Open Learning Network

OER10 Conference, Cambridge, UK   -    Opening Talk by Dr Malcom Read, JISC Executive Secretary

Dr Read starts by discussing the various contexts in which 'openness' is used:

• Open source: software
• Open standards: interoperability
• Open Access: research  outputs, research data
• Open Educational Resources: course material
• Open Science: open innovation (the research process becoming more open via web 2.0)

OER New Challenges:  need to focus on the discovery and use of OER and also on learning form current experiences (reuse).

HEFCE funding for next year (2011) is  £4million and will incorporate the release of projects in identified priority areas only. Another goal is to improve the find-ability of OER resources.