Category Archives: oer

Returning to Libraries and OER

“The responsibility of acquiring books was the libraries and you might therefore think of extending the libraries role to…educational resources in general” (Nikoi, 2010). An introduction to our visiting scholar Gema Bueno de la Fuente and a survey about academic libraries role in OER initiatives.

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UKOER 2: without the collections strand

An intial look at UKOER without the collections strand (C). This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
In my earlier post in this series on the collections strand (C), I presented a graph of the technical choices made just by that part of [...]

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Post UKOER? the Saylor open textbook challenge

Are you wondering what to do with your OER next? Are you wondering how to keep the ball rolling in your institution and share some more educational resources openly? Are you looking for a tangible way to get your open content used? or perhaps looking for a way to turn your OER into something a little more [...]

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UKOER 2: Analytics and tools to manipulate OER

How are projects tracking the use of their OER? What tools are projects using to work with their OER collections? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Analytics
As part of their thinking around sustainability, it was suggested to projects that they consider how [...]

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UKOER 2: OER creation tools used

When projects in UKOER 2 created or edited content what tools did they use? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Tools to make OER

Notes

Ms Office and Adobe Acrobat are not represented in these graphs or in PROD - their use [...]

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UKOER 2: Technical synthesis introduction

Introduction
The is the first post in a short series offering a technical summary of the 23 projects in the  UKOER 2 programme. It is based on interviews with the projects, the data and information summarised here is all available in PROD.
The JISC site describes the programme as follows:
“Phase 2 of the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) programme is [...]

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An OER manifesto in twenty minutes

A brief rapid response to @Tore ’s request for a ten point manifesto on OER (& ok it was 25 minutes)
Andy Powell makes the key point: “@tore open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open, open - no need to mention ‘e’ or ‘r’ #nordlet” RE http://bit.ly/nwgIYE
But if I was writing a manifesto on [...]

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