OER Phase 2 Programme Support

The OER Phase 2 programme was the second of a series of one-year 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 phase 2 programme ran from September 2010 to August 2011. 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.

For phase 2 the CETIS Team also oversaw the OER mini projects - a small number of technical projects working alongside OER phase 2.

Outputs of the phase 2 technical support project include:

Technical Outputs

 * OER 2 Technical Requirements
 * Resource Description, Discovery, and Metadata for Open Educational Resources
 * OER hackday
 * UKOER Sources blog post wiki page
 * Open Ed 2010 Conference report
 * CETIS workshop "Advances in Open Systems for Learning Resources" at Repository Fringe 2011 August 3rd -5th 2011, Edinburgh

Reporting

 * Prod technical reviews of the projects are available
 * The technical synthesis is available
 * CETIS OER2 Deliverables report is available

Papers and Presentations

 * Barker, P., Robertson, R.J., and Campbell, L., (2011) "How do I aggregate OERs? let me count the ways..." OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference 2011, Cambridge, MA May 4rd-6th 2011
 * Robertson, R.J., Barker, P., Campbell, L., and Yuan, L. (2011) "Is open education between the Cathedral and the Bazaar?: the promise and pitfalls of borrowing models and metaphors for the OER community" OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES 2011, Manchester, Wednesday 11th - Friday 13th May 2011
 * Robertson, R.J., Barker, P., and Campbell, L. (2011) "Developing patterns in technical approaches for Open Educational Resources" OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES 2011, Manchester, 11th - 13th May 2011