OER and JISC CETIS

Key developments in Open Educational Resources in the UK and the role that JISC CETIS has played.

One of the advantages of having being involved with JISC for a number of years (as a project and a service) is the opportunity to reflect on some activities that we've been involved in for some time. We thought it would be interesting to take the long view of some of our involvement with OER and reflect on what has worked and why, and where we think these activities are going next.

1st Aug 2002 - 1st Sep 2006

JISC Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L)

Focused on the creation of reusable learning resources and tools to facilitate their production and management

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1st September 2002

MIT launches OCW

MIT OpenCourseware is the best-known example of open courseware sharing and is the most copied institutional OER model, providinghe publication on the Web of course materials used in MIT classroom teaching. MIT’s OpenCourseWare is noteworthy in its scale, completeness, quality, and positive influence on others, however, it is basically a of high-quality, pre-credentialed, static material.

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1st September 2002

CETIS scope X4L metadata guidelines

The first full draft of the X4L Application Profile of the UK Common Metadata Framework was completed in early February 2003 and presented to the X4L projects. The application profile includes general guidelines for UK Learning Object Metadata implementers and specific guidelines for the X4L programme. The Framework identifies mandatory and optional elements and provides advice on the use of controlled vocabularies and classification systems.

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1st November 2002

ccLearn launched

the educational division of Creative Commons, was launched in 2007 and was dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning. Expected to further reduce barriers to sharing, remixing and reusing educational resources.

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1st November 2002

JORUM is launched

A national repository to collect and share learning and teaching materials, primarily developed in UK Higher and Further Education, which has since broadened it's scope considerably to include a community bay and OERs

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1st December 2002

Creative Commons licence released

Creative Commons’ first project, in December 2002, was the release of a set of copyright licences for public use. These machine-readable licenses are designed for websites, scholarship, music, film, photography, literature, courseware, etc and they help people make their creative works available to the public, retain their copyright while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions.

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1st Feb 2003 - 31st Jan 2008

JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme

International programme with US partners which aimed to examine how technical developments in digital content could enhance the learning experience of students and provide new models for teaching.

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1st Jan 2005 - 14th Aug 2009

Repositories Research Team

Established by JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme, the Research team was a collaboration between two JISC Innovation Support Centres UKOLN and CETIS

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1st Jan 2005 - 30th Nov 2007

JISC Digital Repositories Programme

Aimed to bring together people and practices from across various domains (research, learning, information services, institutional policy, management and administration, records management, and so on) to ensure the maximum degree of coordination in the development of digital repositories, in terms of their technical and social (including business) aspects.

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25th May 2005

OECD study on OERs

Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources - report published providing a history and considering benefits, sustainability and models

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30th November 2005

Pedagogical Vocabularies Project

JISC Pedagogical Vocabularies Project, managed by CETIS looked at the development and use of vocabularies in UK post-16 education sector.

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1st Jan 2006 - 1st Nov 2007

OLCOS Roadmap

Open Education Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012 (Open eLearning Ciontent Observatory Series) conducted to provide decision makers with an overview of current and likely future developments in OER.

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1st Apr 2006 - 31st Mar 2009

JISC Repositories Preservation Programme

Aimed to establish a network of digital resources and services to significantly improve content use and curation

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7th April 2006

Repositories Roadmap

Presented a vision for 2010 outlining technical, legal, cultural and policy aspects that needed to be addressed to acheivce a vision of open access for newly published scholarly output.

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1st October 2006

Open University UK launches OpenLearn

Aimed to make a selection of their materials available worldwide for free use by anyone and to build communities of learners and educators around the content using a range of tools and strategies. It provides not only a collection of free course material but also a set of tools to help authors publish and support collaborative learning communities.

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7th Jun 2007 - 8th Jun 2007

CETIS codebash 4

4th codebash event which aimed to test the functional interoperability of systems and applications which implement a wide range of content related standards and specifications including: IMS Content Packaging, IMS Common Cartridge, IMS Learning Design, IMS Simple Sequencing, IMS Question and Test Interoperability, IMS Learning Resource Meta-data, IEEE LOM, Dublin Core Metadata, ADL SCORM, METS.

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1st September 2007

u-Now launched by Nottingham University UK

u-Now is an Open Educational Repository which revealed an early adoption of openness for educational resources and early development of workflows and tools to support OER release. University of Nottingham went on to have a funded project BERLiN in the Instituional strand of the UKOER pilot programme

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20th December 2007

Sharing eLearning Content (SELC)report)

Report summarising the findings from a range of JISC projects, with respect to the types of issue that were relevant to the development, use and sharing of e-learning content

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1st Feb 2008 - 31st Mar 2009

JISC RePRODUCE Programme

Aimed to encourage the re-use of high quality externally produced materials and to facilitate the transfer of learning content between institutions

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1st September 2008

First Massive Online Open Course (MOOCS)

Open courses using wikis and blogs began to emerge in the mid 2000s but the term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier

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1st September 2008

JISC CETIS OER briefing paper

OERs: Opportunities and Challenges for HE highlighted the potential of OERs to overcome geographical, economic and demographic boundaries, to provide new opportunities for learning and teaching and to challenge and transform approaches to educational practice.

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25th November 2008

OER Programme Scoping Session at JISC CETIS conference 2008

Session focussing on OER (open educational resources) provided an opportunity for giving input to the He Academy/JISC pilot UKOER programme by sharing information and experience on open content projects and stimulating ongoing discussion and debate on the growing (OER) movement.

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31st December 2008

Good Intentions report

Improving the Evidence Base in Support of Sharing Learning Materials. Focussed on open and community models of sharing

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9th January 2009

An Ecological Approach To Repository And Service Interactions

Report and case studies by members of the Repositories Research Group which investigated models of repository and service interaction and to consider the strengths and limitations of different approaches to articulating or modelling their relationships.

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1st Feb 2009 - 20th Apr 2010

JISC/HE Academy OER Pilot Programme begins

Aimed to make a significant volume of existing teaching and learning resources freely available online and licensed in such a way to enable them to be reused worldwide.

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5th April 2009

Digital Repositories Roadmap review

Review of original Roadmap by Rachel heery

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1st September 2009

University of the People launched

First tuition-free online university dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. Has support of academic leadership from top universities and accepted more than 1300 students from 126 countries by 2012.

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10th November 2009

OER Roundtable session at JISC CETIS conference 2009

Session which discussed technical issues that UKOER projects had anticipated, encountered and possibly even resolved. Members of JISC, CETIS and other community experts will be on hand to offer advice and discuss potential solutions.

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19th January 2010

JorumOpen launches

The national repository develops a parallel open area and is populated by UKOER projects. This is later incorporated into JORUM and loses the 'open' title as the repository moves tow ards general openness.

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19th April 2010

Repositories and the Open Web

A CETISROW event that considered how repositories fit with the web.

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23rd June 2010

OER Infokit launched

An accessible resource which aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning support.

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21st July 2010

Learning Registry announced

An open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly share resources, as well as information about how those resources are used by educators in diverse learning environments across the Web.

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1st Sep 2010 - 31st Aug 2011

JISC/HE Academy OER phase 2 programme begins

Phase 2 of the HE Academy JISC UKOER programme focussed on developing collections, Cascading good practice and knowledge, and continued to investigate aspects of release.

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4th October 2010

UKOER Pilot programme support paper

Approaches to supporting open educational resources projects. paper by R. John Robetrtson, Sheila MacNeill, Phil Barker, Lorna Campbell and Li Yuan

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15th November 2010

Locate, Collate and Aggregate session at CETIS conference 2010

A session at the JISC CETIS Conference 2010.

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23rd February 2011

OER University inaugural meeting

A virtual collaboration of institutions committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit. The OER university aims to provide free learning to all students worldwide using OER learning materials with pathways to gain credible qualifications from recognised education institutions.

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31st Mar 2011 - 1st Apr 2011

OER Hack Days

A joint UKOLN/CETIS event for hacking content, systems and services for open educational resources

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9th May 2011

OER Technical Mini Projects

JISC provided CETIS with funding to commission a series of OER Technical Mini Projects to explore specific technical issues that have been identified by the community during CETIS events such as #cetisrow and #cetiswmd and which have arisen from the JISC / HEA OER Programmes.

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5th August 2011

Advances in Open Systems for Learning Resources

A CETIS workshop at the Repository Fringe event.

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17th Oct 2011 - 31st Oct 2012

JISC /HE Academy OER phase 3 programme

Phase 3 of the HE Academy/JISC UKOER programme, in partnership with the Open University’s SCORE Project.

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30th November 2011

CETIS Technical Synthesis UKOER phase 2

Series of blog posts by R. John Robertson providing a techniocal synthesis of projects in phase 2 of the HE Academy/JISC UKOER Programme.

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1st December 2011

JLeARN Experiment starts

An experimental node of the Learning Registry Project in the UK with a focus on content from the higher education and cultural sectors.

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6th December 2011

CETIS OER Visualisation Project

Project to visualise the outputs of the HE Academy/JISC Open Educational Resource Programmes.

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5th Mar 2012 - 10th Mar 2012

open education week

week of activities to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources is free an open to anyone.

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OER and JISC CETIS

CETIS Activities

CETIS scope X4L metadata guidelines

1st September 2002

The first full draft of the X4L Application Profile of the UK Common Metadata Framework was completed in early February 2003 and presented to the X4L...

CETIS Activities

Repositories Research Team

1st Jan 2005 - 14th Aug 2009

Established by JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme, the Research team was a collaboration between two JISC Innovation Support Centres...

CETIS Activities

Pedagogical Vocabularies Project

30th November 2005

JISC Pedagogical Vocabularies Project, managed by CETIS looked at the development and use of vocabularies in UK post-16 education sector.

CETIS Activities

CETIS codebash 4

7th Jun 2007 - 8th Jun 2007

4th codebash event which aimed to test the functional interoperability of systems and applications which implement a wide range of content related...

CETIS Activities

JISC CETIS OER briefing paper

1st September 2008

OERs: Opportunities and Challenges for HE highlighted the potential of OERs to overcome geographical, economic and demographic boundaries, to provide...

CETIS Activities

OER Programme Scoping Session at JISC CETIS conference 2008

25th November 2008

Session focussing on OER (open educational resources) provided an opportunity for giving input to the He Academy/JISC pilot UKOER programme by sharing...

CETIS Activities

An Ecological Approach To Repository And Service Interactions

9th January 2009

Report and case studies by members of the Repositories Research Group which investigated models of repository and service interaction and to consider...

CETIS Activities

OER Roundtable session at JISC CETIS conference 2009

10th November 2009

Session which discussed technical issues that UKOER projects had anticipated, encountered and possibly even resolved. Members of JISC, CETIS and...

CETIS Activities

Repositories and the Open Web

19th April 2010

A CETISROW event that considered how repositories fit with the web.

CETIS Activities

UKOER Pilot programme support paper

4th October 2010

Approaches to supporting open educational resources projects. paper by R. John Robetrtson, Sheila MacNeill, Phil Barker, Lorna Campbell and Li Yuan

CETIS Activities

Locate, Collate and Aggregate session at CETIS conference 2010

15th November 2010

A session at the JISC CETIS Conference 2010.

CETIS Activities

OER Hack Days

31st Mar 2011 - 1st Apr 2011

A joint UKOLN/CETIS event for hacking content, systems and services for open educational resources

CETIS Activities

OER Technical Mini Projects

9th May 2011

JISC provided CETIS with funding to commission a series of OER Technical Mini Projects to explore specific technical issues that have been identified...

CETIS Activities

Advances in Open Systems for Learning Resources

5th August 2011

A CETIS workshop at the Repository Fringe event.

CETIS Activities

CETIS Technical Synthesis UKOER phase 2

30th November 2011

Series of blog posts by R. John Robertson providing a techniocal synthesis of projects in phase 2 of the HE Academy/JISC UKOER Programme.

CETIS Activities

CETIS OER Visualisation Project

6th December 2011

Project to visualise the outputs of the HE Academy/JISC Open Educational Resource Programmes.

JISC Activities

JISC Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L)

1st Aug 2002 - 1st Sep 2006

Focused on the creation of reusable learning resources and tools to facilitate their production and management

JISC Activities

JORUM is launched

1st November 2002

A national repository to collect and share learning and teaching materials, primarily developed in UK Higher and Further Education, which has since...

JISC Activities

JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme

1st Feb 2003 - 31st Jan 2008

International programme with US partners which aimed to examine how technical developments in digital content could enhance the learning experience of...

JISC Activities

JISC Digital Repositories Programme

1st Jan 2005 - 30th Nov 2007

Aimed to bring together people and practices from across various domains (research, learning, information services, institutional policy, management...

JISC Activities

JISC Repositories Preservation Programme

1st Apr 2006 - 31st Mar 2009

Aimed to establish a network of digital resources and services to significantly improve content use and curation

JISC Activities

Repositories Roadmap

7th April 2006

Presented a vision for 2010 outlining technical, legal, cultural and policy aspects that needed to be addressed to acheivce a vision of open access...

JISC Activities

Sharing eLearning Content (SELC)report)

20th December 2007

Report summarising the findings from a range of JISC projects, with respect to the types of issue that were relevant to the development, use and...

JISC Activities

JISC RePRODUCE Programme

1st Feb 2008 - 31st Mar 2009

Aimed to encourage the re-use of high quality externally produced materials and to facilitate the transfer of learning content between institutions

JISC Activities

Good Intentions report

31st December 2008

Improving the Evidence Base in Support of Sharing Learning Materials. Focussed on open and community models of sharing

JISC Activities

JISC/HE Academy OER Pilot Programme begins

1st Feb 2009 - 20th Apr 2010

Aimed to make a significant volume of existing teaching and learning resources freely available online and licensed in such a way to enable them to be...

JISC Activities

Digital Repositories Roadmap review

5th April 2009

Review of original Roadmap by Rachel heery

JISC Activities

JorumOpen launches

19th January 2010

The national repository develops a parallel open area and is populated by UKOER projects. This is later incorporated into JORUM and loses the 'open'...

JISC Activities

OER Infokit launched

23rd June 2010

An accessible resource which aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning...

JISC Activities

JISC/HE Academy OER phase 2 programme begins

1st Sep 2010 - 31st Aug 2011

Phase 2 of the HE Academy JISC UKOER programme focussed on developing collections, Cascading good practice and knowledge, and continued to investigate...

JISC Activities

JISC /HE Academy OER phase 3 programme

17th Oct 2011 - 31st Oct 2012

Phase 3 of the HE Academy/JISC UKOER programme, in partnership with the Open University’s SCORE Project.

JISC Activities

JLeARN Experiment starts

1st December 2011

An experimental node of the Learning Registry Project in the UK with a focus on content from the higher education and cultural sectors.

Wider OER activities

MIT launches OCW

1st September 2002

MIT OpenCourseware is the best-known example of open courseware sharing and is the most copied institutional OER model, providinghe publication on the...

Wider OER activities

ccLearn launched

1st November 2002

the educational division of Creative Commons, was launched in 2007 and was dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open...

Wider OER activities

Creative Commons licence released

1st December 2002

Creative Commons’ first project, in December 2002, was the release of a set of copyright licences for public use. These machine-readable licenses are...

Wider OER activities

OECD study on OERs

25th May 2005

Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources - report published providing a history and considering benefits, sustainability...

Wider OER activities

OLCOS Roadmap

1st Jan 2006 - 1st Nov 2007

Open Education Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012 (Open eLearning Ciontent Observatory Series) conducted to provide decision makers with an...

Wider OER activities

Open University UK launches OpenLearn

1st October 2006

Aimed to make a selection of their materials available worldwide for free use by anyone and to build communities of learners and educators around the...

Wider OER activities

u-Now launched by Nottingham University UK

1st September 2007

u-Now is an Open Educational Repository which revealed an early adoption of openness for educational resources and early development of workflows and...

Wider OER activities

First Massive Online Open Course (MOOCS)

1st September 2008

Open courses using wikis and blogs began to emerge in the mid 2000s but the term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier

Wider OER activities

University of the People launched

1st September 2009

First tuition-free online university dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. Has support of academic leadership...

Wider OER activities

Learning Registry announced

21st July 2010

An open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers,...

Wider OER activities

OER University inaugural meeting

23rd February 2011

A virtual collaboration of institutions committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit. The OER university...

Wider OER activities

open education week

5th Mar 2012 - 10th Mar 2012

week of activities to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events...

CETIS Activities

JISC Activities

Wider OER activities

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