The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Higher Education Academy have officially launched the Open Educational Resources (OER) programme. The initiative, funded by HEFCE and run by the Academy and JISC, aims to make a wide range of learning resources created by academics freely available, easily discovered and routinely re-used by both educators and learners.
OER could include full courses, course materials, complete modules, notes, videos, assessments, tests, simulations, worked examples, software and any other tools or materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. These resources will be released under an intellectual property licence that permits open use and adaptation.
There are three separate strands of projects. The subject area and individual strands of the programme will be overseen by the Academy. JISC is managing the institutional strand, and has overall responsibility for the management of the programme. Projects will be supported by advice and materials from a range of JISC services, including Jorum, JISC Legal, CETIS and InfoNet, and by the Open University Score project. Programme findings will be evaluated and brought together to inform further work.
OER will make the equivalent of 5,000 undergraduate modules of existing learning resources freely available online. Projects will be working towards being able to sustainably release a much larger pool of resources over a longer period.
The funded projects will run for 12 months and end on April 30, 2010.
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