These pages will be developed over the next few months as the projects funded by the joint JISC/Higher Education Academy Open Educational Resources Pilot programme (April 2009 - April 2010) draw to a close and make their outputs available.

Outputs include a range of guidance documents, articles, reports and information around the stories of the journey taken by projects as they endeavoured to release existing content openly. Each project also has a website and blog.

OER release

The pilot programme's focus was on OER Release and was interested in addressing several issues. This section inlcudes key documents from projects that speak to the broad questions about oer release and what we have learned during the pilot programme. More specific outputs are listed in the following appropriate section/s.

• Pilot programme outputs: Developing, managing and sharing OERs

• Pilot programme outputs: Business cases and benefits

• Pilot programme outputs: Guidance and support

• Pilot programme outputs: Cultural issues

• Pilot programme outputs: Institutional issues

• Pilot programme outputs: Legal issues

• Pilot programme outputs: Technical and Data Management

• Pilot programme outputs: Quality issues

• Pilot programme outputs: Pedagogy and End use issues

Project Evaluation documents

• The BERLiN experience - academic focus group feedback report: BERLiN Project (University of Nottingham
• The BERLiN staff survey report BERLiN Project (University of Nottingham
• Open Exeter Project Final evaluation report - University of Exeter 
• OpenSpires Project Evaluation Framework - University of Oxford
• OTTER Project Evaluation reports - University of Leicester
• Academic advisor evaluation report (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Evaluation framework mapping (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• C-change Project Evaluation Report (C-change Project, Subject Centre for Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences (GEES)
• Baseline and change survey results (Humbox Project)

Presentations at events led by or including significant input from OER Pilot Projects

• The Challenge of OER to Academic Practice OER10, Cambridge, 22-24 March, 20 (OpenExeter, University of Exeter)
• Learning Futures Festival (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Poscasting in Assessment: New technology in Higher Education Research (PANTHER) Workshop (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• Presentations from the OTTER Project (University of Leicester)
• Presentations from the OpenSpires Project University of Oxford
• The HEA/JISC funded Chemistry FM project: Opening Education and Teaching in Public (Chemistry FM Project, University of Lincoln)
• Opening Resources, Opening Minds OER10, Cambridge, 22-24 March, 20 (HumBox project)
• Out of the Box: Using HumBox for Sharing and Showcasing Teaching Resources, University of Sheffield, 26 February, 2010.  Official launch of the HumBox
• Creating OE for Art, Design, Media & Performance Students paper delivered at Open Ed 2009 (Vancouver) (OpenSpace Project, University of Falmouth)
• HumBox collection: Project Discussions and Partner Presentations (Humbox Project)
• Publishing your teaching resources and enhancing your professional impact. Humbox pre event workshop, LLAS e-learning symposium, on the 28th January, 2010 (Humbox Project)
• Welcome to the Humbox presentation at OER10, University of Cambridge March 2010 (Humbox Project)

Presentations by the OER Synthesis and Evaluation Team on Pilot Programme outcomes

• The power of the collective

• Keynote by Prof. Allison Littlejohn at OER10, Cambridge March 2010 which drew on her experience of leading the synthesis and evaluation project

• Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open

• Workshop by Helen Beetham, Lou Mcgill and Allison Littlejohn at OER10, Cambridge March 2010

• Open sharing for learning communities

• Interactive workshop by Helen Beetham and Lou McGill at SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference, Leeds May 2010

General project outputs with overarching themes

• BERLiN Project at the University of Nottingham
• Open Exeter Project - Progress reports and minutes, University of Exeter
• Browne, T.J. & Newcombe, M. (2009) "Open educational resources: A new creative space", in Same places, different spaces. Proceedings ascilite Auckland 2009  and the presentation -  University of Exeter
• Openess, OERs and OTTER (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
• OpenSpires Project presentation - University of Oxford
• OER Strategy Document   - (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University)
• Discussions online and at programme events – (Unicycle Project, Leeds Metropolitan University) 
• 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.
• OER Briefing Paper - Turning a Resource into an Open Educational Resource (OER) - (Skills for Scientists Project)

Press and magazine coverage

OER has been covered very positively in the UK press.

• TimesOnline - 'Self-learners' creating university of online
• Times Higher Education Supplement - Get it out in the open
• Guardian.co.uk - Any student, any subject, anywhere
• Telegraph.co.uk - Online education grows apace

Two articles appeared in the online THES in April 2010 (Times Higher educational supplement) focussed on the MMTV Project using social wreb tools to market OERs:

• Twitter 
  
•  Social Networking

Articles in Subject Centre magazines about the Humbox Project:

• LLAS: Liaison Magazine
• English: WordPlay magazine
• History Subject Centre newsletter
• Subject Centre for PRS journal

Final reports

Institutional Strand

• BERLIN Project final report, University of Nottingham
• OCEP Project final report, University of Coventry
• Open Exeter Project final report, University of Exeter
• Open Spires Project final report, University of Oxford
• OPENSTAFFS Project final report , Staffordshire University
• OTTER Project  final report, University of Leicester
• Unicycle Project Final Report, Leeds Metropolitan University

Individual Academics Strand

Project final reports will be made available on the HE Academy Project pages

• openSpace Project final report,  University College Falmouth
• Open Source Electronics Learning Tools, University of York
• www.multimediatrainingvideos.com project University of Westminster
• NumBat (Numeracy Bank) Anglia Ruskin University
• Open Learning Environment Early Modern Low Countries History University College London
• EVOLUTION: Educational and Vocational Objects for Learning Using Technology In Open Networks University of Central Lancashire
• Chemistry.FM University of Lincoln
• Open Educational Resources Project(OERP) Bradford University

Subject Consortia Strand

Project final reports will be made available on the HE Academy Project pages

• The HumBox Project
• Collaboratove Open Resources Environment for Materials Project final report, CORE Materials Project
• Open Educational Repository in Support of Computer Science
• Open Educational Resources Pilot
• TRUE: Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics
• Skills for Scientists
• C-change in GEES: Open licensing of climate change and sustainability resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Open Educational Resources in Art, Design and Media
• FETLAR (Finding electronic teaching learning and assessment resources)
• An Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences
• Simulation Learning Resources
• Public Health Open Resources in the University Sector (PHORUS)
• Evaluating the practice of collective endeavour in opening up key
• resources for learning and teaching in the social sciences
• Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER)

OERs released by the Pilot Programme Teams 

All UKOER projects' learning and teaching resources are also to be released via JorumOpen, using the #ukoer tag.

Institutional Strand

• BERLIN Project OERs, University of Nottingham
• OCEP Project OERs, University of Coventry
• Open Exeter OERs, University of Exeter
• Open Spires OERs, University of Oxford
• OPENSTAFFS OERs, Staffordshore University
• OTTER Project OERs, University of Leicester
• Unicycle Project OERs, Leeds Metropolitan University

Individual Academics Strand

• brOME OERP Project OERs, Bradford University
• openSpace OERs,  University College Falmouth
• Open Source Electronics Learning Tools OERs, University of York
• MMTV OERs, University of Westminster
• NumBat OERs(Numeracy Bank) Anglia Ruskin University
• Open Learning Environment Early Modern Low Countries History OERs, University College London
• EVOLUTION OERs, University of Central Lancashire
• Chemistry.FM OERs, University of Lincoln

Subject Consortia Strand 

• Skills for Scientist OERs
• Open Education Resources Pilot (Engineering) OERs
• CORE Materials OERs
• C-Change in GEES Project
• TRUE: Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Economics OERs
• Bioscience OERs
• PHORUS OERs
• C-SAP OERs
• OOER OERs
• The HumBox Project OERs
• Open Educational Repository in Support of Computer Science
• Open Educational Resources in Art, Design and Media
• FETLAR (Finding electronic teaching learning and assessment resources) OERs
• Simulation Learning Resources OERs

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