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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Lis ParcellJisc RSC Wales

Glyndwr University 6 March 2013

@lisparcell@rscwales

http://www.slideshare.net/lisparcell/

OERs: opening up the boxhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkieblues/5135241394/

Open Educational Resources - OER

• What are they?• What are they for?• What benefit can I

and my community get from them?

• How can I find out more?

• “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.”

• “Resources that are specifically licenced to be used and re-used in an educational context”

http://www.oercommons.org/

Open Educational Resources infoKithttps://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com

Licensed to sharehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkieblues/5135241394/

https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com

Opening up education

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5188228186

Finding examples of OERs

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/plagiarism/jorum_tutorial/index.html

Avoiding Plagiarism tutorial - Cardiff University Information Services

Found by searching on www.jorum.ac.uk for ‘Plagiarism’

Numeracy Online - King’s College Virtual Campus

http://virtualcampus.kcl.ac.uk/nonvcprojects/jorum/numeracy/

Found by searching on www.jorum.ac.uk for “Numeracy”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/funch/3264112407/

The open educational landscape

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gayle_n/459995677/

Students and learning resources

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benedictineuniversity/6902555912/

How to find out more

• Your own colleagues• www.openeducationweek.org/ • Jisc information and services• Jisc RSC Wales webinars • http://bit.ly/RSCWalesevents • Contact us for further support

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6555466069/

Stay in touch

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Contact details

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01792 513261 (Lis Parcell)01792 295959 (Helpdesk)

@rscwales @lisparcell

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