The third HEA Change Academy event for Embedding OER Practice took place on 19th June. Projects are now over half way through and teams are identifying the wider issues of support and resourcing needed to ensure their outcomes are sustainable. Continue reading Embedding OER Practice HEA AwayDay 19th June 2012
Educause have a useful page on open education and open educational resources at http://www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/Open%20Educational%20Resources%20OER/27863 In particular, their one page document Seven Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources at http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutOpenE/205913 contains a helpful rational for the use of oer Continue reading Seven Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources
The Open University offers over 600 free online courses from their LearningSpace site where all content is made available under a creative commons licence (see below). Creating Open Educational Resources is a 15 hour introductory course looking at the pedagogical Continue reading Creating Open Educational Resources from the Open University
Open Education Week will take place from 5-10 March 2012 online (www.openeducationweek.org) and in locally hosted events around the world. The objective is to raise awareness of the open education movement and open educational resources. Sustaining OER Activity: 8 March Continue reading Open Education Week 5-10 March 2012
Today was the start of a HEA Change Academy programme with the University of Lincoln. It is the first time the Change Academy has worked alongside an OER programme to embed policy and practice at institutional level, in this case Continue reading Change Academy Start-up meeting
The Embedding OER Practice project offers ideal opportunities for engaging with Web 2.0 tools such as social media. I’ve set up an email address for the project – oer@lincoln.ac.uk – which all team leaders can map to following the instructions Continue reading Social bookmarking useful OER sites with Delicious
Welcome to the Embedding Open Educational Resources blog. Embedding Open Educational Resources Practice in Institutions is a £50,000 project funded under the HEFCE/JISC/HEA OER Programme: Higher Education Institutional Change (HEIC) Strand. The aim is to support the embedding of Open Educational Resources Continue reading Embedding OER Practice in Institutions