Open educational resources programme
Between April 2009 and April 2010, JISC and the Academy are supporting pilot projects and activities that support the open release of learning resources; for free use and repurposing worldwide.
UK press coverage for OER
The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Times Higher Education, The Independent, The Sunday Times.
Projects are expected to make a significant amount of existing learning resources freely available online, licensed in such away to enable them to be used and repurposed worldwide.
It is expected that funded projects will demonstrate a long term commitment to the release of OER resources. Projects are working towards the sustainability of long term open resources release via the adoption of appropriate business models to support this. Supporting actions may include modifications to institutional policies and processes, with the aim of making open resources release an expected part of the educational resources creation cycle.
As a part of this programme, support and advice on all aspects of open educational resource release will be offered. This will include guidance and advice from existing JISC services and other organisations and will cover issues around licensing, intellectual property rights, technical aspects such as the use of standards and metadata, and resource discovery. Programme support will benefit all of those interested in OER release, not just funded projects.
The evaluation of the pilot programme, including the synthesis of project outcomes, will be carried out by a team based at Glasgow Caledonian University
Funded projects
Further information
Wordle of project names (cc-by)