Module D2: Sustainability and Action Plan Worksheet
Overview
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 of 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 require 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 are collaborating in groups, not all student groupings may be successful. Some projects may be reliant 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 in order to sustain it. Identifying your project’s needs and planning for these road bumps is key to sustaining 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 large that you can only begin with a small portion of it in the near-term. That’s ok! The important thing is to think about how that small piece fits into your long-term plan so that you can complete this project in a strategic, intentional way that will be sustainable and see it through to fruition.
Activity
- What are potential road bumps for your project’s sustainability and how can you plan for them?
- Prioritize your next steps for your action plan:
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- Look back at the gaps in your Roadmap to determine your projects needs: Identify what information you need to find, connections you want to make, or resources you want to gather in order to fill in those gaps and meet those needs.
- What are some actionable next steps you can take (after this workshop, next week, next month, next semester)?