OER Wales Cymru My Slides for Presentation to Universities Wales Vice Chancellors 5th Feb 2015

2. Background
Project Overview
Achievements
Next Steps
Proposal Extend to 2017

4. Promote OER
Flexible
Pathways
Improve Quality
of Learning &
Teaching
Outcomes
Enhance
partnerships &
Collaboration
Students as Co-
Creators
Welsh Medium
Materials
Promote Open
Licences
Embed Open
Practice
Support Staff

5. • Best OERs Across Wales
Showcase Portal
• Student Survival
• Students as Co-Creator
sMOOC
• Workshops
• Embed Open Practice
Network of Champions
• April 14th & 15th International Stage
OER15 Conference

10. “...I’ve learnt the
important things to do for
the University – on the
Financial and social side”

15. Champions
Network
Webinars &
Workshops
Showcase
Portal
Co-
ordination
Open
Education
Week
...and

16. OER15 Conference 14th & 15th April 2015
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
http://oer15.oerconf.org/

17. £150k
2
Years
2017
Wales as Open
Education
Nation

18. £150k over 2 Years
•Extend PM Contract
•Review
Showcase Portal
•Maintenance
•Social Media
sMOOC
•Delivery August 2015 and beyond
•Develop Other Versions
Embed OEP
•Co-ordinate Champions Network
•Workshops
•Yearly Conference

19. Showcase Portal
Maintenance
Social Media
Presence
Delivery of the
sMOOC
Co-ordination of
Champions
Network &
Activities
Further
Embedding of
OEP
Champions
Yearly
Conference
OER Strategic
Guidelines
Collaborative
OER Production
Underpinning
Open
Declaration
Goal

20. Debbie Baff
@debbaff
http://about.me/debbaff

21. Definition of OER
UNESCO Paris 2012
“ Teaching, learning and research materials in
any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in
the public domain or have been released
under an open licence that permits no-cost
access, use, adaption and redistribution by
others with no or limited restrictions”