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

Pilot Programme - OER Release

OER Programme Phase 2

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Phase 3 encompassed a number of activities which included:

 

OER Phase 3 "Themes" projects

These projects investigated how OER approaches can work towards particular strategic, policy and societal goals (October 2011 to October 2012)

 

Lead Institution	Project	Project blog	Funding
University of Oxford	Great Writers	X	£127,108
Southampton Solent University	Opening Up a Future in Business	X	£41,459
Doncaster College	REaCTOR	X	£195,000
De Montfort University	HALS OER	X	£199,982
University of the Arts, London	ALTO UK	X	£198,189
University of Nottingham	PARiS	X	£139,286
University of Oxford	Sesame	X	£98,936
Coventry University	COMC	X	£51,899
Newcastle University	PublishOER	X	£153,334
University of Southampton	FAVOR	X	£144,294
University of Cambridge	ORBIT		£200,000
Sheffield Hallam University	Digital Futures in Teacher Education	X	£196,672
University of Liverpool	CORE-SET	X	£126,276

 

Outcomes and lessons learned from these projects of work are described in the Phase 3 Synthesis and Evaluation Report McGill, L., Falconer, I., Littlejohn, A. and Beetham, H. JISC/HE Academy OER Programme:  JISC, 2011

 

UKOER rapid innovation projects

Small short technical projects funded from March to October 2012

• Attribute Images
• Bebop
• Breaking Down Barriers: Building a GeoKnowledge Community with Open Educational Resources (OER)
• CAMILOE (Collation and Moderation of Intriguing Learning Objects in Education)
• Developing Linked Data Infrastructures for OERs
• Improving Accessibility to Mathematical Teaching Resources
• Portfolio Commons
• Rapid Innovation Dynamic Learning Maps-Learning Registry (RIDLR)
• RedFeather (Resource Exhibition and Discovery)
• Sharing Paradata Across Widget Stores
• SPINDLE: Increasing OER discoverability by improved keyword metadata via automatic speech to text transcription
• SupOERGlue
• Synote Mobile
• Track OER: Tracking Open Educational Resources
• Xerte Experience Now Improved: Targeting HTML5 (XENITH)

 

Outcomes and lessons learned from these projects of work are included in the  Technology for Open Educational Resources - Into The Wild. Reflections on three years of the UK OER Programmes Edited by Amber Thomas, Lorna M. Campbell, Phil Barker and Martin Hawksey. October 2012

 

 

Communications and dissemination work

•     Briefing paper for senior managers

 

Evaluation and Synthesis project

 

Findings from all three phases of UKOER are fully documented at the Evaluation & Synthesis wiki , managed by a team led from Glasgow Caledonian University.

McGill, L., Falconer, I., Littlejohn, A. and Beetham, H. JISC/HE Academy OER Programme: Phase 3 Synthesis and Evaluation Report. JISC, 2011 https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/59707964/ukoer3FinalSynthesisReport

 

Support for institutional change

 

Including an institutional change academy project , support for embedding the findings from existing work and a set of projects developing materials for staff development regarding OER. 

 

Technical  support led by JISC CETIS, 

IPR  support led by the OER IPR project.