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Open educational resources (OER): the MEDEV OOER project

Open Educational Resource in the disciplines: a joint Academy Subject Strand conference (26th October 2010)

The day will bring together colleagues from throughout the UK to discuss the key challenges facing OER in the discipline context, and its long-term sustainability within the Higher Education (HE sector.  The aim of the conference is to provide feedback and encourage discussion on the lessons and strategies developed for discovering, developing, enhancing and converting educational resources into OER.

For more information and registration

Open Educational Resources Phase 2

  • New project call Open Educational Resources Programme Phase 2 (link to JISC website) has been announced on the JISC website.
  • A MEDEV briefing paper (.doc) for current and prospective partners on the Phase 2 call is available to download.
  • A MEDEV briefing paper (.doc) for current and prospective partners on the Phase 2 Open Educational Resources for Accredited Courses for Teachers in Higher Education: Call for Projects (OMAC) is available to download.

Organising Open Educational Resources

MEDEV OOER (phase 1) project

A proposal to the HEFCE/Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources - call for projects was submitted by MEDEV on behalf of a wide range of partners in the UK.

The project, entitled Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER) was funded under the Subject Strand, which is managed by the Higher Education Academy.

There is already significant activity in the area of sharing resources in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine. This is typically on a sharing amongst limited discipline communities, around a particular area such as assessment and/or on a semi-commercial basis. Examples include: IVIMEDS, IVIDENT, CLIVE, UK Council for Communication Skills Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education, eVIP, mEducator, MedEdPortal, MedEdCentral, UMAP, and DENTED. Uptake is patchy and tied specifically to involvement in one or more projects such as those listed above.

The OOER project proposes to open up the process to a wider constituency and encourage sharing more openly, as well as reveal existing good practice in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine in UK HE.

The results of a mapping and ‘readiness’ categorisation phase, together with the development of simple ‘Toolkits’ (to help HEIs, Subjects and Individuals) will inform the identification of ER to be included, and uploading ER will test and refine Toolkit development.

The project is run by MEDEV on behalf of the partners who steer it through the work of an Executive Group and Work Package Leaders.

Iterative evaluation informs the partners and funders of issues arising within the project and the results will be disseminated via websites and a stakeholder event.

For a full list of funded projects please visit the Higher Education Academy website, or the JISC website.

There is further background information available about the development of the bid.

See the OOER team:

 
MEDEV is part of the of the

The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine School of Medical Sciences Education Development, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, NE2 4HH


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