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OER use, reuse, repurposing - practical resources and guides

Measuring use

• Usability evaluation of U-now by OER Africa (BERLIN Project - University of Nottingham)

• OER user satisfaction survey - (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Stakeholder views on Open Educational Resources: research report (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Survey results of OER staff development workshop evaluation (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• A review of the rating and reviewing features of OER repositories (C-SAP Collections Project)
• Report on the findings from C-SAP survey focusing on patterns of use of online resources in social sciences (C-SAP Collections Project)
• Online survey of methods teachers’ use of online resources was carried out using Bristol Online Surveys. The report is available on SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/CSAPSubjectCentre/csap-oer2-collections-project-survey-report (CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Report summarising the findings of the front-end user testing and focus group carried out in July 2011 at the University of Manchester (CSAP CASCADE Project)
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Supporting use and re-use

see also accessibility section in UKOER Guides Technical Aspects

• Guidance on how to engage with, re-use and share openSpace OERs   (openSpace Project, University College Falmouth)
• Guidance on how to engage with openSpace sessions and units  (openSpace Project, University College Falmouth)
• Mindmap facility for navigating a course and related OERs (Chemistry.FM Project) 
• Using podcasting in learning and teaching - series of podcasts (OpenSpires Project - University of Oxford)
• Downloading and using the re-packaged interactive Flash content from CORE-Materials (CORE-Materials Project)
• A hand-out on finding and using open third party content in learning materials (released as an OER) (OSTRICH Project)
• The challenges of supporting learning in the workplace: the use of OERs Joint conference SW Library Service and JISC Regional Support Centre Workshop: resource sheet - Presentation and workshop, Learn to Share to Learn, March 2011 (Learning from WOeRK Project)
• OSIER project: extended resource description template Template document for writing an extended description of a resources in OSIER, including these headings: 1. Introduction and background; 2. Context; 3. Evaluation and feedback; 4. Potential for re-use and re-purposing; 5. Inclusivity, usability and accessibility; 6. Other information. MS Word .doc (OSIER Project)
• OSIER project - accessibility and usability guidelines The resource contains a short accessibility and usability checklist, and a more detailed set of guidelines. Wherever possible, OSIER resources should conform to the criteria in the short checklist. Both documents are supplied as word processor files (.docx) and PDF (OSIER Project)

Finding OER

• Searching for OERs online: the challenge of usability(CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Obstacles to creating and finding OER: the case of research methods in the social sciences. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. 05/12) (CSAP CASCADE Project)
• Lunch time open access session, with other Plymouth-based OER projects, Finding, using and developing open educational resources (OERs) for your modules. University of Plymouth Teaching and Learning Directorate, June 2011 (Learning from WOeRK Project)
• Hand-out with advice on finding OER: http://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/resources/documents/finding-online-resources-help-and-guidance-tutors (SESAME Project)
• How to find and use OER - training video (SESAME Project)

• Blog posts from staff about finding OER:
• Down-the-rabbit-hole-discovering-open-educational-resources 
• the-satisfaction-of-a-reliable-and-interesting-source/ (Great Writers Inspire Project)