define the roles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> each member of the team will play, and engage this team in defining your project plan. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Choose your timing: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Choose timing when faculty and leaders can collaborate and plan together (e.g. not end of May). <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Plan for a prep term: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Structure your project plan to allow for a term of training \/ working \/ preparation before expecting faculty to teach a new OER course.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Support for all:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Make OER course adoption open to all with tools and support. Don\u2019t require people to jump through hoops or wait in line to try out OER. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Tips: Course Planning<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Early-adopter mentors: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recruit very early adopters to mentor and consult with peers as they\u2019re curating their OER courses. Peer-to-peer sharing and support can make a huge difference. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Ready-to-adopt course options:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Make complete, ready-to-adopt courses available for easy review and adoption. This can make the initial step towards OER much less intimidating. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Tips: Project Management<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apply these best practices of project management to help your initiative progress smoothly. <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schedule monthly check-ins with faculty and support teams keep everyone focused on goals and aligned with the common plan. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use norming to help faculty members understand about where they should be at any point in the process. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Share unique best practices, to encourage cross-pollenization about what works at your campus, with your faculty and culture. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Address common challenges and obstacles that threaten to slow everyone down. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create a shared sense of progress and success, with opportunities to celebrate individual and collective achievements. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Resources<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resource: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1RAg_p5o9q_563QXSlUMf8pj3v_DVLlCa-j9M2BnHmv4\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adoption Activities and Roles<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Description: Activities and roles faculty, librarians, and instructional designers may play in supporting OER adoption<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Template: OER Initiative Project Plan<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Description: A project planning template you can adapt to fit your initiative, milestones, and timeline (Google Spreadsheet) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:30px;padding-right:22%;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:22%;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:46;line-height:1.13;\">Helpful Resources<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#e6e6e6;padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-4 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:46;line-height:1.13;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1RAg_p5o9q_563QXSlUMf8pj3v_DVLlCa-j9M2BnHmv4\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adoption Activities and Roles<\/a><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1RAg_p5o9q_563QXSlUMf8pj3v_DVLlCa-j9M2BnHmv4\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Document\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #e6e6e6;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:30px;padding-right:22%;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:22%;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>Attributions:<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/yN4O7XwWoyY?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rawpixel<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/company-faculty-support?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":13319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,203],"tags":[209,221,64,56,205,212,222],"class_list":["post-13272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playbook","category-supporting-faculty","tag-champion","tag-faculty-plan","tag-oer","tag-open-educational-resources","tag-playbook","tag-professional-development","tag-project"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}