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.
