OER Pilot Programme Support

The OER Pilot programme was the first of a series of one year long Open Educational Resources programmes funded through JISC and the Higher Education Academy. The aim of the programmes is to enable higher education institutions, consortia and individuals to share learning materials freely online. The programmes support universities and colleges in exploring processes and policies, intellectual property rights, cultural issues, technical requirements and data management issues.

The pilot programme ran from April 2009 to April 2010. CETIS support was based on the principle of working from particular technical issues raised by projects or emerging from the wider community and to produce more general technical guidance and reflections. This approach seeks to not only inform and support projects but also build a coherent technical overview of the OER programmes, identify lessons learned and emerging trends, and engage with and participate in the wider international OER communities.

Outputs of the technical support project include:

Technical outputs

 * Programme technical requirements
 * Programme metadata requirements
 * Programme myths
 * Programme briefing day
 * Slides from 2nd Tuesday session on metadata
 * OER Technical Challenges session at the CETIS 2009 Conference
 * Technical Challenges for Managing Open Educational Resources
 * Orders from the Roundtable

Reporting

 * The final report of the project will be available
 * Prod technical reviews of the projects are available
 * The technical synthesis is available

Papers and Presentations

 * Barker, P., R.J. Robertson, and L. Campbell (2010) "An Open and Closed Case for Educational Resources" Repository Fringe 2010, Edinburgh (slides), (blog post)
 * Robertson, R. J., L. Campbell, P. Barker, L. Yuan and S. MacNeill (2010) “One Standard to Rule Them All?: Descriptive Choices for Open Education” OCWC Global 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam, 5-7 May 2010.
 * Robertson, R. J., S. MacNeill, P. Barker, L. Campbell, and L. Yuan (2010) “Approaches to supporting Open Educational Resource projects” OCWC Global 2010, Hanoi, Vietnam, 5-7 May 2010.
 * Robertson, R. J., Barker, P. and Campbell, L. M., (2010), “Technology and Descriptive Choices in the JISC HEA Open Educational Resources programme”, position paper for ADL Learning Content *Repositories and Registries Summit, Washington,DC
 * Robertson, R. J., Barker, P. and Campbell, L. M. "Resource Description, Discovery, and Metadata for Open Educational Resources" OER 10 Cambridge 22nd -24th March 2010
 * Campbell, L. and R.J. Robertson "Discovering OER: What are we looking for?" UKOER 10 London, July 23rd 2010