OER Digital Infrastructure Update
Updates, reflections and next steps on digital infrastructure issues in UK’s OER Programme Read more
Tag Archives: amber
Connecting people through open content
In open educational resources and open access research, there is a strong emphasis about how they can support the exchange of content and understanding between people, with a focus on academic-to-academic, teacher-to-learner, and sometimes learner-to-learner. In this blog post I’d like to unpack how OER and OA can help connect academics with the public and … Read more
OER 3 Grant Funding Call
The HE Academy and JISC is pleased to announce a new grant funding call. Grant Funding Call OER Phase 3 This marks the start of Phase 3 of the Open Educational Resources Programme which is run jointly between JISC and the HE Academy. This Call is the first step in building the work of the … Read more
Funding round-up: learning materials
This post is a round-up of current funding opportunities as they relate to the management of learning materials. This is just highlights particular sections of the Calls where they might be of interest to readers with responsibilities for learning materials. Please check each Call for eligibility requirements as they differ according to funding streams. Highlights … Read more
Marketing and other dirty words
I have been thinking a lot recently about how to move beyond the rhetoric of “open equals good” towards identifying where open approaches help us meet key business cases. A notable quote from the Power of Open book launch was that “open isn’t a business model, its a part of a business model”. I’m seeing … Read more
Choosing Open Licences
I thought it might be useful to round up some recent JISC-funded resources to support licensing decisions. The emphasis in these tools is on open licences because that’s what I’ve been most involved with, but I’d love to hear of other key resources to help people choose licenses. To get started, there is an overview … Read more
OER and Jorum News May11
It’s interesting times in the field of OERs / open content for education. There have been several key events, from Open Nottingham, Open Course Ware Consortium (OCWC) in the States, and this week is OER11 . There are very lively debates to be had, and a huge amount of experience to be learnt from. Whether … Read more
OER and the aggregation question
Over the years, web thinking about bringing content together has shifted its focus between portals, repositories and registries. Along with others, recently I’ve been using the term “aggregations” to try to avoid the definition potholes in that road. The Resource Discovery Task Force is exploring the role and mechanisms for effective aggregations to support research. … Read more
Making the most of open content: understanding use (Part II)
There is a huge variety of free content on the web of use for teaching, learning and research. In my recent post on Making the most of open content I argued that we need to understand use in order to make open content release more sustainable. This post is part two, an attempt to deepen … Read more
Making the most of open content: why we need to understand use
At the JISC conference next week I have organised a session on “Making the most of open content: stories from the frontier” “Over the years JISC has funded many projects to support sustainable open working and release of content. So what are people doing with all this “stuff”? This session will bring together ideas of … Read more