1. CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open
Resource Environment - for Materials
“The UK must have a core of open access learning
resources organised in a coherent way, to support
on-line and blended learning by all higher education
institutions, and to make it more widely available in
non-HE environments.”
(Sir Ron Cooke, 2008)
CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
2. Introduction
• Contributors have/are making their teaching and training
resources available (images, videos, presentations, etc)
in collaboration with the CORE-Materials team
• Over 1,200 learning and teaching resources now for use,
sharing and re-purposing – with strategies for expansion
• Value-added to existing resources, which are promoted
worldwide and available via:
• the CORE-Materials website
• Web 2.0 file-sharing sites
• JorumOpen national repository
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
3. CORE-Materials COLLABORATIVE OPEN RESOURCES - FOR MATERIALS
CORE-Materials
Website
These resources
CORE
are subject to OPEN
Materials
Copyright
20 project partners …provide e-Learning Legal (IPR) and …enables release of OERs
from HE, FE, resources: videos, technical input from via a range of services
industry and images, case studies, CORE-Materials under Creative Commons
professional body… lectures, etc. project team… licenses
4. Sustainability (1)
‘Sustainability’ as a discussion topic running
constantly throughout the lifetime of CORE-Materials
– This helped identify early barriers to OER release / use,
and informed planning of project impact and development
Promotion of CORE-Materials through the national
Subject Centre: UKCME – Drawing on UKCME’s
identified community of users; Incorporating awareness
of OER issues into UKCME events and training courses
(targeted at New Lecturers, Student Representatives,
Post-Graduate Demonstrators, Programme Leaders)
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
5. Sustainability (2)
Sharing lessons learned; e.g. technical, legal,
institutional, evaluative
Discipline-specific CORE-Materials repository –
includes a user-interface with a faceted search facility
“TMS [in March 2010] suggest that, at the least, all U.S. materials
departments and societies should be aware of the products of CORE-
Materials and learn from their concept and processes. At the best,
there may be ways of collaborating that could benefit all parties."
Guidance documentation – (e.g. IPR, Consortium
Agreements, institution engagement, uploading, etc)
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
6.
7. Sustainability (3)
Promotion of added-value functions gained
from developing and using ‘open’ resources:
Resources shared via Web 2.0 file-sharing sites –
providing enhanced functionality and tracking of OERs
Portability of OERs – multi-file FlashTM resources can
be run independently on a user’s own system
Curriculum content – existing courses enhanced
and modules / programmes developed with OERs
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
9. Sustainability (4)
Highlighting benefits to both ‘communities
of practice’ and the HE sector / industry:
Resource Guides – developed in collaboration with the
subject community and institutional senior managers
“Don’t start by asking who will pay for your content, but ask who will
pay attention, who will trust you, who will follow you – and work with all
involved parties to convert that attention into income.” (Leonard, 2009)
Personal Learning Environments – demonstrating
resource collections and OERs for learners
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
10. In Summary
Focus on sustainability from the start (seeing it
similar to project dissemination and evaluation)
Look to share lessons learned – e.g. project
successes, outputs and outcomes – with others
Actively promote added-value features emerging
from the project to both existing and new users
Look to support communities of practice, and
partner institutions, in their OER release strategies
CORE - Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials
