‘Opportunities, Challenges & Barriers to Open Education Resources
Aims: To consult and share experiences working within OER content and tools.

Programme of the Day
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome, coffee & refreshments, registration
10:30 – 12:30 

• Introduction: The Open University’s experience of producing Open Content across a variety of projects, including OpenLearn. 
• Overview of the support services SCORE can offer the HEI sector.
• Showcase 1: Evaluating the practice of opening up resources for learning and teaching in social science.  C-SAP, Higher Education Academy Centre, University of Birmingham. Speaker: Darren Marsh
• Showcase 2:  Enhancing and expanding Nottingham’s existing Open Educational Repository to progress the vision of sustainable OERs. BERLiN, Building exchanges for research and learning in Nottingham.  University of Nottingham.  Speaker:  Andy Beggan
• Showcase 3: NumBat (Numeracy Bank): This project is building on previous work to provide online learning materials to support numeracy across a wide range of subject areas in FE and HE. - Anglia Ruskin University. Speaker: Toby Carter

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Open Discussions: Opportunities, Challenges & Barriers to Open Content in Higher Education
14:30 – 15:00 Question time: Bring along a question to ask the OER community; technical, rights, production, examples of use, sustainability, publishing.
15:00 – 15:30 Tea and coffee

Venue:  The Open University in the West Midlands
66 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9NB
Telephone: 0121 426 1661
Map: http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps.aspx?contactid=4

For more details contact score@open.ac.uk  Support Centre for Open Resources in Education, based at the Open University. Tel: 01908 332233
 

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