There are several issues relating to the many and varied cultures and sub cultures in the educational field. These include institutional/organisational culture, subject discipline related culture and professional cultures. Cultural issues often relate to perceptions of different staff and learners and their understanding of the benefits of opening their own, or using others' teaching and learning materials. This issue is described in more detail on the following pages: Cultural considerations ; Stakeholders and benefits

The following resources have been produced by the UKOER programme projects and these illustrate and highlight some of the cultural issues. Many of the resources include results of staff surveys, focus groups and workshop discussions. Most projects discovered that staff had very little initial understanding of OER and many had to spend significant time explaining and identifying benefits to the various stakeholder groups. 

Staff attitudes

• Staff attitudes to OERs survey and presentation Opening Up: Staff attitudes to open learning OCWC Global 7th May 2010 (BERLIN Project, University of Nottingham)

• The Challenge of OER to Academic Practice Abstract and Presentation at OER10 Conference March 2010 (Open Exeter, University of Exeter)

• MEI, Q., BOYLE, T.. Dimensions of Culturally Sensitive Factors in the Design and Development of Learning Objects. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, North America, 2010, dec. 2010. Available at: http://jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/view/2010-6. (Open Exeter, University of Exeter)
• Summary of staff focus group activities (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
• Staff survey results (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford
• Stakeholder views on Open Educational Resources: research report (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Small sample staff survey results (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University) 
• OER Focus Group Handout (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• openSpace forums (openspace Project)
• Understanding of OERs (OSTRICH Project)

Staff development

• Developing a local reward and recognition strategy and discussions on a national agreement - (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Survey results of OER staff development workshop evaluation (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• LLAS e-learning symposium, 28/29 January, 2010. workshop on publishing teaching resources and enhancing your professional reputation on day 1; while day 2 featured a presentation on innovative use of HumBox (Humbox Project)
• Lifting the Lid: sharing in the humanities community using the Humbox, OER Conference, Nottingham, 25 November, 2009. (HumBox Project)
• OERs - Towards Understanding and Future Policy in Art, Design and Media Higher Education: Focus Group and Survey Report (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• ADM-OER Project Survey Summary 1 and ADM-OER Project Survey Summary 2 (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
• Peer Review Workshop, September 2009 edited videos (HumBox Project)
• openSpace critiquing guidelines (openspace Project)
• 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)