Between 2009 and 2012 HEFCE invested in this area through the JISC and the Academy to promote the sharing and reuse of learning resources, and to provide a reputational benefit to UK higher education through the promotion of high quality learning resources worldwide.
During the UKOER Programme more than 80 projects benefited from funding, many with multiple partners across a wide range of sectors. The institutions involved experienced significant benefits and the UK HE sector as a whole has experienced increased academic reputation as a result of the work undertaken by this programme.
See also
The programme highlighted several benefit models for institutions, individuals and subject communities and a wide range of outcomes are reported in the Pilot phase Synthesis and Evaluation report McGill, L., Beetham, H., Falconer, I. and Littlejohn, A. JISC/HE Academy OER Programme JISC, 2010
Project outputs are of significant value to the wider community and to the following phase 2 projects:
Seven institutionally based projects were funded to openly release their existing learning resources free for use and re-purposing. Projects were expected to release at least the equivalent of one undergraduate course (360 credits).
Funded Institutional strand projects | |
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Coventry University | Open Content Employability Project |
Exeter University | Open Exeter |
Leeds Metropolitan University | Unicycle |
Leicester University | OTTER |
Nottingham University | BERLiN |
Oxford University | Open Spires |
Staffordshire University | OpenStaffs |
Eight individuals were funded to release high quality educational resources to support at least the equivalent of 30 credits.
Funded Individual Strand Projects | |
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University of York | Open Source Electronics Learning Tools |
University of Westminster | www.multimediatrainingvideos.com project |
University College Falmouth | openUCF |
Anglia Ruskin University | NumBat (Numeracy Bank) |
University College London | Open Learning Environment Early Modern Low Countries History |
University of Central Lancashire | EVOLUTION: Educational and Vocational Objects for Learning Using Technology In Open Networks |
University of Lincoln | Chemistry.FM |
Bradford University | Open Educational Resources Project(OERP) |
Fourteen consortia were funded which were led by an Academy Subject Centre and including at least one professional body or national subject association and several institutional faculties, departments, or schools working in one or more of the relevant subject areas.
A range of resources were made available to support the projects taking part in the pilot phase:
JISC legal resources, includes video podcast and short video presentation.
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Projects/OpenEducationalResources.aspx
JISC CETIS resources including several key blog posts
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/UKOER_Support
Evaluation & synthesis pages - a good set of resource links to plunder, and the evaluation framework.
TechDis, general accessibility resources.
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/index.php?p=1
The Jorum Community Bay
Aims to support knowledge exchange and discussion on all aspects of sharing, re-use and repurposing of learning and teaching resources. The Jorum Community Bay provides links to a range of useful information, such as authoring and repurposing tools, case studies and discussion forums, including a JorumOpen and OER discussion forum.
The Jorum website also provides a range of support
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/support/support.html
a set of FAQs
SCORE (Open University)
http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5129
Netvibes page for the Institutional Strand
http://www.netvibes.com/hwilliamson#oer-institutional_projects Heather Williamson's amazing oer netvibes pages, aggregating blog posts and resources from projects. There's several tabs of OER goodness
REPRODUCE Programme
The JISC funded REPRODUCE programme, completed just before the pilot programme began, offers valuable information around repurposing and reusing existing learning and teaching materials http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningcapital/reproduce