Open Educational Resources Pilot
Status: Completed May 2010
Background
This project will make available teaching materials currently in use, under open licensing as open educational resources (OER). The Engineering Subject Centre will work in partnership with a range of higher education (HE) engineering departments and professional bodies. The project will capture the technical, logistical and legal processes undertaken in both traditional and innovative ways to build expertise and provide guidance for future developments.
Partners will include HE institutions as well as further education (FE) institutions teaching at HE level in order to capture material encapsulating a broad range of teaching styles, educational settings and levels and will include resources for learners in the workplace.
The Engineering Subject Centre will use its well established networks and strong links with the professional bodies to ensure that the project will have the maximum impact. This project will establish and evaluate a process for releasing open educational resources and assess the demand with a view to embedding the work within the Subject Centre’s future plans. All materials processed will be given the highest possible profile by employing the latest “web 2.0” services such as YouTube, Delicious, Flickr etc. and standards compliant packaging methods to maximise easy reuse via the JorumOpen repository.
My Role
My duties for this project will include:
- IPR Clearance or replacement of third party materials
- Submitting Resources and Metadata to JorumOpen
- Adding OERs to additional web services
- Clarifying OER policy at Institution
- Creating an OER Search Facility using APIs of web 2.0 dissemination platforms.
Publications
- Discovering OERs through RSS and APIs
Presented at Open Educational Resources International Symposium (UKOER10), London, July 2010
- Repositories and the Open Web: Reflections from the Core-Materials and OER Pilot Projects
Presented at CETIS Repositories and the Open Web, April 2010
- Pull Yourself Together! Remote searching of multiple sources to best present OER Materials
Rob Perace and Lisa J Rogers presented at OER10, Cambridge, March 2010
- Dissemination Of Open Educational Resources
Presented at OER Pilot Project Meeting, May 2009
- OER Workflow Diagram