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This survey was adapted from a North American Faculty OER Survey Toolkit for use in the Irish Higher Education context. It was used across the DOERs project partner sites to audit staff Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices awareness and practices. We encourage other institutions to adapt this tool to meet their needs.
These guides have been prepared by UNESCO, as part of its programme of support to governments and educational institutions in implementation of the UNESCO OER Recommendation.
The concept of open scholarship has radically altered the way in which academic research operates in Europe, providing as it does both opportunities and challenges for researchers. In addition, funders are increasingly demanding that researchers, must, as a pre-requisite to securing grant funding, have undertaken training in research ethics. Finally, there are increasing pressures on researchers to be aware of and comply with obligations under intellectual property and data protection law, and to ensure the proper management of their research data. This course seeks to provide researchers and research support staff with the tools necessary to navigate these issues.
This animation provides a short (2-minute) introduction to Open Education, focusing on the concepts of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP) for teaching and learning. The animation provides a short introduction to the online resource ‘Using OER and OEP for Teaching and Learning’ available at https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/resource-using-oer-and-oep-for-teaching-and-learning/.
‘Practicing what we preach’: an open resource on OER/OEP, Angelica Risquez, Catherine Cronin, Claire McAvinia and Celine Peignen
Open Education Now. The potential benefits of open education are often considered in three areas: expanding access to education, enhancing pedagogy, and advancing equity.
This Webinar Explores National Forum’s Open Licensing Toolkit as a recent resource for HE Sector. https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/open
The potential benefits of using open educational resources and practices (OER and OEP) in higher education include improving access, furthering equity and enhancing teaching, learning and assessment. The National Forum supports the use of OER and OEP in a range of ways (see www.teachingandlearning.ie/open).
Open Education Resources (OER’s) with Dr Tom Farrelly
The Go Open project is a collaborative project based in Dublin City University (DCU) and comprises team members from DCU Library, Open Education Unit and the Digital Learning Design Unit. The project aims to support the DCU Community to engage with open education practices in their teaching, research and support activities.
Adding creative commons licenses to your OER.
In this webinar, we will identify whether OERs were a solution or being used in the last year in education; and how OERs may be used in the future.
If based in NUI Galway, there is a a suite of OER publishing tools and platforms to create and promote your own open, free, and reusable OER learning materials. The aim is to provide access to OER creation and publishing for NUI Galway students and staff.
An EDTL webinar focusing on Considering Content & Activities
An EDTL project webinar detailing copyright law and open licenses for digital learning.
This guide has been developed in collaboration between the MU IUA Enhancing Digital Teaching and Learning Initiative and MU Library to provide an introduction to the benefits and challenges associated with finding, using and sharing OERs in Teaching, Learning and Assessment.
In this short guide, the authors aim to give you an introduction to the area of open education, so that you can engage with open education practices in your teaching and support activities and to Go Open!
Developing an open educational resource for open research: Protocol for the PaPOR TRAIL project
