Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme Phase 3
The UK Open Educational Resources initiative, led jointly by JISC and the Higher Education Academy on behalf of HEFCE, has now entered a third year. Building on two previous phases (UKOER1, UKOER2) work is now underway in 2011-12 to support the continued application of OER and related activity and processes to issues and challenges across the English HE (including HE in FE) sector and related areas.
Phase 3 encompasses a number of activities managed by JISC and the Higher Education Academy. These include:
Communications and dissemination work
Including the UKOER Infokit and a series of institutional seminars.
New: briefing paper for senior managers.
OER Phase 3 "Themes" projects
These projects will investigate the use of OER approaches to work towards particular strategic, policy and societal goals. Projects commenced on 17th October 2011, and will run for one year.
| Lead Institution | Project |
Project blog | Funding |
|---|
| University of Oxford |
Great Writers |
X |
£127,108 |
| Southampton Solent University |
Opening Up a Future in Business |
X |
£41,459 |
| Doncaster College |
REaCTOR |
X |
£195,000 |
| De Montfort University |
HALS OER |
X |
£199,982 |
| University of the Arts, London |
ALTO UK |
X |
£198,189 |
| University of Nottingham |
PARiS |
X |
£139,286 |
| University of Oxford |
Sesame |
X |
£98,936 |
| Coventry University |
COMC |
X |
£51,899 |
| Newcastle University |
PublishOER |
X |
£153,334 |
| University of Southampton |
FAVOR |
X |
£144,294 |
| University of Cambridge |
ORBIT |
|
£200,000 |
| Sheffield Hallam University |
Digital Futures in Teacher Education |
X |
£196,672 |
| University of Liverpool |
CORE-SET |
X |
£126,276 |
UKOER rapid innovation projects
Short technical projects.
Evaluation and Synthesis project
Findings from all three phases of UKOER are fully documented at the E&S wiki, managed by a team led from Glasgow Caledonian University.
Support for institutional change
Including an institutional change academy project , support for embedding the findings from existing work and a set of projects developing materials for staff development regarding OER.
Technical support led by JISC CETIS, IPR support led by the OER IPR project.
Other associated work
Further planned work
We hope to be shortly announcing a number of opportunities to carry out a number of studies and projects linked to the theme of OER.