Open Educational Resources

An introduction to Open Educational Resources
CETIS are engaged in a wide range of open educational resource initiatives both nationally and internationally in support of JISC's work in this domain. A major part of our work in this area is to provide technical guidance and support to the UK Open Educational Resource (UKOER) Programmes run jointly by JISC and The Higher Education Academy. CETIS also provides strategic technical input and synthesises and disseminates the technical outputs of these programmes.

This page and subsections provide an overview of CETIS's work with Open Educational Resources (OER), including our support for the UKOER programmes, and list some key resources.

Contents
This page and subsections provide an overview of CETIS's work with Open Educational Resources (OER), including our support for the Open Education Resources programme, and list some key resources.

Key sections include:
 * CETIS support for the UKOER Programmes
 * An overview of our activities in support of the HE Academy/JISC UKOER programmes.


 * UKOER sources
 * A list of where you can find the materials provided by projects funded by the UKOER programmes, with an emphasis on endpoint for interoperability services.


 * CETIS UKOER mini projects
 * Information about technical mini projects funded through CETIS to explore specific technical issues that had been identified by the community, including the tendering and open bidding process and progress of the projects.


 * Describing OERs
 * Aspects of resource description for Open Educational Resources (OERs), including advice about metadata, OER self-description, providing licence information, and the requirements for the UKOER programme.


 * Tracking OERs
 * A set of pages about technical approaches to monitoring the release of OERs by a project or programme, the use and re-use of these resources, and comments and ratings relating to these resources.


 * CETIS/UKOLN OER Hack Days
 * Pages describing ideas and work from a two day event which brought together software developers, learning technologists, users and other stakeholders interested in hacking OER content, systems and services.


 * OER Technical Interest Group
 * The OER Technical Interest Group aims 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”.


 * UKOER projects in PROD
 * PROD is CETIS's directory and monitoring tool for JISC funded projects. It lets you search for and quickly gather information about any of the projects in the system. This slice of PROD shows the UKOER projects.


 * UKOER synthesis & summary
 * Part of CETIS's support for the UKOER programmes is to provide end-of-programme syntheses and summaries of technical issues.


 * CETIS Papers on Open Educational Resources
 * A list of journal publications from members of CETIS on OER.


 * CETIS OER events
 * A list of the workshops, conference sessions and other events run by CETIS that are of direct or indirect relevance to Open Educational Resources.