OER Technical Interest Group

The aim of the OER Technical Interest Group to provide a focus for the wide range of technical activities that the UK F/HE community is engaging with in the general space of “open educational resources”. This informal group will provides a forum to explore a wide range of technical issues relating to the creation, description, dissemination, aggregation, discovery, use and tracking of open educational resources. In addition, the group hopes to surface and identify current and best practice in these areas.

Who is the OER Technical Interest Group for?
Anyone with an interest in technical issues relating to open educational resources and the wider areas of open education and educational resource management in general. Participation is not restricted to JISC HEA OER Programme projects, CETIS welcome and encourage participation from outwith the UK and from across the educational sector including schools, colleges, work based learning, life long learning, etc.

Participating in the OER Technical Interest Group
To join the group just sign up for oer-discuss@jiscmail.com and look out for blog posts and tweets tagged #oertig

What does the OER Technical Interest Group do?
The group has helped to coordinate a number of events including the CETIS UKOLN DevCSI OER Hack Days and the Advances in Open Systems for Learning Resources workshop at Repository Fringe 2011.

OER TIG provides a forum for the JISC CETIS UKOER mini projects and facilitates discussion of projects proposals, deliverables and outputs through oer-discuss JISCmail list.

The group engages with and disseminates initiatives and activities outwith the UK F/HE sector including Creative Commons, OCWC and the Learning Registry.

OER TIG also explores a wide range of technical issues including but not restricted to:


 * Feed deposit
 * Web search log analysis
 * RSS end point registries
 * Use of open source repositories for managing educational resources.
 * Tracking open educational resources.
 * License encoding.
 * Self description and embedded metadata.