GoOpen

What is GoOpen?
This is a new project aiming to share OER training resources and approaches with anyone wishing ot participate in open education. We started this site in August 2015 so more content will be added very shortly. The project will be discussed at the UK Association of Learning Technology conference in September 2015.

What we do

 * We are a new group established to discuss and share current wisdom on the embedding of OER in educational practice.
 * Education settings include school, colleges, university and adult education.
 * Our target contributor, reader, collaborator would be those new to education, those discovering open education for the first time, or those wishing to update their practice.

Members

 * Viv Rolfe
 * Catherine Cronin

Key OER documents
There are a host of good quality open education reports and evaluations of projects on the web, but here are some of the best that emerged at the time of the HEFCE-funded UK Open Educational Resource Programme, #UKOER.

State-of-the-art review by CETIS describing current thinking on open education and massive online open courses (MOOCs). A good read for those wishing to implement change at institutional level and discussing open education may play a role in meeting the demands of changing student demographics, globalisation and other economic and technological factors.

Evaluation of the 2011 Jisc Digitisation for Open Educational Resources programme by Lou McGill that explores institutional means of digitising assets and/or collections of materials, and preparing them for open release. A must-read for anyone producing and releasing OER onto the internet in digital form, and many examples of how teaching practice and the student experienced benefitted from such activity.

The final synthesis and evaluation of the HEFCE-funded UK Open Educational Resource Programme. Packed with so much relevant information, it is difficult to summarise here. Insight into OER production and release, working collaboratively, institutional impact, legal and technical implications. A good starting point for those wishing to engage in open education or those wishing to influence their groups and organisations.