"OER helps to promote quality teaching and encourages innovation. The more materials are shared, the more good ideas will spread."
Jane Hughes, CALT
QUICK LINKS
- OER@UCL: UCL projects to develop OER
- Creative Commons: Copyright licenses that enable resource-sharing
- OER InfoKit: Practical help from JISC
- OER starter pack: Beginner's guide
- JISC/HEA OER programme: Government-funded OER research
- JISC Techdis: UK advisory service on using technology in education
- Jorum: OER repository for UK further and higher education
- OpenLearn: Learning materials from Open University courses
Where to find OER
OER can be found on websites or specialist repositories for research,
learning and teaching resources. UCL's OER projects will be published
on at least two repositories, and the university's research is being
published on UCL Discovery as an integral part of its Open Access policy.
UCL repositories
UCL on iTunes U
Download and watch over 164 interviews, lectures and other UCL
content via ipods or computers. Topics range from business to science, with the free lunch hour lectures proving most popular.
UCLTV on YouTubeEdu
UCLTV
is UCL's official channel on
YouTube EDU, showcasing mini-lectures and student-focused features. The
channel contains around 150 videos, which have been viewed over half a million times.
OER@UCL
News
and information on UCL's input into OER and its externally-funded
projects to develop and release open educational resources.
UCL Discovery
Showcase for UCL's research publications, giving access to
journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and digital web
resources.
UK repositories
OpenLearn
OpenLearn
provides free access to over 8,000 study hours of learning materials
from Open University courses, with links to its BBC broadcasts and
interactive content such as expert blogs, videos and games.
Jorum
This
free online repository service constitutes a key part of the JISC programme to
collect and share learning and teaching materials for the UK further and
higher education community across all subject disciplines.
HumBox
HumBox is a bank of online humanities resources run by the University of Southampton. It was initially developed by the HumBox project in a collaboration
between 12 institutions and four humanities subject centres - LLAS, English, History and
Philosophical and Religious Studies.
Language Box
This is a virtual storage space for modern languages learning materials.
Originally funded by JISC and created by the Faroes project team at the
Universities of Southampton and Portsmouth, it stores resources in 26
languages, from Arabic to Welsh.
Xpert
The
University of Nottingham's Xpert repository contains metadata and
resources for almost 120,000 learning objects from over 8,000 providers,
published using the open-source e-learning development tool Xerte
Online Toolkits.
International repositories
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) open courseware
Launched
in 2001, MIT open courseware is a repository for almost all MIT learning
content, with lecture notes, exams and videos from more than 2,000
courses published online for free use by all.
China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
Materials
from over 750 courses have been made available by 222 universities in
Chinese, with 11 subject areas available in English.
Japan OCW consortium
Over 40 Japanese institutions have provided more than 200 course materials in English, and almost 1,300 course materials in Japanese.
OER projects
OpenCourseWare Consortium
The
OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education
institutions and associated organisations from around the world creating
a bank of open educational content using a shared model.
JISC/HEA Open Educational Resources programme - phase 2
The
Higher Education Academy and JISC ran a second phase of
government-funded OER projects between August 2010 and August 2011, to
provide a wide range of quality higher education resources. UCL took part in this programme.
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