UKOER phase 2 sources

This page lists the sources of materials offered by those projects funded by the second phase of the Academy/JISC OER programme that were releasing content. See also the page for phase 1 and the  summary page.

The main aim is to provide information on the end points for interoperability services such as the location of syndication feeds (RSS and ATOM), OAI-PMH base URLs, SRU targets, and other APIs that may be available (a more human-oriented list of outputs is available from the OER Synthesis and Evaluation team for the release strand and the cascade strand). In all cases the intention here is to create links to materials that have been created by the project. Therefore the websites listed are the websites where the content is hosted, and not the project websites; the RSS feeds are feeds containing a list of resources created by the project, not news about the project's progress, and so on. See the JISC website for more information about phase 2 of the Academy/JISC OER programme and the projects it comprised.

It might be argued that in some cases it is unreasonable to expect to find the output of some of these projects available as discrete coherent collections, after all the projects are merely funding devices and real end users of OERs are not particularly interested in obtaining only those resources that were funded through some specific programme. However being able to obtain resources from a specific funding stream is useful in accounting for and showcasing how that funding was used, and in justifying the way that it was spent and making the case for further funding--so I would think that the interest in doing this is pretty obvious.

It was a condition of funding that resources be represented in Jorum. I haven't recorded whether or how one can get an individual project's output out of Jorum every project but I have done so for those projects which clearly said that this was their only dissemination channel.

There will be errors and omissions. My main excuse for these is that I spent more time looking for how to get hold of these resources than most people would. If I still couldn't find a project's resources, then it wasn't for want of looking.

Contents
 * 1)  Release projects: release of OERs from an institution or subject community.
 * 2)  Open Materials for Accredited Courses: releasing materials linked to the national professional standards for staff who teach in higher education.
 * 3)  Cascade projects: existing teams who are already releasing OERs supporting to embed this practice in their own environment.

Release projects
These projects, formally comprising Strand Ai of the programme, were a new set of projects releasing OERs from an institution or subject community.

University of Plymouth: Learning from WOeRK: OERs for CPD in the workplace
Website: http://cpdoer.net/collections/ Also uplace repository http://uplace.org.uk:8080/dspace/handle/10293/966 and JORUM http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/browse?value=LFWOER&type=subject

Platform: DSpace (uplace repository with Wordpress page as interface) and Jorum

RSS: rss 1.0 and rss 2.0 feeds of "most recent" items (approx 100 items).

OAI-PMH: Mentioned in uplace metadata policy but I could find no other documentation for it.

Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP) Subject Centre: SWAPBox
Website: http://www.swapbox.ac.uk/ Also Jorum.

Platform: Learning Box (ePrints 3 / EdShare)

RSS: RSS 2.0 feed of latest 10 resource. Similar feeds available for result of any search.

OAI-PMH: Could not find documentation, but found OAI service at normal ePrints base URL http://www.swapbox.ac.uk/cgi/oai2.

University of Northampton: Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources (TIGER)
Website: http://tiger.library.dmu.ac.uk/ (listing by title) Tiger repository at De Montfort University

Platform: dspace

RSS: Feeds available for most recent 10 items for whole site, RSS1 RSS2 ATOM, or for each of the four collections, e.g. RSS 2.0, collection 2--follow links at bottom of page.

OAI-PMH: No

University College London: OER Digital Humanities (DHOER)
Website: ? (project website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dhoer/, couldn't find any resources)

Platform: ?

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: ?

De Montfort University: Sickle Cell Open: Online Topics and Educational Resources (SCOOTER)
Website: http://www.sicklecellanaemia.org/OER/index.html (scroll down for OERs). Also some in Jorum.

Platform: static website (note: there are also moodle courses, for which registration is required)

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: ?

Nottingham Trent University: Depository of Resources for Statistics in Social Sciences (De-STRESS)
Website: http://destress.pbworks.com/w/page/42308116/Welcome

Platform: Front end is pbworks wiki; aim is to have OERs catalogued in Jorum tagged as 'destressproject'

RSS: will be via Jorum

OAI-PMH: will be via Jorum

Doncaster College: Simulated Performing Arts Creative Environment (SPACE)
Website: http://www.space.fusedworks.com/?page_id=203

Platform: n/a (the resource is a 3d application allowing you to create your own virtual environment and is available for both mac and pc)

RSS: n/a

OAI-PMH: n/a

HLST & BMAF Subject Centres, 2012: Learning Legacies
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism (HLST) Subject Centre and the Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance (BMAF) Subject Centre

Website: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/learninglegacies/resources Also some resources in Oxford Brookes RADAR Repository

Platform: website (unknown CMS) Equella (RADAR Repository)

RSS:

OAI-PMH: RADAR base URL http://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/oai There is a 2012 - Legacies for learning set.

University of the Arts London: Arts Learning and Teaching Online (ALTO)
Website: http://process.arts.ac.uk/ (mostly links to OERs developed elsewhere.)

Platform: Drupal

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: ?

ESCalate Subject Centre: Open Sustainability in Education Resource (OSIER)
Website: http://osier.ac.uk/

Platform: Eprints 3 / Edshare.

RSS: RSS 2.0 feed of latest 10 resource. Similar feeds available for result of any search.

OAI-PMH: Could not find documentation, but found OAI service at normal ePrints base URL http://osier.ac.uk/cgi/oai2.

CEBE Subject Centre: Open Resources for Built Environment Education(ORBEE)
Website: http://www.orbee.org/categories.html

Platform: Website (unknown CMS), Some videos on YouTube

RSS: no

OAI-PMH: no

MEDEV Subject Centre: Pathways for Open Resource Sharing through Convergence in Healthcare Education (PORSCHE)
Website: Used Jorum, doesn't seem to be possible to identify which resources came from this project.

Platform:

RSS:

OAI-PMH:

Open Materials for Accredited Courses
These projects, being Strand Aii (OMAC) of the programme, were releasing materials linked to the national professional standards for staff who teach in higher education.

BMAF Subject Centre: Open for business
Website: Resources in Jorum. Not clear if they can be obtained as a separate collection.

Platform: Jorum (DSpace)

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: ?

English Subject Centre: Adding Subject Specificity to Accredited Programmes (ASSAP)
Website: Resources in HumBox and Jorum. Links available from SC website. Search Humbox for project tag oereng

Platform: Jorum (DSpace), HumBox (ePrints) and Moodle

RSS: Humbox project tag search results: RSS1 ATOM RSS2

OAI-PMH: ?

GEES Subject Centre: Educational Development Open Resources (EDOR)
Website: http://uplace.org.uk:8080/dspace/handle/10293/1197 Also in Jorum

Platform: Dspace

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: ?

London School of Economics and Political Science, Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation (DELILA)
Website: http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/DELILA/ (collection in institutional repository) and http://learningresources.lse.ac.uk/ (institutional learning repository)

Platform: ePrints

RSS: couldn't find feed for this collection

OAI-PMH:  couldn't find set for this collection.

MEDEV Subject Centre, Accredited Clinical Teachers Open Resources (ACTOR)
Website: Resources in Jorum. Not clear if they can be obtained as a separate collection.

Platform:

RSS:

OAI-PMH:

Rose Bruford College, Reflecting on Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts
Website: http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6691 Also in Jorum

Platform: OpenLearn LabSpace

RSS: (OpenLearn provides various RSS feeds, but cannot find one for this project alone)

OAI-PMH: (OpenLearn has an OAI-PMH feed but not clear that LabSpace is included)

University College Falmouth, IPR for Educational Environments (IPR4EE)
Website: http://openspace.falmouth.ac.uk/courses/ipr-educational-environments-ipr-education (front end to repository http://openspace.falmouth.ac.uk/search/node/ipr4ee ) Also in Jorum

Platform: ?

RSS: rss2.0 (but not clear what is in it)

OAI-PMH: ?

University College London: Open Resources on HE Teaching and Learning (CPD4HE)
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/cpd4he/resources

Platform: website (unknown CMS)

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: no

University of Bradford, Open educational resources for the inclusive curriculum (ORIC)
Website: http://www.oric.brad.ac.uk/overview/ Also in Jorum

Platform: website (unknown CMS)

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: no

University of Exeter, Open STEM: Transforming Teaching in Mathematics and Biosciences
Website: http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6597 Also in Jorum

Platform: OpenLearn LabSpace

RSS: (OpenLearn provides various RSS feeds, but cannot find one for this project alone)

OAI-PMH: (OpenLearn has an OAI-PMh feed but not clear that LabSpace is included)

University of Wolverhampton, Learning to Teach Inclusively – a multi media open access module for HE staff
Website: http://wlv.ac.uk/LTImodule
 * http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?name=InclusiveLearning Also in Jorum

Platform: Website, (unknown CMS) & OpenLearn LabSpace

RSS: (OpenLearn provides various RSS feeds, but cannot find one for this project alone)

OAI-PMH: (OpenLearn has an OAI-PMh feed but not clear that LabSpace is included)

Cascade projects
These projects, formally comprising Strand Aiii of the programme, were existing teams who are already releasing OER who provided support in embedding their practice in other environments.

NB: this strand was about passing on experience about OER release not about releasing resources per se: OER release might be a consequence of these projects but were not a required deliverable. Only student-facing OERs are listed here, not any of the support material or documentation of practice that may have been the primary output of the projects.

Coventry University -- OERCaFE: OER Cascade to FE
Website: (project website at http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/oercafe/ but I couldn't find any OERs)

Platform:

RSS:

OAI-PMH:

C-SAP Subject Centre -- Open Cascade project
Website: (project website at http://csapopencascade.wordpress.com/ but I couldn't find any OERs)

Platform:

RSS:

OAI-PMH:

Art design and media, Practising open education
Website: (project website at http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/sector-projects/practicing-open-education-2013-developing-the-potential-of-open-educational-resources-in-art-design-and-media ) OERs in Jorum, but not clear if they can be obtained as a separate collection.

Platform: Jorum

RSS:

OAI-PMH:

OSTRICH: OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs
Website: http://ostrich.bath.ac.uk Also some in Jorum

Platform: Drupal

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: ?

University of Oxford -- Ripple: OER Cascade
Website: (project website http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ripple/ ) Some in http://www.openfields.org.uk/ and Jorum but not clear whether it's possible to identify outputs from just this project.

Platform: ?

RSS: ?

OAI-PMH: ?