Open educational resources: The challenges of ‘usability’ and copyright clearance
| Published | 2012 |
| Journal | Planet Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 51-54 |
ABSTRACT
AbstractThis article reflects on the experiences of Keele University's participation in repurposing teaching materials for open access as part of the GEES consortium within the Higher Education Academy/ JISC Open Educational Resources (OER) pilot project. The team at Keele contributed over 100 separate OER, principally PowerPoint slide sets, reading lists and activity sheets across a number of climate change and sustainability-related themes. This paper explores some of the challenges that arose in the ‘repurposing’ of existing teaching materials for open access, including the issues of end-user usability and obtaining copyright clearance for image intensive resources. The paper concludes with advice for those interested in making existing or new resources suitable for open access.| Keywords | copyright challenges · developing OER · OER repositories · peer-review process · re-purposing challenges |
| Other number | 1 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited |
| DOI | 10.11120/plan.2012.00250051 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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