SIG Open Educational Resources

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

On the eduhub days 2009 in Baden an interactive discussion session took place to bring together different views on OER. The resulting list of topics/expectations which evolved from this discussion are displayed below.

• Summer 2012: online-meeting - discussion about feedback white paper
• 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 at 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