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Table 1 Organizational challenges that are experienced as important for success of educational innovation projects (Schophuizen et al. 2018)

From: Educational innovation projects in Dutch higher education: bottom-up contextual coping to deal with organizational challenges

Cluster

Challenges

Online teaching

- The objective why to use OOE is unclear among teachers

- Merits of OOE are unclear to teachers

- Time available to teachers to develop OOE is scarce

- Preparing and teaching in traditional education requires a different skill set than for OOE, difference in workflow is often not recognized

- Teacher skills in online teaching are often absent/limited

- OOE teacher skill development not part of teacher professionalisation

- Consequences of open publication and re-use unclear among teachers

- Reluctance of teachers to share educational resources

- Changing role of the teacher

- Online interactions with students require different skills from teachers compared to traditional education

Support mechanisms

- Suitable technical facilities for recording and editing

- Lack of clear OOE policy on an institutional level

- Lack of organised ICT support

- Lack of a support department with OOE experience

- Lack of support of the university board for OOE initiatives

- Lack of infrastructures and support on these infrastructures for OOE