Module D1: Sharing Your Work Worksheet
Overview
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 to get started on your journey, thinking about how you’re going to share your work more widely and identifying some initial steps you can take. If you’re planning to do open work, it’s important to think about 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 how you will share it and communicate it to a wide audience as well as where you will share the product of this work.
Process
If you’re engaging in this work, there’s a good chance that you will want or need to communicate its presence and its 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 reach out to the public relations team about a news story. For promotion and tenure documentation or for 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?
Product
There are many places where you can share your work openly for others to use. 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). If your goal is to make your work discoverable to as many people as possible, you may want to consider sharing it in multiple venues where different audiences are likely to 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 in a meaningful way. This license generator will guide you through that decision-making process.
Activity
- Identify two potential ways that you can communicate your work to your relevant communities (e.g., your department, institution, disciplinary community).
- Identify two potential venues where can you share your finished product (e.g., personal or departmental website, institutional repository, disciplinary repository, OER repository).
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