@Lena Thanks for raising the importance of addressing this leader / manager gap. I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
What is it that a leader / manager needs to know about open education? How do they find out?
And given my insight from yesterday that “open is best understood through doing” what are the actions open education actions leaders and managers can take? What does, “doing open education”, entail for a leader / manager?
Today while perusing the OEWeek Day 4 Events and Assets I tried to put myself in the shoes of a Leader / Manager. I imagined being responsible for systems, processes, and policies and wanting to understand and do open education associated with those responsibilities. What does that look like?
I began to wonder, Could an open education learning and doing path be assembled for Leaders / Managers from the OEWeek program? If I am a leader / manager which events and assets are for me? Which ones pertain to systems, processes, and policies?
I acknowledge that adopting a leader / manager mindset for choosing what to engage in from the OEWeek program is a dramatically different strategy than the one @cogdog shared yesterday but it was fascinating to bring that lens to OEWeek and see what emerged.
I invite you all to try this for yourself. Take on the persona of a leader / manager. What OEWeek events and assets would you choose?
I think there is a lot there to choose from.
Which leads me to wonder about this gap.
To cross a gap you have to want to.
Perhaps the challenge is not so much that there is a gap but rather an absence of will.
Perhaps what is needed is not gap filling but motivation raising?