Morning Sessions
Sustainable practice in OER
Sustainable practice is a key success factor in the creation and delivery of OERs. This session will focus on sustainability within institutional and consortia practice in releasing OER.
Download Presentations (PDF): Joss Winn (Lincoln University), Simon Thomson (Leeds Metropolitan University), Adam Mannis (Materials Subject Centre).
OER and academic reputation
Find out how HumBox has used a social networking approach to drive interest in OERs across a wide community of practitioners, and how the Economics Subject Centre have used expert-facilitated wikis to support quality and participation.
Download Presentations (PDF): Kate Borthwick and Alison Dickens (Humbox), Dr Bhagesh Sachania (Economics Subject Centre)
Promoting OER
Oxford University will demonstrate how their use of multiple delivery channels (podcasts.ox.ac.uk, JorumOpen, iTunes U, Mobile Oxford, WebLearn, virtual learning environment, and departmental websites) helped to maximise the impact and accessibility of their wide range of content and Russell Stannard from Westminster University will focus on how he uses social media to boost take-up of his own materials.
Download Presentations (PDF): Peter Robinson (Oxford University), Russell Stannard (Westminster University)
Evaluating the benefits of OER
This session will examine the early findings of a very diverse OER programme, and will share how Tom Browne at Exeter made a strategic business case for OER to senior university managers.
Download Presentations (PDF): Helen Beetham (Evaluation & Synthesis Team), Tom Browne (Exeter)
OER and intellectual property
This session offers an introduction to the Creative Commons(UK) 3.0 licenses, a summary of key legal and intellectual property questions and issues from UKOER projects and a chance to ask a panel of experts about intellectual property and licensing issues connected with OER.
Download Presentations (PDF): Prodromous Tsiavos (Creative Commons UK), Jason-Miles Campbell (JISC Legal), Naomi Korn (JISC IPR)