Opening up resources for learning
Open Educational Resources (OER) are defined as 'teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge'.
Please note: only institutions directly funded by HEFCE (including all Academy Subject Centres for the subject strand) can lead bids. Other institutions and organisations may be partners in bids.
There are three separate project strands to the pilot programme institutional subject area
- Institutional
- Subject Area
- Individual
Projects will run for 12 months and will formally begin in April 2009.
For full details of the OER programme and the bidding process, please download the Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme: Call for Projects
If you have specific queries in relation to the three strands please email: oer@heacademy.ac.uk.
oer-individual@heacademy.ac.uk Individual Strand
oer-subject@heacademy.ac.uk Subject Strand
oer-institutional@jisc.ac.uk Institutional Strand
More details can be found on the OER page on the HEAcademy site.
