SIG Open Educational Resources

This SIG on Open Educational Ressources (OER) is intended for persons who deal with the conceptional and practical aspects of creating, sharing and re-using OER.

On the eduhub days in Baden on February 2, an interactive discussion session took place in order to bring together different views on OER. The resulting list of topics/expectations which evolved from this discussion are shown in the corresponding sections below.

• 23 March 2011: “International Perspectives and Initiatives - OER at Universities” eduhub days 2011 - Speaker: Abel Caine from UNESCO / Moderation: Ricarda T.D. Reimer (SIG OER)
• 21 April 2010: meeting to discuss next steps.
  1. Contact potential supporters for the white paper. Submit white paper to CRUS
  2. Quick survey about OER strategies and activities at swiss HE institutions
• 28 January 2010: presentation of the the white paper at the eduhub days and at the ETWG meeting (ETWG meeting minutes)
• 25 January 2010: Version 1 of SIG OER White Paper ready
• 15 January 2010: meeting
• 14 October 2009: meeting
• the first SIG meeting took place in Zurich on 29 May 2009. The minutes can be found here.

• Develop a strategy
  • Explain why OER are important for higher education members and institutions/What are their benefits?
  • What is needed to establish/promote an OER culture in higher education?
• Quality of OER
  • Is quality assurance system necessary or what kind of quality assurance process is necessary?
  • What strategies / mechanisms for quality assurance are feasible?
• Improvements for the repository SWITCHcollection
  • how can institutions get involved?
  • implementation of specific institutional quality assurance mechanisms
  • commentary and keywords for optimizing searches (metadata: optimizing and finding)
• Legal aspects
  • Copyright and usage rights: How to enable authors and lower barriers

• The SIG should be a platform for exchange of ideas and information
• The SIG should aim for concrete and usable results e.g.
  • collection of arguments
  • suggestions for improvements of SWITCHcollection
  • guidance for institutions; ‘How to introduce OER’, ‘How to manage the quality of OER’, …

Ricarda T. D. Reimer, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Head of E-Learning Consulting and Support Services, PH FHNW
ricarda.reimer@fhnw.ch
https://differenz2tellerrand.wordpress.com/vita/
+41 32 628 66 97

• UNESCO OER page
• UNESCO OER Community
• OPAL - The Open Educational Quality Initiative
• OLCOS, Open eLearning Content Observatory Services project
• OER HE european project to foster and support OER at higher education institutions