Open Learning Network

The JISC Open Educational Resources Programme OER impact study is now available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer2/oerimpact.aspx.  The report investigates the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) use on teaching and learning and draws on literature surveys, interviews, focus groups and workshop data to identify the pedagogic, attitudinal, logistical and strategic factors conducive to uptake and sustained use of OER.

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:

CREW (Collaborative Research Events on the Web) aims to improve access to research event content by capturing and publishing the scholarly communication that occurs at events like conferences and workshops. The project is developing tools to enable presentations and similar sessions to be recorded and annotated and enable powerful searches across distributed conference and related research data.