Open Learning Network

SCORE have sent out the latest call for their Short Term Fellowship Residential Course, to be held in July 2011.

Short-term Fellowships are designed for those with little or no experience of Open Educational Resources (OER). They provide a practical grounding in OER covering both creation and use.  For this call priority will be given to applications from Arts, Humanities and Language subject areas with a Social Science and Education call following in December 2011.

The seminar was aimed at educators who would like to find out about the fundamental concepts of open educational resources (OER). Speakers who are specialists in their fields brought a wealth of experience to the event.

The presentations were:      

Proposals for teaching fellowships related to Open Educational Resources (OER) in the following themed areas are invited in the current call:

The Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) is inviting applications for Short-Term Fellowships.  These are designed for people with little or no experience of Open Educational Resources (OER) and will provide a thorough grounding in both production and use of OER.  The Fellowship consists of distance learning elements and a one week intensive residential course in Milton Keynes.  Further details and an application form can be found at

SCORE is a HEFCE-funded project (2009-2012) supporting individuals, projects, institutions and programmes within higher education in England who are engaged in creating, sharing and using open educational resources (OER). As well as publishing its own OER content, SCORE has a fellowship scheme, offers support and advice, mentors UK OER projects, offers events and online community support.

For more information see: http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/

 There are a few places still available for the:

The Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) is a national centre, based at the OU from 2009-2012 and funded by Hefce in recognition of OU leadership in open educational resources (see OpenLearn and this website for examples of on-going work with OERs).

Part of the Hefce grant will fund development of a community of fellows, working with the OU on developing OER policy and practice across English HEIs. Over three years at least 36 fellows (up to one third of these working at the OU, the rest from other HEIs) will work with the SCORE team. Guidance on the fellowship scheme is attached below.