Open Educational Resources

The development of educational resources is something that is often born out of the needs of students.  Today, technology now pervades all aspects of our lives.  However, increasingly we are a global community who are sharing data in unprecedented ways. This article aims to provide an introduction to Open Educational Resources, advice on… Continue reading

OpenSpires

This evening I chanced on a twitter post by Javiera Atenas (@jatenas) noting that Oxford University now have over 1,000 podcasts available for use in teaching via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open. I’ve known for some time that Oxford were building up a bank of recordings licensed for individual use, but had missed this… Continue reading

Copyright and teaching online

I’ve just come across the project blog for DELILA (Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation), a project funded by JISC and the HEA. This aims to pool information literacy support materials created at the LSE and University of Birmingham, adapting these to become open educational resources (OER). These… Continue reading