The OER World Map collects data related to Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Education as described in the Cape Town Declaration and the 2012 OER Paris Declaration. Please add only related data. If not obvious, please outline the reference to OER in the description field.
A group of people sharing collective goals: universities, corporations, associations, and many others.
A permanently available offering that provides functionality and value to its users.
A temporary undertaking intended to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints.
A gathering of people which takes place at a certain location (virtual or physical) at a certain time.
A user's story published on the OER World Map that relates to Open Education and OER.
A tool that can be used to produce and distribute OER or that enables access or contribution to OER in any particular way.
A website, blog post, video, audio format, or any other online publication related to OER.
A formal regulation or strategy regarding the creation and use of OER.
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Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub) is a research team that grew out of the OER Research Hub project. In 2012 the Hewlett Foundation funded the OER Research Hub project. This sought to establish an...
"The EU-funded BizMOOC project tackles the European challenge of enabling businesses, labour force and universities to increase their activities and exploitation (economies of scale) of the MOOC poten...
OER18 turns the focus on one of the often-cited benefits of “open” – the promise of inclusivity. How do the resources, methods and projects that make up open education support making education availab...
OpenCon community calls give a chance for you to learn what's happening in open research and education around the world, share what you're doing and find collaborators and opportunities. Because this ...
Kerr Gardiner is Head of Learning Technology and Media Production at The University of Glasgow, Learning and Teaching Centre. His team focuses on learning and teaching and Kerr is responsible for e-le...
In March 2017 OEPS, Dyslexia UK and Education Scotland launched the first of three open courses Introduction to Dyslexia and Inclusive Practice. The course is badged and uses a reflective log to help...
The Open University has always offered free to use content to the public, as it is part of the OU Royal Charter to use “the advancement and dissemination of learning and knowledge … to promote the gen...
In 2015 Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) was the first Higher Education institution in Scotland (and one of the very few in the UK) to approve an Open Educational Resources Policy. I risk making he...
Peter Evans (@eksploratore) is based at The University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Education, Community and Society in the School of Education. He teaches on the MSc in Digital Education and researc...
Greg Singh is Programme Director of Digital Media at The University of Stirling and a lecturerin media and communication. The Digital Media programme at Stirling is an integrated programme in conjunct...
Stephanie McKendry is the Widening Access Manager at Strathclyde University. In post since early 2014 over the past two years Stephanie and her team have developed a widening access strategy for the U...
This short article explores some of the practicalities and questions we have encountered while working with free and openly licensed content in Schools. It is based on two pilots. The first looks at t...
“I’m interested in how we can do things more in the open just so that they can benefit others” Martin Hawksey is an Innovation, Community and Technology Officer for the Association for Learning Techno...
Keith Smyth (@smythkrs) is Professor of Pedagogy and Head of the Learning and Teaching Academy at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). The Learning and Teaching Academy supports the deve...
Open Research is a badged open course available via Peer 2 Peer University’s (P2PU) School of Open platform. It was written by the OER Research Hub team. This four-week long facilitated course explore...
…I would always suggest a vision should be supported by a policy, and a policy should be supported by a service and a service should be supported by recurrent funding… Melissa Highton is Assistant Pr...
This case study takes the form of a reflective look at two workshops. The first, run by Wendy Burton, Development Officer with Scottish Union Learning (SUL) at the OEPS Advisory Forum in October 2014 ...
Lorna Campbell has been involved in open educational technology since 1997. Initially working on standards for resource description and management Lorna had a “natural progression” into the open educa...
The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow during 2014 provided the catalyst for the Blended Learning Team at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) to develop an open event called ‘GCU Games On’. The event was d...
Bernd Porr (@BerndPorr) is a pioneer in the creation of open access videos and use of the flipped learning approach at the University of Glasgow. A member of the School of Engineering, a long time ope...
Ewan McAndrew works as the Wikimedian in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. Contributing to the University’s aim to enable “open culture” his role aims to be the “first residency catering for t...
edShare@GCU is Glasgow Caledonian University’s (GCU) repository of educational resources. Its origins can be traced back to the Spoken Word Project, which ran from 2003 to 2008, led by GCU in collabor...
“Openness to me is about sharing, reciprocation. I think it’s about accessibility.” Natalie Lafferty is Head of the Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning at the University of Dundee, Scotl...
This case study describes how the OEPS project worked with Parkinson's UK to build an open online course. The Opening Educational Practices in Scotland project, which is led by the Open University in ...
Lesley Bryce was one of the first carers to participate in the Open University’s open course Caring Counts: A self-reflection and planning course for carers which first launched in June 2014. The cou...
Stuart Nicol (@nicolvision) is a Learning Technology team manager at University of Edinburgh. He is part of a section that focuses on “…user facing support for learning services across the univer...
Founded in early 2013 by Glenn Liddall, the Edinburgh based charity People Know How tackles inequality from the standpoint of Social Innovation, working to empower individuals and organizations to unl...
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