SCORE is a HEFCE-funded project (2009-2012) supporting individuals, projects, institutions and programmes within higher education in England who are engaged in creating, sharing and using open educational resources (OER). As well as publishing its own OER content, SCORE has a fellowship scheme, offers support and advice, mentors UK OER projects, offers events and online community support.

For more information see: http://www8.open.ac.uk/score/

Location

This meeting is for all 3 programme strand projects (Individual, Subject and Institutional) and is run jointly by JISC and the Academy

For further details see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer/meetingapril2010.aspx

 There are a few places still available for the:

Location

Support Centre for Open Resouces in Education (SCORE) South West Regional Consultation Event - Opportunities, challenges and barriers to Open Education Resources

Venue:  The Open University in the South West of England, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol BS1 6ND

Date: Friday 12th March 2010 10.00 – 16:00

Aim: To consult and share experiences working with OER content and tools

For more information see attachments.

Location

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

Location

Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) Open Education Resources Regional Event - Cambridgeshire on 9th February 2010.

The event is part of the consultation process with the HEI sector concerning the use and creation of Open Educational Resources.  We will be giving an overview of the OER work around the Open University, in particular OpenLearn, highlighting the benefits, institutional approach, opportunities and challenges of the last four years.  Promoting the service available to sector under the HEFCE funded Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE).  There will be two guest speakers from the Cambridgeshire region.  Barney Brown from iTunesU, University of Cambridge, and Toby Carter, Anglia Ruskin University, featuring the JISC funded project NumBat (Numeracy Bank).  There will be plenty of opportunity throughout the day to ask questions and get some practical answers from the different projects and institutions.

The Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) is a national centre, based at the OU from 2009-2012 and funded by Hefce in recognition of OU leadership in open educational resources (see OpenLearn and this website for examples of on-going work with OERs).

Part of the Hefce grant will fund development of a community of fellows, working with the OU on developing OER policy and practice across English HEIs. Over three years at least 36 fellows (up to one third of these working at the OU, the rest from other HEIs) will work with the SCORE team. Guidance on the fellowship scheme is attached below.

Location

Unfortunately, due to the ‘heavy snow’ forecast on Wednesday our guest speaker has requested that we postpone this workshop.  We will be looking to re-schedule for the last week in February 2010.

Aims: To explore the challenges OER providers face in disseminating their content in other countries.  Programme and booking form attached.

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