Organising Open Educational Resources

OOER phase 1 outcomes

We have made the following high level recommendations:

•  That authors should ‘hallmark’ all their content (whether to be made open or not) with CC licences;

•  Consent everything-even where ownership and patient/non-patient rights appear clear, and store copies of the consent with resource;

•  Review institutional policies against good practice risk-assessment tools;

•  Aim to release a fraction of a programme rather than 100% (avoids some of the ‘cons’ of ‘going OER’);

•  UK HE enters a dialogue with publishers to increase the potential for re-using third party upstream rights (especially images, music and video);

•  Develop and follow sophisticated ‘take-down’ policies;

•  Develop a tool to track resources and for them to ‘phone home’ (like software updaters) to check their currency/status;

•  Establish a staff reward system (formal recognition of using and reusing others’ resources, PDRs, promotion criteria, etc.);

•  Several JorumOpen-specific recommendations such as bulk upload.

Outcome highlights

Several of our outcomes from the project and the final report are available to view here:

• ‘Traffic light’ process diagram representing stages of potential ER ‘openness’.
• Good practice risk management compliance table.
• Comparison of different ER-sharing models with OER.
• Future scenarios for OER use.
• Tensions in making resources open.
• Analysis of the resource discovery/re-use survey.
• 'Put in Many Places and Syndicate' (PIMPs) interface and the API toolkit.
• Web-based permission sign-off form and licensing system.