Structure of the Strategic. Workshops By creating the workshops, SURF and the Open Education SIG aimed to assist participating higher education institutions in developing their vision or policy regarding open and online education (Schuwer et al., 2013). A second goal of the workshops focused on the sharing of knowledge andexpertise. The strategic workshops were held at the various institutions, with a minimum of 10 and maximum of 45 participants. All workshops were coordinated and led by the same moderator, who was accompanied by a pool of moderators and speakers, mostly experts from the Open Education SIG. By offering tailor-made workshops, SURF and the Open Education SIG attempted to tailor the content as closely as possible to the knowledge and needs present within the institution, in order to maximise the results achieved during a single morning/ afternoon session. Institutionscouldchoose between an informative workshop, one that assists with the formation of an opinion on open and online education, or a workshop aimed at the development of a concrete strategy. In practice, all workshops given turned out to be an amalgam of the first two types. In order to xxxxxx the individual character of each workshop, the coordinator and one or more moderators held an assessment interview with each institution beforehand. During these interviews, the context of the strategic workshop was discussed through questions such as: What is the reason for wanting the workshop? What does the institution aim to achieve with the workshop? What is the participants’ current level of knowledge and experience when it comes to open and online education? What results do they have in mind? The overall outline of a strategic workshop is as follows: - Welcome by a member of the Executive Board, a Xxxx or director of education. - Introduction by the coordinator. - Plenary presentation (sometimes two or three) by speakers/guest speakers. Topic: what are Open Educational Resources, what is Open Education, and how can these influence higher education? - Interactive brainstorming session in groups on a specific question. For example: What is the potential impact of open and online education on the institution itself? Or: What opportunities or possibilities can you envisage for the institution? - Break - Second brainstorming session on concrete lines of action. Is there any room for experiments? What projects can be started? - Conclusion with feedback on results, and agreementsregardingfollow- up.
