This page has now been updated to include projects from all three phases of the UKOER Programme and is incorporated into the UKOER guides and toolkits  page. Please go there for up to date information. Thanks

Guidance and support

Many projects highlighted the need for good guidance and support for staff in a range of areas and several produced their own marterials. These ranged from workshop activities, toolkits, screencasts, FAQs and guidance documents. Whilst some of this guidance is specific to an institution they are likely to be very useful to the wider community.

General introductions to OERs

• OER staff development workshop - supported by Cloudworks Nov 2009  and Analysis of workshop evaluation questionnaire (Open Exeter, University of Exeter with support from the Open University)
• Staff training sessions summary (OpenSpires project, University of Oxford)
• OER Basics (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• FAQs (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• Open Educational resources at Leicester (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• FAQs (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Survey results of OER staff development workshop evaluation (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Guidelines for evaluating value of materials for use in the OER Project (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Joint staff OER guide booklet led by Leeds Metropolitan University with contributions by others - (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Releasing Open Educational resources, including how to clear a resource for open release, dealing with 3rd party content, Creative Commons licensing and how to upload/download resources to Flickr, Scribd, Slideshare and YouTube CORE-Materials Project)
• Humbox guide to oers (Humbox Project)
• STEM OER Guidance Wiki This wiki constitutes a collection of guidance documentation on all aspects of Open Educational Resources (OER), produced by the STEM project teams from a number of Higher Education Academy/JISC OER pilot projects, and is based on the teams' combined experiences working with practising academics to explore the issues surrounding OER production and release. The resource has been designed as a starting point for those interested in OER, and contains a general overview, information on intellectual property rights, packaging and uploading resources, evaluating suitability of resources and ensuring their promotion and sustainability.
• OER Briefing Paper - Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource (OER) - (Skills for Scientists Project)
• OER MEDEV: 14 scenarios/use cases (66 more planned) (MEDEV Project)
• OER-CSAP toolkit (CSAP Project)
• OER-CSAP six partner case studies (CSAP Project)

Guidance on producing materials

• Creating and formatting documents for e-readers using ePub: a comprehensive guide on how to create and edit existing documents into ePub files for use on e-readers and other devices. (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Screencast tutorials on producing podcasts - (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)

• Pencils and Pixels: Publishing OERs using WordPress (and EPrints) - (Chemistry FM Project, University of Lincoln)

• Student as producer and student IPR (Chemistry FM project, University of Lincoln)

Guidance on legal issues

• Identifying provenance of learning materials - guidelines for Academics Open Exeter Project, University of Exeter)
• FAQs on Copyright - series of MP3 podcasts  Who owns copyright?  How long does copyright last?  Where would you inquire about copyright clearance?  What resources are covered by copyright?  Web pages and copyright    Movies and copyright  Music and copyright (OpenStaffs Project, Staffordshire University)
• Guide to Copyright (OpenStaffs, Staffordshire University)
• OERs - Copyright, Intellectual Property and Licensing Guidance (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• BROME take down policy   (BROME Project)
• OOER MEDEV toolkits: including: Patient and non-patient consent; IPR/copyright; Institutional policy; Internationalisation; Pedagogy/QA; Resource discovery;Resource upload (OOER and MEDEV Projects)
• GEES Teaching Resources to help with Copyright Clearance in C-change:  GEES Teaching resources (GEES Project)

Guidance on hosting and deposit

• JorumOpen Help Guides include helpsheets on depositing, adding and amending metadata, and the Licence Guide for JorumOpen
• JorumOpen FAQs 
• the Jorum Community Bay includes a JorumOpen and OER discussion forum, and a series of vidcasts on using JorumOpen
• Making resources discoverable presentation (BERLIN Project, University of Nottingham)

Guidance on using materials

• 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)
• Downloading and using the re-packaged interactive Flash content from CORE-Materials (CORE-Materials Project)

Guidance on marketing

• Series of videos to support those using the web to highlight open content  MMTV: Making XML Site Maps:  MMTV: Registering on multiple domains  ; MMTV: Twitter:   MMTV: Tweet Deck  (MMTV Project, University of Westminster)
• Raising awareness of content: MMTV newspaper articles on awareness-raising processes: Twitter,  Social Networking     Marketing