Is this a 'Sustainable' Future?
Peter Reed
Learning Technologist
SOLSTICE Fellow
Edge Hill University
Encouragement and Initiatives for OER
Funding opportunities -
Reports & Outputs - 
Online innovation in HE (Cooke)
Demos: 'Edgeless University'
'Universities go online for millions'
Reform project
1 of 20 funded projects looking at repurposing & reusing existing learning materials
CPD module: 
Dyslexia & Specific Learning Difficulties in HE (Support Issues)
Project Director
Project Manager
Module Coordinator
Learning Technologist
Learning Technologist, Copyright & IPR
Non-heirarchical New Academic Team
Identification of life-cycle of reusable content
The 5 C's
Dr J. Loose
Psyche Project
Collect
Clear
Create
Critique
Conserve
Early on we set about the..
...and we liked John Loose's 5 C's
So what did we produce???
Barriers & Enablers to large scale engagement with OER
Existing good quality CC content...
Jorum 
BBC
Reluctant 'rights holders'

Google Advanced Search
Flickr
YouTube
OCW - Nottingham
Staff Development...
Digital Britain 

5 c's -


Collect
Clear
Create
Critique
Conserve
Copyright & QA measures....
OU have strict measures in place... 

Do you?
Dissemination....
External is easy
Internal more difficult

Institutional Repository?
     if not - cost, time, 
                 resources

Potential partnerships?
Once all the technological and even pedagogical issues are out of the way, we will still be faced with cultural, social and organisational factors that will determine the extent to which learning objects are actually used
"
(Mayes, 2008)
...Process more important than products
Future of OER engagement...
MIT
OU
Funded Projects
Champions
Receivers
Level of engagement
Engagement largely driven by business models and funded projects