2. Develop Ways to Collect Your Case Study Data

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Once you have determined your initial questions, you can move into the development of tools to collect data that inform those questions. Each OER project has unique people, practices and ways of communicating internally and externally. The tools and examples below provide a way to help you start to develop instruments for collecting data that are realistic to your project, your ways of working, and to the resources that you have available.

Tools and Examples

Scan the External Environment

Take Inventory of Internal Expertise

Exercise: Identify Data Collection Tools

Practical Guide: Write Survey and Interview Questions

Example: Survey Protocols--Use and User Engagement

Example: Survey Protocol--Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement

Example: Interview Protocol--Content Authoring

Example: Interview Protocol--The Concept of Open

Example: Interview Protocol--Content Use and Reuse

Example: Interview Protocol--Funding Model Sustainability

Example: Log File Analysis Template

Contents

OER Case Study Framework

Why Do a Case Study?

Overview of the Framework Components

1. Determine Your Burning Case Study Questions

2. Develop Ways to Collect Your Case Study Data

Scan the External Environment
Take Inventory of Internal Expertise
Identify Data Collection Tools
Write Survey and Interview Questions
Example: Survey Protocols--Use and User Engagement
Example: Survey Protocol--Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement
Example: Interview Protocol--Content Authoring
Example: Interview Protocol--The Concept of Open
Example: Interview Protocol--Content Use and Reuse
Example: Interview Protocol--Funding Model Sustainability
Example: Log File Analysis Template

3. Collect Data to Answer Your Case Study Questions

4. Work with Your Data to Develop Insights

5. Integrate Case Study Insights into Practice

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