1. Simon Kear Learning Technologist spk7@le.ac.uk 0116 229 7548 What is an Open Educational Resource (OER)?

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 …

11. https://swww2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research- alliance/projects/otter/otter-images/iphone-sample.wmv

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 http://www.oercommons.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ And in the future? JorumOpen