The Centre for Academic Practice & Learning Enhancement (CAPLE) and Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS), at the University of Strathclyde are conducting a study about the involvement of the Library as an organizational unit, and of individual librarians and other information science specialists, in OER initiatives. OER (Open Educational Resources) are "digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research" (OECD, 2007).
This survey is open to any institution or initiative dealing with OER and/or open content for learning and teaching in an Higher Education context. This includes the creation and release of OER, its dissemination and promotion, the implementation of learning repositories or others management and publishing systems, the aggregation of open educational content, etc. Those projects focused solely on open educational practice are out the intended scope of this survey.
The survey should be answered by an individual OER initiative team member with an overview of current activity and the team composition and profiles. The survey instrument has 15 questions and the estimated time for completion is 15-20 minutes.
No personal data will be required, but you will be able to provide some basic information about your OER initiative if you wish. Participating organisations will be listed in the study report but responses are not connected to individual participants.
The results will be published in a report through JISC CETIS Open Educational Resources web page (http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/oer). If you want to receive a free PDF copy of the final report, please provide your email address at the end of the survey (your email will not be published or held beyond distribution of the survey results).
The survey is open for your feedback until Friday, November 4, 2011.
Thank you in advance for participating in this study, your contribution is very valuable to us.
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For further information, please contact:
Gema Bueno de la Fuente (Visiting Scholar from UC3M, Spain) (gema.bueno@strath.ac.uk), John R. Robertson (robert.robertson@strath.ac.uk) and Stuart Boon (stuart.boon@strath.ac.uk).
Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS) / Centre for Academic Practice & Learning Enhancement (CAPLE). University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK).
