1. What is an Open Educational Resource (OER)?
Simon Kear
Learning Technologist

2. An OER can be … A simple text or PDF file
A series of PowerPoint slides
A video
An audio file
A Second Life artefact
A self-contained XML site
And so on …

3. Example 1. Text: The dissertation proposal planner
Department of Politics and International Relations

7. Example 2. MUVEs: The Sami tent in Second Life
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
An environment-specific OER

9. Example 3. Video: Using a Micropipette
Virtual Genetics Education Centre, GENIE CETL
A first-class resource.
How about untethering it …

12. So which media format is most suitable?
Content
Delivery
Re-usability
Re-purposability
End-user

13. What is available to you today?
OER Commons
And in the future?
JorumOpen