Open Educational Resources NEW OER Project Sustainable Texts and
Disciplinary Conversations, funded by the HEA/JISC UKOER
programme, will produce an ebook and encourage discussion about
Open Education at UCL. Open Educational Resources (OER) are for
teachers, students and researchers. The OER movement aims to
make high quality educational resources freely available, easily
discovered online and routinely re-used and re-purposed by
learners and educators worldwide. Open Educational Resources may
be: - Complete courses - Recorded lectures or seminars -
Individual learning activities - Reading lists - Assessment
tasks and materials - and also study tools or information about
good practice. They are either in the public domain or released
under licences – for example, Creative Commons - that allow them
to be re-used and modified without charge, for educational
purposes. They can be found in public repositories, such as
Jorum, in file-sharing sites such as YouTube, iTunesU or Flickr
or in institutional repositorie