Open Educational Resources (OER) in GEES
Sharing and Reusing Educational Resources in the GEES Disciplines - HE Academy / JISC Open Educational Resources Programme
An OER is an educational resource that permits free use, re-use, and development by others for teaching. OER are released under an open licence e.g. Creative Commons. This allows you to licence your material so that you keep copyright but allow other people to copy and distribute your work on the conditions you specify.
The GEES subject Centre ran three OER projects between 2009 and 2011:
- C-change in GEES: Open Licensing of Climate Change and Sustainability Resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- The Open Fieldwork (OF) Project: bringing together publicly available fieldwork education resources on the web
- Educational Development Open Resources (EDOR): Bringing together a collection of open licensed resources for use by new and experienced academic and support staff (includes generic and GEES specific resources)
C-change in GEES: Open Licensing of Climate Change and Sustainability Resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The C-change in GEES Project was a pilot that explored the open licensing of climate change and sustainability resources in the disciplines of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES). This project was backed by a consortium of 3 professional bodies and 7 partner institutions with the GEES Subject Centre as lead partner. The C-change Project realized genuine benefits to our subjects and other discipline communities through the open licensing of a significant body of resources on climate change and sustainability, and through the seeding of a community of practice (CoP). The outputs are accessible, high quality and should be an inspiration to colleagues considering developing OER.
The resources created can be accessed through JorumOpen and partner institution repositories, as well as web 2.0. In addition to the resources themselves the project has created case studies of practice, example workflows and procedures on the legal and technical aspects of OER published as guidelines for practitioners.
Useful Links:
- C-change Resources listed in Jorum - or search for "GEESOER" in Jorum (Jorum is a free online repository of learning and teaching resources)
- STEM OER Guidance
- C-change in GEES Blogsite
The Open Fieldwork (OF) Project: bringing together publicly available fieldwork education resources on the web
The Open Fieldwork project brought together a collection of publicly available fieldwork education resources that included open educational resources. Such resources might include information on field sites, support and assessment material, BS8848 risk assessment and other good practice for the running of fieldwork. The project
- brought together a collection Fieldwork Education Resources
- developed guidance for describing and depositing open fieldwork education resources
- stimulated community awareness and interest in OER
Useful Links:
- Fieldwork Education Resource Collection (FERC)
- OF Project Blogsite (Including guidance materials)
Educational Development Open Resources (EDOR): Bringing together a collection of open licensed resources for use by new and experienced academic and support staff
The EDOR Project aims to establish a collection of innovative pedagogic open educational resources (OER) for sharing and reuse and also develop a community of practice for those interested in contributing and reusing HE pedagogic resources, including new staff and staff engaged in HE in FE institutions.