The OER Knowledge Cloud: Open Educational Resources Infokit

Open Educational Resources infoKit

Published	2013
Publisher	The Higher Education Academy

ABSTRACT

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are increasingly being made available by Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) institutions. They are resources licensed in a way such that they can be re-used, re-purposed, re-mixed and re-distributed. There are a number of license options for individuals or organisations considering releasing OERs, perhaps the most common being various iterations of the Creative Commons license. This infoKit, as with the whole of the JISC infoNet website, is itself released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

There are a number of considerations to take into account when dealing with OERs. These range from specific technical issues to barriers and enablers to institutional adoption. This infoKit aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning support. It is aimed at senior managers, learning technologists, technical staff and educators with an interest in releasing OERs to the educational community.

This infokit includes information about the three year UK Open Educational Resources Programme (UKOER) (2009 - 2012) and offers links to a wide range of resources which describe the outcomes (lessons learned) and outputs (reports, guidance materials and toolkits) that emerged.

Keywords

OER infokit · OER literature review · OER report · OER resources · toolkit · UKOER · wiki

Rights	by/3.0
URL	http://bit.ly/oerinfokit
Export options	BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar

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